The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway! With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Remember, whenever Trump does something like this: This is government by and for the trolls. He knows exactly what he's doing.

One time when Michael Shellenberger wrote some lies about me one of his followers said that he’d like to throw acid on my face. He’s clearly a very peace loving man. (He was given the chance to denounce the threat and did not.)

In a world of endless raw footage and self-proclaimed experts, how can you tell the difference between legit investigators with OSINT chops and click farmers or disinformers? I spoke to @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @capteurso.bsky.social for some tips: www.thewayfinder.net/p/they-kille...

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel

I am very tired of watching videos of federal officials killing people.

Apparently a glitch. www.pcmag.com/news/gmail-g...

Is anyone else suddenly getting all of their promotions and updates tabs on gmail routed to primary?!

Amidst the madness (✊to our MN friends), it's easy to lose track of the impact of #censorship on #science #STM #R&D. @defendresearch.bsky.social kicks off 2026 convo series w/ experts @penamerica.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Sign up for Feb 12 - SHARE!

The Trump Administration tried to deport Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk & other foreign students for their speech. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u... I called this out in a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last April, and the Republicans mocked me for it (see next post)

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids,” @ninajankowicz.com www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began. From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began. From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

Rep. Self has a history of very inept comparisons; he bungled an attempt to compare me to Goebbels in an April Congressional hearing last year www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

"How many more women and girls need to bear their scars to the world before someone with real power in the tech industry stands up for us?" — @ninajankowicz.com

Macron didn't concede anything in private messages to Trump, but the US Right is so high on delusional hubris that even basics of diplomatic back channels are useless as means to achieve stable outcomes. How do you de-escalate with a US government that is obsessed with performative escalation?

Oh my god, it’s just because he likes how it looks, isn’t it?

Wrote a long piece about why (almost) nobody's addressed deepfake sexual abuse, and how we, the pissed off masses, can dismantle the infrastructure behind it www.thewayfinder.net/p/i-never-wa...

I guess "presidential diplomacy" in the National Securityy Strategy actually means "threatening our centuries-old allies with what amounts to economic sanctions until they give us the land we want" To be clear: this is what Putin would try to do if the Russian economy were worth anything

Grok made "the world less safe, less fair & perhaps even as unpleasant as a fascist-styled, ketamine-addled rich-kid dipshit in cheese hat dancing while the world burns, if one could imagine such an awful thing." The hilarious, trenchant @vanbadham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another strong piece of evidence that we've crossed the rubicon into autocracy. (I made that assertion publicly in April, and it grows truer by the day.) Echoes of a similar search against disinfo researcher @buziashvili.bsky.social in the Republic of Georgia. www.occrp.org/en/news/geor...

Glad @americansunlight.org's research with @indicator.media has been cited in @theguardian.com, along w my comment on the infrastructure of deepfakes. I've included some of the rest of my comment below - "if a man can’t undress me without my consent on the street, he can’t do it online either." 🙅🏻‍♀️

Starmer vows action against Elon Musk's X: "The actions of Grok and X are disgusting... We're absolutely determined to take action... We're not going to back down. They must act. We will take the necessary measures. We will strengthen existing laws.. This is weaponising images of women & children."

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

I wonder if Jenin Younes told Jon Stewart about how she did interrogations for Jim Jordan’s Weaponization committee of academics accused of being part of a “censorship industrial complex” that never existed. I wonder if she told him that Jordan then lied about what he heard in those interviews.

As an author & researcher, I spend a ton of time alone on my computer. It can be really isolating. When I went to an #iceoutforgood protest, I was reminded of how important it is to connect with people IRL. Ideas & resources for connecting in your community: www.thewayfinder.net/p/the-restor...

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.

ICE could start by taking a harder look at its own ranks. Here’s a thread of CBP/ICE officers who have been arrested for sex crimes while serving as federal law enforcement. bsky.app/profile/paca...

One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Let’s be clear: the UK is weighing a ban on X for deepfake sexual abuse. Musk’s opposition has nothing to do with defending speech. It’s about defending sexual abuse and attempting to avoid culpability for his role in not only allowing, but *monetizing* it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dis his father teach him to shout "fucking bitch" at women?

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

I've been testing Grok vs. ChatGPT and how they compare when generating deepfakes. - ask the chatbot to search the web for photos of me and then regenerate me in a bikini: Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses - upload a photo of myself (not id'ing as a public figure): Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses

That heaviness you feel after events like yesterday is real. We've all accumulated a lot of mental and emotional weight in the first year of Trump's disastrous presidency. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

I need the giant, hidden, multi-board whiteboard that Carol has in Pluribus

I have been bereft about Renee Good's murder by ICE, far outside the bounds of the law. I have no comforting words. Things are very bad. And two people have been shot in Portland today -- by border agents. A thread on Trump supercharging the militarized police state & why resistance is essential:

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Nothing says “we love free speech” like withdrawing from organizations that seek to protect it!!! 🙃🙃🙃🙃

The Trump Administration, which claims to care about free speech, has just withdrawn the US from: -a multilateral organization that counters adversarial hybrid threats, among them disinformation -a coalition of 42 govts "working to advance free expression" online along with 64 other intl orgs.