Excited to be back at @carnegieendowment.org for this chat with @verambergen.bsky.social about The Information Animal - should be fun! If you’re in DC on November 5, please come. carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/... And with that, see y’all in a couple weeks!

I’ll be taking a bit of a doomscrolling detox. It’s an experiment, maybe I’ll write about it. For work things, LinkedIn will be alive, along with email. See you in a couple weeks!

A big thanks to @milkepescs.bsky.social for having me on The Gist - and for remembering all the stats! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Aw, thanks, @jammaj.bsky.social! Hadn't got to posting here yet. I'm experimenting with content forms. So if you're open to attempts to share thinking about the info environment, perhaps of questionable quality, I'm your woman! And if you're still on Substack - theinformationanimal.substack.com

Any John le Carré fans out there? You don't want to miss our latest episode, which not only goes into his writing process, we also take a peek at the new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford called "Tradecraft".

Just a few days ago we did a podcast on art theft. And then the Louvre gets robbed in Paris "Thieves steal jewels of 'incalculable' value in seven-minute heist at Louvre museum in Paris" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Well, friends, if you’ve read and liked my book enough, please consider leaving at least some stars on sites like Good Reads, Amazon or Google Books. Every little bit helps, thanks! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Who wants to be McLuhan when one can be Ellul? But in all seriousness, this was nice to see: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lies...

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account. On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !! They promise: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources Share the news 🔁

If you haven’t notice, Canadian women are quietly kicking ass the world over. Magdeleine Vallieres became the women’s road race world champion: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/canad...

Highly recommend The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by @stephenmarche.bsky.social who still somehow manages to end it on a hopeful note. It came out in 2022 and remains shockingly prescient www.cbc.ca/books/the-ne...

Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation? But how practical is the hope that Finland can be a beacon for other democracies? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... According to @lageneralista.ca from the Carnegie Endowment Information Environment Project, "Ecologically speaking, not very."

Featuring @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social, @jonrauch.bsky.social & the #GreekChorus

@lageneralista.ca has written a truly thought provoking book for our times. Well done. open.substack.com/pub/hollyber...

Reminder, there's a network of local cable access and community media centers where you can broadcast your own content. www.allcommunitymedia.org

As per the DSTV surprise connection in Barcelona, we need to get @laddecker.bsky.social on to talk about the collab that came from the show!

Someone just pointed out the kind shout-out Sophie Grove gave me on Monocle Radio's The Briefing - Great recap of a fabulous conference! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

🎧 Looking for a great audio interview? CSDI Director @heiditworek.bsky.social spoke to KKFI Radio about the modern communication landscape, what we can learn from media trends of the past, and much more. kkfi.org/program-epis...

For those not steeped in online conservative circles, Charlie Kirk was hardly a household name outside the U.S. before this past week. But his death has galvanized right-wing figures abroad who have hailed him as a martyr for a global movement. Latest ⬇️ www.wsj.com/world/charli...

NEW: 77% of Americans say the US political system needs major changes or complete reform. Those who say the same about their country Nigeria 91% Brazil 87% S Korea 86% Greece 83% Kenya 80% France 74% UK 58% Germany 48% Canada 47% Sweden 29% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

If you'd like a sneak peek at The Information Animal, @hilltimes.com has an excerpt in this week's paper, which we've unlocked for a limited time here - it's from one of my favourite chapters looking at Finland www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Today’s race start. We did not win.

There is still time to sign up for and read the books for the next @dogshirttv.bsky.social book club on September 25. While my book is up, I’ll reveal the mysteries of why I paired it with The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab: substack.com/@aliciawanle...

“But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.” @cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in his piece here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If you’re looking for something different - I strongly recommend joining the Monocle world. I’ve never seen a publication (outside @lawfaremedia.org) create that level of community before. Thanks to Anthony Perez for the shots.

9 September 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Kató Nisel, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

anyone know any experts on digital ad disclosures in Singapore or Taiwan?

The application for the 2026 Tech Policy Press fellowship is open! If you are looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analysis, we want to hear from you! Read our announcement to learn more: buff.ly/WtFSK3S

I started reading @lageneralista.ca book and it's so interesting! Somehow both alarming and comforting at the same time... a.co/d/eVqssHX

Restoring Bison to Yellowstone Has ‘Reawakened’ the Ecosystem as the Large Animals Migrate, Study Suggests

Well, getting The Information Animal into a Waterstones in Trafalgar certainly makes my day. Thanks to @abarrinha.bsky.social for spotting and sharing this! Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for being awesome!

So You Want to Own Greenland?🤔 Elizabeth Buchanan's guide from the Vikings to Trump is out now!👏 ‘Insightful and witty.’ — @publisherswkly.bsky.social ‘A highly readable (and expert) guide.’ — @gordoncorera.bsky.social 25% off w/code GREENLAND25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4ezeesk4

And for anyone who has a secret phone, turn it off.

Have to say that Garvan on the @lufthansa.bsky.social Ljubljana to Frankfurt route was among the best hosts I’ve had welcome me in a flight ever. Super helpful, and just delightful.

"When I wrote that piece, the idea of exposing personal details of my life to scrutiny or criticism was terrifying," writes Esme Hewitt. "What I wasn’t expecting was for someone to take my words and claim them as their own."

I'm looking for an expert in Google Ads monetization to help me estimate how much a network of spammy websites may be making. Anyone recommend anyone?

Not sure how many of my compatriots are on here, but The Information Animal is finally available in Canada 🇨🇦 on Amazon, Indigo, and soon at Perfect Books in Ottawa. Please help a gal out and pick a copy up! a.co/d/cgGkaeL

Well, that’s bleak. Struggling to understand how Canada ranked. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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Wherein, alongside Prime Ministers and Presidents, I ask what can aphids teach us about disinformation? 2025.bledstrategicforum.org/wp-content/u...

Third time is the charm: But I really enjoyed being referred to as @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org‘s cinematic universe - this is also a thumbnail I can finally get behind.

Interesting paper and helpful thread. Bottom line: publicly supported independent media and reducing uncertainty lead to positive cycles; lower quality media and perpetuating uncertainty lead to downward spirals in this Austrian study.

A wee book page - "The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality" is finally out! theinformationanimal.com

Video of my event with @kkdumez.bsky.social youtu.be/8QqdSxAxAU4?...

These thumbnails. My god.

Anyone up for an experiment with Amazon? Is the cart truthful about remaining stock? I need eight people in the US to help me find out www.amazon.com/Information-...

I travel a lot - and mostly on Air Canada. Not paying flight attendants until the doors are closed is ludicrous. About as ludicrous as this ruling. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Our own @lageneralista.ca was on CBC’s The House this weekend talking about her book “The Information Animal”. Listen here 👉🏼 Did Putin triumph over Trump at the Alaska summit? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Grateful and clearly terrified to close out today’s The House on CBC talking about “The Information Animal” - take all the shiny people as bait to sit through to the end: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...