Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court. Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia

"I'm going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone."

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...

🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday. With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.

Wisst ihr noch, die "Freiheitstrychler" aus der Pandemie, die sich für Freiheit einsetzen? Was machen die heute so? Sie reisen nach Moskau, um zu protestieren - und zwar gegen die Schweiz. Begleitet durch Russia Today.

Republik.ch trägt die finanziellen und rechtlichen Kosten/Risiken. Aber bitte spendet unbedingt auch an meine CO-Autor:innen der #Palantir-Recherche des WAV Recherchekollektiv, die alles initiiert haben! wav.info/support Für weiteren demokratie-relevanten Investigativjournalismus.

This looks really cool!

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

In Gewebeproben Alexej Nawalnys ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Gift Epibatin gefunden worden. Für mehrere europäische Staaten steht damit fest: Der Putin-Kritiker wurde vor zwei Jahren in einem russischen Lager vergiftet.

Frontex arbeitet an einer „KI“, die zu Abschiebungen beraten soll. Da zeigen sich die unzureichenden Stellen der KI-Verordnung: Der Einsatz stelle kein hohes Risiko dar, so die Behörde netzpolitik.org/2026/migrati...

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

Die Moskauer Führung schottet die russische Gesellschaft weiter ab, nun bekommen das auch Studierende und Wissenschaftler zu spüren. Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst ist jetzt faktisch in Russland verboten.

Either he is a bad liar or dangerously deluded, and either one should be a sign that OpenAI should not be given the power, data, and control over our lives it is being given.

I am not sure if it's GenAI proliferation or smth else but I have started to increasingly write notes/reviews/etc in plain txt files rather than anything else. Now I am wondering if there is anything nicer looking/a bit "extra" compared to the plain text editor? Has to be Linux friendly. And no AI.

🔥🔥🔥It's official: Der Krieg der Tech-Autoritären Oligarchie gegen die Medien hat eine neue Stufe erreicht: Palantir klagt gegen uns. Sie wollen ein Recht auf Gegendarstellung. Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.

Wer noch nicht und wer kann : abonnieren @republik.ch online 🇨🇭investigativ, unabhängig und lassen sich nicht manoeuvrieren und @adfichter.bsky.social folgen

Der Konzern #Palantir geht gegen das Schweizer Magazin „Republik“ vor. Das hatte in Recherchen nachgezeichnet, warum die Systeme des Unternehmens problematisch für Staaten und deren Souveränität sind. Das Magazin will sich von der Klage nicht einschüchtern lassen. netzpolitik.org/2026/david-g...

grok is submitting edits to itself on grokipedia. it's not the biggest fan of its own suggestions!

ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/chat...

Re this: No tape released yet, just a picture of the bedroom that was secretly recorded. Today, Magyar posted a video explaining what he thinks the recording shows and how it came about (his ex attended a Tisza party after they separated; one thing led to another). It was a trap, he says.

Hungarian politics is such a wild mess, I don’t know how explain the everyday stuff happening in this country to normal people. 59 days to the election.

Proposals to get kids off social media arise from an understandable desire to keep youngsters safe and healthy. The problem is, bans will do more harm than good: econ.st/3O7ZSQV

One of my favourite events of the year! Learn about new tools/methods/people and hack on some dataset/tool/project 😍

Please... do not do any of this... @evystadium.bsky.social has more. full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Deepfake pornography isn’t going away just because we are passing laws and taking down a couple of big websites. Our new pre-print, led by @aedcv.bsky.social suggests that the sharing of this material continued to prosper even after platform and policy shocks. arxiv.org/abs/2602.02754

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Generative AI is a machine built to destroy knowledge: «The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.»

This could not be more timely, given the upcoming referendum on PSM funding in Switzerland. I'm very happy that our article on the (non-)crowding-out of private media by SRG's online news offer was just published in the International Journal on Media Management (open access).

New on @indicator.media: I found 4,431 new ads for AI nudifiers on Meta ran since my last audit in December. I'm losing my mind here.

"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.

By far not the worst thing happening in the world these days. And yet highlights the levels of impunity.

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025" doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social. We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses. Here are some of the things we learned:

🎉 Today's the day! Notifications for #ICA26 are now being sent out via email! Please be patient & be sure to check your spam folder too. You can also check your results by logging into the ScholarOne website and clicking the Messages tab. buff.ly/Lm6odET

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

🖋️ Algorithmic biases Aleksandra Urman (@aurman21.bsky.social) & Mykola Makhortykh “Algorithmic biases are particularly concerning [...] due to their implications for unequal access to politically relevant information and unfair outcomes for different providers of political information”

Na da kann sich Donald Trump mit Wladimir Putin zusammen tun. Der will nämlich die Ukraine selbst regieren.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.