Book launch! Two weeks today at King's (The Strand) - me and Tom in conversation about #DictatingReality (and hopefully some copies of the book). More details and registration here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dicta...

Podcast on #DictatingReality with the excellent Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social speaking to Tom & I on everything from Orban's counterfeit public sphere to India's Godi media newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-re...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Shock? But this is what Orban has been doing for the last 15 years. It’s more of a shock that he didn’t take control of Blikk earlier #dictatingreality

'The Fourth Estate will not survive unless defended' - interview Tom and I did with Shamsuddoza Sajen at Bangladesh's Daily Star on Dictating Reality www.thedailystar.net/opinion/inte...

How news is being used by states to create parallel realities - by me and Tom Colley for KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...

How do world leaders use the news to determine their own narratives & how does that shape the 'truth'? Dr Martin Moore @kcl-spe.bsky.social & Dr Thomas Colley @warstudieskcl.bsky.social whose new book explores this topic, share their thoughts for #OurDividedPlanet ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...

Today is official publication day! Dictating Reality is now out cup.columbia.edu/book/dictati...

Hot off the press! DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS, by Martin Moore and Thomas Colley. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/3ddh79yn @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

'Press’s crimes ruined lives, but not those of the papers’ bosses' - link to the piece I wrote for The Observer published yesterday #phonehacking observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

After phone hacking - what happened next - me for The Observer (will post link when I find it)

Alphabet, Meta, ABC and CBS have together now paid out over $80m to Trump in order to settle law suits they would have won in court. And Trump has built up a vast crypto fortune to fund more anti-media cases www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

First copies of Dictating Reality have just arrived! #newbook

On Bolsonaro's alternative information ecosystem and why so many Brazilians are living in a parallel reality - by me and Tom Colley - theconversation.com/why-brazilia... - based on research for our forthcoming book Dictating Reality (CUP) cup.columbia.edu/book/dictati...

"Bolsonaro showed how malleable the new digital information environment could be for those who want to construct alternate realities." @martinjemoore.bsky.social and Thomas Colley, authors of DICTATING REALITY. @columbiaup.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-brazilia...

Why Brazilians have been so divided in their reaction to Bolsonaro’s conviction - new article by me and @ThomasColley for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-brazilia...

Heading to Brussels next week for big EU digital policy conference: www.wik.org/en/events/ev...

A fundamental challenge for the BBC is threading itself into the lives of the next generation. Why? Because, as I set out in my chapter for 'The BBC: After the Licence Fee' 🧵:

Out now! Important new book on 'The BBC: After the Licence Fee?' edited by John Mair, Andrew Beck and Janine Chandler - with contributions by Lord (Tony) Hall, Prof John Curtice, me & 20+ others www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-AFTER-LI...

"Compelling and persuasive....A valuable primer for our dark times."-Luke Harding Out this Fall but available now to order: DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL NEWS by @martinjemoore.bsky.social & Thomas Colley. Use the code CUP20 & save 20% tinyurl.com/2743z4yx @columbiaup.bsky.social

Can Google still justify crawling all online content by fair use and value-added if, rather than providing snippets to promote click-through, it gives people an AI-generated summary? And doesn't the publication of the summary turn it into a publisher (with associated liabilities)?

My column in today's FT: returning to a regular theme, our entry into a 'post-TV' era and the emergence of the first 'post-TV' politicians: who are better at performing a different type of authenticity:

Lead story on @thetimes.com (digital edition) today looks like it’s about Blair’s Net Zero warning, but text is about children learning to play the recorder. Cock up or hack?

Antitrust ruling vs Google ads presents damning evidence of anti-competitive behaviour. Eg Last Look which let Google's AdX “open the envelope for the winning bid, know what the winning bid [was], and be able . . . to bid after everybody else" (p.35) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Will Liz Truss’ plan to start ‘her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform’ (reported in The Times today) last as long as a lettuce? Or should we be looking at dairy products for this one?

Academic jobs (UK) skeet - AI+ fellowships at King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

Governments have re-learnt the value of state propaganda and mass censorship, even in a world of information abundance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

This is such an important point about our lack of shared realities from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, and fascinating data on media consumption fragmentation since 2008 (& it would be great to see the raw data) www.ft.com/content/bbc8...

The key line here - and we've already seen this in a host of other countries - is that the Trump admin 'are effectively institutionalizing disinformation' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

At the same time as China spends billions on international news (infrastructure & content) and RT/Sputnik spread Kremlin propaganda across the global south, so the Trump admin guts VOA and does its utmost to delegitimize America's voice abroad #wilfulUSdamage

Media dependency theory suggests that the more we rely on media, the more important it becomes to us. Should we now add AI dependency theory? And what if our politicians - like Peter Kyle - become dependent on AI to govern?

Just read that a Soviet soldier wrote graffiti on Immanuel Kant’s grave at the end of WW2: “Now you understand the world is material” #philosophicalgraffiti

Reinventing journalism: from man bites dog to dog shoots man

Russian state media’s handbrake turn. ‘Russia’s interests coincide with those of the US…’ Zhuravlyov says, ‘against Europe’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/w...

It's always good to see evidence that re-establishes a sense of reality (chart from Martin Wolf's @FT op.ed. today)

With the announcement of ex-Fox News host Dan Bongino as FBI Dep-Director it seems as though we need a daily Trump Administration-Fox News revolving door tally www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

It's hard to see the point of Meta's Oversight Board when they're not even consulted on changes as significant as this www.ft.com/content/64f7...

The speed with which the state-media-tech complex is coalescing in the US is breathtaking. Fox News has been heading in this direction for a while, but will any tech giants step up and assert the importance of their independence from government? www.foxnews.com/media/lara-t...

Trying to get my head around the implications of a political leader casting their Cabinet on the basis of whether they create good content. Policy by likes and views? www.wired.com/story/trump-...

While Becca Lewis' piece on the roots of Silicon Valley technofascism is compelling, wasn't the chauvinism and misogyny she finds typical of 1990s corporate America? The tech distinctiveness was the Ayn-Randian cult of the entrepreneur www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

There are few quicker ways to undermine the credibility of these US international media services. At exactly the time they need credibility vs CGTN, RT, PressTV and other outlets www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

Yet another NGN settlement without exposure. Will now have to wait and see if Prince Harry does the same with Associated Newspapers

Am wondering whether UK government decision to implement university free speech law connected to Trump/Musk effect

What a fabulous list from @tarlachmc.bsky.social of materials about EU and international human rights law on free expression, media, and Internet freedoms. I love when experts share their resource lists like this! Thank you, Tarlach! www.ivir.nl/digitalshelv...

Great letter www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães. www.techpolicy.press/meta-is-not-...

Meta's decision to end its 3rd party fact checking programme (starting in US) will have a devastating effect on nascent independent intl orgs. Apart from the $100m Meta says it contributed between 2016-2022, these organisations' model relied on FB/Insta collaboration (see Belair-Gagnon et al, 2023)

Who does the EU’s research on the Romania election TikTok posts and data (given the retention order and requirement for transparency via the DSA)? Does the EU farm it out to a university research centre? Or to EU Disinfo Lab?

The Murdoch children started prepping the PR strategy for after their father’s death having watched the episode of Succession where the patriarch dies (NYTimes writes). Led to the ‘Succession memo’. Literally life imitating art

Great to see sense of urgency abt this from chair of House of Lords Comms Comm'ee - tho her call to govt ought to include easier access for news outlets to charitable status #cjp

This is v useful when teaching about network effects, but what happened between 14-29 October?