Georg #Spöttle, een prominente politieke figuur, vaak beschreven als top adviseur & belangrijke opinievormer voor de Hongaarse premier #Orbán, is ontmaskerd als een buitenlandse russische agent. Zijn contactpersoon blijkt kolonel Oleg #Smirnov van de #GRU van #Rusland te zijn..

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

Signal? Well, at least the Trump administration was careful enough to refrain from using WhatsApp for sharing classified information. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p... @cnn.com

American #BigTech can be bought for election interference, hide how algorithms manipulate public debate and hardly care about privacy. Now tech moguls align with autocrats, things can only get worse. Time for Europe to break free. You can help: european-alternatives.eu #DigitalSovereignty #EUtech

American #BigTech can be bought for election interference, hide how algorithms manipulate public debate and hardly care about privacy. Now tech moguls align with autocrats, things can only get worse. Time for Europe to break free. You can help: european-alternatives.eu #DigitalSovereignty #EUtech

Suspicious drones were again spotted over military bases and critical infrastructure in northern Germany, according to WDR, NDR and SZ. And apparently, they were not taken down. Is Germany even taking this seriously? www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

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Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”

By siding with Russia and betraying the West, not Ukraine but only Trump's USA is risking further escalation of an already devastating war that will have long-lasting effect on Ukraine and the entire West. #StandWithUkraine

Why are Western leaders posting their displeasure with Trump's betrayal of the free world on X? Time for them to set an example, and stop associating themselves with Trump's digital wight-wing riot squad that X has become under Musk. Europe can do better. #twexit www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The entire West should be thanking Ukraine to defend our shared democratic values and sovereignty of its countries against Russian aggression. Ukraine is the battlefield where Ukrainian soldiers and civilians pay the ultimate price. The very least we can do is provide all resources they need.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Hoewel Sywert cs de beoogde winst alsnog moeten afdragen (aan de stichting), stelt de rechter ook vast dat ze wel gelijk hadden dat de staat wist dat ze in zee ging met een (commerciële) BV. Kortom, de burger is niet bedonderd, maar slecht vertegenwoordigd. www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-...

Platformen prediken neutraliteit en propageren vrijheid van meningsuiting. Hun algoritmen bepalen echter wat jij wel of niet te zien krijgt, en sturen daarmee het narratief op verzoek van de hoogste bieder. #Bigtech is niet tegen censuur, maar strijdt voor het monopolie daarop.

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Tamelijk bizar; ik vroeg DeepSeek (de Chinese ChatGPT) iets over Oeigoeren. Vervolgens geeft ‘ie uitgebreid antwoord over o.a. mensenrechtenschendingen en detentiekampen, maar dan plotseling verwijdert ‘ie het antwoord en zegt ‘ie ‘Let’s talk about something else’.

Zorgen over nieuwe wind op sociale media: 'Monopolie van big tech' @nieuws.nos.nl nos.nl/artikel/2553...

Platformen prediken neutraliteit en propageren vrijheid van meningsuiting. Hun algoritmen bepalen echter wat jij wel of niet te zien krijgt, en sturen daarmee het narratief op verzoek van de hoogste bieder. #Bigtech is niet tegen censuur, maar strijdt voor het monopolie daarop.

Oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid: vertrek van de sociale media van Big Tech! | @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/op...

Het is eigenlijk bedenkelijk dat de overheid X nog verkiest boven serieuze alternatieven als BlueSky. Het zou weg moeten blijven van een platform waar desinformatie, haat en discriminatie niet worden bestreden maar aangemoedigd en algoritmen worden ingezet naar de politieke voorkeur van de eigenaar.

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Opinie: Laten we onbetrouwbare bigtechbedrijven volledig uit Europa weren

This is who Elon Musk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

The Guardian view on digital media: the case for better regulation must be made www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @theguardian.com

Heel goed, Brabants Dagblad / @brabantsdagblad.bsky.social‬ nu ook te vinden op Bluesky. Nu alleen nog de Bluesky-deelknop toevoegen aan de artikelen. www.bd.nl/brabant/brab...

#Advocatie: Het aantal SLAPP-zaken (Strategic lawsuits against public participation) neemt in Europa gestaag toe. Vooral journalisten en mediabedrijven zijn het doelwit, maar ook advocaten krijgen er mee te maken. www.advocatie.nl/actueel/slap... #SLAPP

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Het is eigenlijk bedenkelijk dat de overheid X nog verkiest boven serieuze alternatieven als BlueSky. Het zou weg moeten blijven van een platform waar desinformatie, haat en discriminatie niet worden bestreden maar aangemoedigd en algoritmen worden ingezet naar de politieke voorkeur van de eigenaar.

Heeft discriminatie een gezicht gekregen, of hebben deze NSC'ers gewoon nu pas hun ogen schoongeveegd? Ook goedemorgen. www.telegraaf.nl/video/194868...

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

CNN: Elon Musk expands his empire of misinformation edition.cnn.com/2024/10/15/b...

Don’t rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth | Carole Cadwalladr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk Column by Jonathan Freedland in #theGuardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For a trading nation to leave its biggest & closest trading partner, only harming its own economy. It didn’t limit migration or get meaningful control. And again a migration crisis is made up to divert attention from economic & political failures. So 2016. www.ft.com/content/3210...

Meta: Thank you for letting us earn money by invading your privacy unlawfully all those years, but now the network & content you have built on our platforms are taken hostage: Pay a ransom or surrender your privacy, or else you can kiss your network & content goodbye.

For my British followers, does this headline in a Dutch newspaper need a translation? Seksschandalen Britse Conservatieven ’erger dan Sodom en Gomorra’ www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/79765...

Greed vs. Democracy. Rather than sharing profits with news outlets and offering users access to actual news, Meta chooses to block links to news and to risk #fakenews to overflow its platforms. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/canada-meta-news-ban-facebook-fake?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Why is Spain’s inflation so much lower than the UK’s? Because it stood up to business | Carsten Jung https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/spain-inflation-lower-bank-england-interest-rates?CMP=share_btn_tw

Breaking news: A grand jury has indicted former president Donald Trump for a raft of alleged crimes stemming form his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. It is the third time since March that the former president has been indicted. Read more: https://wapo.st/3KnoeBm

#August1stTweetOutDay is a good day to post my first, ehhh, skeet here on Bluesky. Is it really skeet?