This is absolutely nuts Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

“Given the severity of the threats social media companies pose to democracy and fundamental rights, policy responses cannot merely tinker around the edges,” writes Christine Galvagna. The EU must act now—fund decentralized, public service social media to protect democracy and digital rights.

For years, I’ve been obsessed with a number. What’s the #? It’s the amount Meta earns per year from scam ads. Thanks to @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, we know it: $16 billion. Our free @indicator.media Briefing looks at what needs to happen now that we know the number: indicator.media/p/briefing-m...

"the law does not self-enforce. the law does not self-execute. there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Everyone is mocking DJ Carey, but no one is blaming the mastermind of his cunning plan.

Fantastic expose from my friend George Turner in the Guardian. So good to see George back in print. The two of us also have a *very* exciting project due to hit the airwaves in late 2026... 🫣 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Devastating news. RTÉ's documentaries have always been one of the outstanding aspects of the broadcaster's outputs. Production will continue with outside commissions replacing the in-house team, but still.

I've not read report yet, but Witness.org is working to address the existential risk of GenAI to reporting on war crimes, drone attacks, human rights violations, etc. Part of the answer is more contextual info in videos - e.g. weather, neighbouring buildings - to corroborate www.gen-ai.witness.org

ReformUK can only dream that one day they will achieve this level of petty sectarian bigotry

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

Dear #EUpolicy & #internetpolicy sky. Does anyone have a link to, or can direct towards any policy papers regarding technical standards for labelling and watermarking Gen Ai videos and images for VLOPs?

Watch how Irish political parties try to pivot and capture the Mamdani social media “magic” while studiously ignoring the underlying policies that made his campaign so appealing to voters

The survey also found a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime respondents had experiened here. And at what, then, drives that perception that town is not safe. 5/

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Data centres are to energy as Airbnbs are to housing. They devour the supply, inflate the costs, and destabilise the entire system. Societal vampires.

Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker. It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.

Google Sheets is actually quite similar to “Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark”, because in both cases if you go near the dates you die.

RIP to Richard "Dick" Bruce Cheney, whose accomplishments include serving as both the 46th vice president and 43rd President of the United States simultaneously.

“Learning the native language of this country, the near-extinction of which was part of the brutal suppression of English colonialism, is basically like joining the Taliban” is quite the take.

Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker. It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.

The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister. www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

And the Venn diagram of people poasting: 1. “Tear gas is banned by XYZ treaty” (usually referring to the wrong treaty) 2. ICE use of tear gas is bad 3. “Pepper spray is great and you all need to have it in England”

Almost two years to the day since another cyclist was killed at the intersection at Dolphin's Barn Bridge. In both instances, the cyclists were killed by a truck. RIP. #speirgorm #ireland #cyclist

Really important advice. And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block. "Well, it could be true!" It's not. "Well, you can imagine." Nope. "Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest www.404media.co/the-future-o...

"Lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they were living their lives quietly before migrants arrived"

"I heard there was a knifing recently". Yes, 11 people were injured in a mass stabbing incident in the UK on Saturday, November 1st. Meanwhile, in America on the same day...

Data Protection Commission beware: Poachers aren't always the best gamekeepers www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Robbing the French Crown Jewels is definitely an automatic level upgrade, plus it unlocks several parts of the skill tree, and new outfits.

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

New Garda statement on Drogheda says the IPAS fire was started deliberately “Following initial reports of the fire being started by the discharge of fireworks, investigations by An Garda Síochána to date indicate that the fire was started deliberately by person or persons unknown.”

Interesting the role of young men on Twitter and TikTok here. Much more research required into precise pathways. Appears to be a similar group to those who are anti immigrant and believe conspiracies in previous research

I've completed an analysis of the spoiled voter in the link below. This is a voter who will invariably come into play in the future. kevcunningham.substack.com/p/who-are-th...

I’ve lost count of the number arson attacks on IPAS centres or even buildings *suspected* of being IPAS. Between 2018-2023 there were at least 25. I suspect the number in the last 2 years may be close to that. We’re not lucky it’s a minor miracle that no one has killed yet

October 31st/November 1st

Ahead of Ireland’s presidential elections, ISD & H&CC found 172 false/misleading posts, as well as 43 AI-gen ones including a deepfake claiming Catherine Connolly’s withdrawal & the election’s cancellation. The brief urges tackling both harmful content & the algorithms that amplify it. More below.

To expand on why this is a ridiculous claim: the Netherlands uses all paper ballots marked with a red pencil. Voting and counting are decentralized and conducted by volunteers; anyone who wants to can come watch. Among the most trustworthy elections in the world. www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/...

The 🇳🇱 elections were not the first (or the last) w AI generated images. But the combination of AI content, systematic far-right circulation, and use of chabots for vote advice was a new ‘AI cocktail’. Comments in @evahartog.bsky.social @pieterhaeck.bsky.social story www.politico.eu/article/elec...

Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle a case that Texas brought against it for allegedly tracking and collecting user data and geolocation without proper consent. www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/...

Former Irish PM Leo Varadkar told @euractiv.com he regrets not challenging Viktor #Orbán on #LGBTQI rights. He’s not alone — leaders have long avoided taking him on, always finding a reason not to. For Varadkar, it was the Brexit deal. For others, it’s something else 🤐

Fascinating new details on Intellexa, the Israeli spyware firm that used Ireland as a financial headquarters for a number of years, including its registration of a Chinese-Hong Kong subsidiary. The Irish subsidiary has been largely dormant since I reported on its activities in 2022/2023.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

Imagine sucking at your job so badly you lose your title of "national nepo-baby".