Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense. Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS. Integrity black hole. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Google's AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. But the story's not true.

This coverage also finally moves past claims of “unprecedented” — NONE of this is unprecedented. The only way to see it as such is to ignore the rest of the world, much less history.

Happy to help @gregbarradale.bsky.social with this story for @bigissue.com. Is it too much to expect platforms' AI summaries to at least get the big things right? Have a read.

This is so preposterous I could imagine Banksy staging it as part of the piece itself. Alas, I doubt that’s the case.

LinkedIn + UK universities = institutional isomorphism

“Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...

How does credibility work on personal channels such as WhatsApp? Find out here 👇

On #WhatsApp, labeling a message as coming from a respected outlet like #BBC News can make false information seem as credible as true news. Vaccari, Chadwick, Hall & Lawson explore this effect through an experiment with 2,580 UK users. doi.org/10.1177/1077... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

Blue Note legend Horace Silver was born on this day September 2, 1928. Stream our playlist "Horace Silver: The Finest" bluenote.lnk.to/HoraceSilver... Pre-order the pianist’s previously unissued 1965 live album “Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse” out 10/24 horacesilver.lnk.to/SilverInSeat...

I was happy to be interviewed by @robynvinter.bsky.social for this @theguardian.com In Focus feature. It presents important, often overlooked, facts of the case while also reflecting on the bigger picture for media and politics. Have a read: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Eloquent article by @sivav.bsky.social on the cultural revolution going on in US universities: newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Here's the excellent original investigative report from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social at Reuters www.reuters.com/investigates...

"According to Meta’s 200-page internal policy seen by Reuters, titled 'GenAI: Content Risk Standards', the controversial rules for chatbots were approved by Meta’s legal, public policy and engineering staff, including its chief ethicist." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy to help Matt and NS with trying to get to the bottom of what has been going on here. Have a read of the article, consider the evidence presented in it, and you’ll see.

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

Social media giant Meta announced today that it will stop running political, electoral or social issue advertising in the EU from October, instead of complying with the bloc's transparency rules for political advertising. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

It was with overwhelming sadness that I read this morning that Professor Rodney Barker recently died. He was my PhD supervisor at the LSE and the smartest, wittiest, kindest, and most supportive academic I have known. He changed my life. A personal note: www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2025/7/...

A great initiative, a long time coming. I hope the framework that evolves is more holistic and includes digital media literacy and hard thinking about the impact of today's information environment on our new young citizens. That one paragraph (19) is doing heavy lifting! www.gov.uk/government/p...

I wonder if it’s possible to place a bet that TNT Sports’ coverage next year will be worse than ITV’s? What are the odds? I certainly won’t be paying £31.99 a month (£384 annually!!!).

Great thread. I've never really cycled other than as a commuter. But I've watched it for at 15-20 years. I even went to Paris for the finish once because it's so immense. Always inspired by the TV coverage. I can't beleieve it won't be on anymore. It's a crime!

A long, long time ago I was deep into racing cycling. Back then, at this time of year, I’d spend almost every day tearing around the North Yorkshire moors and coast with a small group of similarly mad close mates. I seemed to be quite good at going up hills. Given the terrain, I needed to be. (1/?)

Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information. We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇

A great album. Especially in the summertime. With a beverage.

A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It must be great to be one of those academics that continually says there’s nothing to see here, it’s all exaggerated, it’s hype, nothing’s wrong, you’ve all got it wrong, everything’s fine, you’re looking at the wrong evidence etc etc.

🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to field a team and analyze a data set that social media platforms had turned over: several hundred gigs of data chronicling a multi-year effort to divide American society *and* interfere in an American election www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation." Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors."

This was a logical development for the ideological platform mogul. Embedding biased and prejudiced AI, which was allegedly deliberately trained that way, or at the very least was negligently non-guardrailed, is the logical next phase in the decline of the general, "neutral" platform.

Now published! @leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media. Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

Forgot I'd written this. Funny it has resurfaced today, because I'm speaking about this tomorrow at QMiP!

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

Nice, oblique observation of the power of media logic. (from David Nicholls, The Understudy)

Reasons to avoid academia edu, number ∞

The Meta AI app continues to be full of people who are accidentally posting private conversations publicly. I saw posts sharing phone numbers, email addresses, medical questions, a teen describing her crush, child custody questions. www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

End game imminent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you want an example of the failings of Community Notes, look no further than Musk spreading misinfo in the hours after the Minnesota shooting. The shooter has now been IDed as a Trump supporter. There is no community note on Musk or the original post he quotes.

After many years of reading, I am pleased to say I wrote my first (music) piece for The Quietus. Even more pleased it was for such a beautiful record that traverses the realm between man and place where different universal laws apply

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

it is Illegal to not enjoy this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So much will be said—rightly so—about Wilson's genius and massive influence, but here he is writing in 2016, in a very personal way, about his childhood experiences. The headline is flippant but the piece is anything but medium.com/cuepoint/get...

"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan RIP Brian Wilson

For fun, I asked an LLM to grade an undergrad dissertation (thesis). LLM gave a very high score and wrote 140 words of feedback about the excellent discussion of New Labour managerial reforms. Which is great, except the dissertation was about polarized content on social media.

🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...

I love when my most off the cuff, flip statements are chosen as quotes in interviews. “If you’re looking to destroy something, if you want to win the chess game, you can just knock the chessboard off the table and then punch the person in the face, and then I guess you kind of won,” Shepperd said.

'Members of the Russell Group benefited from a total of £2.8m worth of funding from Meta last year, and £7.7m over the past four years. Imperial College alone has taken £3.6m from Mark Zuckerberg’s companies since 2021.' 1/2