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Social media & search engine platforms are enabling the manosphere's extreme misogyny.

This toxic ideology can radicalize young men and lead to real-life violence.

Read our explainer to learn more👇
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Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online
The manosphere is a network of online communities promoting misogyny and toxic masculinity. Learn more about their extreme ideologies.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone
June 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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#Croatia The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) report following its mission to Zagreb highlights ongoing threats to journalists in Croatia despite some reform efforts. 🚨 Political pressure, media capture, and misuse of state resources continue to undermine independent journalism.
Reforms without Protection: The Shrinking Space for Journalism in Croatia
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium published an updated report on the state of media freedom in Croatia following an advocacy mission to ...
europeanjournalists.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM

"While climate misinformation has long been a concern, often mutating into full-blown conspiracy theories, the situation has deteriorated to such an extent that the term “misinformation” no longer reflects the scale, complexity, or urgency of the threat, much less points to potential solutions"
🚨 Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress 🚨

Lili Fuhr, @ciel.org‬ & Stephanie Hankey, @info-activism.bsky.social‬ explain why we must confront Big Tech business models that commodify attention, reward outrage & flood the public sphere with AI-generated noise.
Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress | by Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey - Project Syndicate
Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey warn that platforms built to maximize engagement are suppressing facts and amplifying dangerous falsehoods.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM

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🚨 Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress 🚨

Lili Fuhr, @ciel.org‬ & Stephanie Hankey, @info-activism.bsky.social‬ explain why we must confront Big Tech business models that commodify attention, reward outrage & flood the public sphere with AI-generated noise.
Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress | by Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey - Project Syndicate
Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey warn that platforms built to maximize engagement are suppressing facts and amplifying dangerous falsehoods.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM

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🗳️ Centar za evropske vrednosti i Institut za evropske slobode posmatraće izbore u Zaječaru i Kosjeriću.

‼️ Iako nije moguće 100% utvrditi koga će poslati na biračka mesta, internet pretraga imena sa spiskova njihovih posmatrača vodi do SNS-a.

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June 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Qui se cache derrière des vidéos montrant sur Telegram une femme en train de martyriser chats, lapins et cochons d'Inde? Les séquences sont réalisées contre rémunération et elle porte un masque. Les Elfes bulgares ont enquêté. Par Rossen Bossev. @afp.com www.france24.com/fr/info-en-c...
En Bulgarie, des Elfes numériques contre la barbarie sur les animaux
Au départ, ces cybermilitants bulgares voulaient contrer la propagande russe. Mais Petko Petkov, seul visage public du collectif, est très fier de leur dernier coup d'éclat: avoir démasqué des tortion...
www.france24.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Rebecca Solnit on compromise: "If I think the world is round and you think the world is flat, I don't really make the world better by saying it's kind of a squashed oblong."
May 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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‼️ Vlast i tabloidi ponovo sinhronizovani u kampanji protiv rektora Đokića

Tu kampanju targetiranja i kriminalizacije rektora Univerziteta u Beogradu pojačali su zbog spekulacija da bi Đokić mogao da se nađe na studentskoj izbornoj listi.

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May 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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🗣️"This is an immediate crisis that demands more research and urgent action from policymakers, tech companies, and parents.”

Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in ‪@telegraphnews.bsky.social on CCDH's new findings on the world's largest incel forum ⤵️
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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I left my job at ProPublica about a month ago.

Here's why: I've teamed up with @mantzarlis.com to launch indicator.media, a new publication dedicated to exposing digital deception and to equipping professionals and the public with knowledge and skills to investigate it.

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Indicator
Indicator is your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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Platforms like TikTok are shaping who feels safe to run for office.

ISD’s new report reveals how TikTok’s failures in moderating online gender-based violence are normalising misogyny, silencing political voices & undermining democracy—especially for women during elections. Full report below ⬇️
The 'cost of doing politics'? Gendered abuse and digital platforms’ role in undermining democracy
ISD finds how TikTok’s failures in moderating online gender-based violence fuels misogyny, silences women’s voices & threatens democracy—especially during elections.
www.isdglobal.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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#Enquête : un mystérieux “expert” russe basé en #France, Oleg Nesterenko, reprend tous les codes de la propagande du Kremlin, tant sur les réseaux sociaux que dans les médias, où il a réussi à se faire publier dans une trentaine de pays. RSF a enquêté sur cet entrepreneur de l'influence russe.
À la conquête des esprits : enquête sur la l’offensive médiatique d’un entrepreneur de l’influence russe basé en France
En enquêtant sur les opérateurs de la propagande russe au Sahel, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) a découvert un mystérieux “expert” russe installé en France depuis près de 30 ans. Hyperactif sur les r...
https://rsf.org/fr/à-la-conquête-des-esprits-enquête-sur-la-l-offensive-médiatique-d-un-entrepreneur-de-l-influence
May 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM

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🇵🇱 Pologne: des sites du parti centriste au pouvoir étaient hors service ce vendredi en raison d'une cyberattaque, à deux jours du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle dimanche, a annoncé le bureau du Premier ministre #AFP
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM

@amnesty.org revealed how secret services are spying on local Serbian journalists. Then, @forbidden-stories.bsky.social teamed up with RAF to support them in their investigation of Dimitrovgrad's mayor's shady deals. Journalism work and solidarity at it best.
forbiddenstories.org/spying-journ...
Suspicious tenders and spying on journalists: a small Serbian town in the grip of corruption - Forbidden Stories
FAR and Forbidden Stories investigated the practices of the mayor of Dimitrovgrad.
forbiddenstories.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM

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Please do not use this word in my presence or at all. Do not write it out. Do not spell. Do not whisper it.

After writing this, I had to face a court of whataboutist messages. As if I sat there on my sofa thinking of something spectacular to say. The tone policing is despicable.
May 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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#SamoMinut - o odlasku predsednika Vučića u Moskvu.

I poruci da će "Srbija ostati na evropskom putu". 👇

www.istinomer.rs/analize/sta-...
Šta je zapravo „srpska stolica”? #SamoMinut - Istinomer
Uz oštre reči o Evropskoj uniji, predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić iz Rusije je za RTS rekao da će Srbija „ostati na evropskom putu”. Iza poruke „i EU i Rusija” je narativ o „srpskoj stolici” i „srps...
www.istinomer.rs
May 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM

Generative AI put confirmation bias on steroids and made propaganda cheaper.
Ruling party networks in Serbia have used an AI-made pic to further the narrative that the students leading an unprecedented protest movement are "traitors" and "oustachis"
u.afp.com/SqPE
May 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Absolutely incredible investigation by the team @bellingcat.com, TjekDet, Politiken, and CBC that uncovered the identity of the owner of the most prominent deepfake sexual abuse site.

This feels like the beginning of justice for victims. I am grateful 🙏

www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
www.bellingcat.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Decades of research suggest that authoritarian leaders and their admirers consistently share one thing in common: they twist the truth!

Our OP-ED in @time.com today about how to fight harmful misinformation! And the need to speak out against it. More speech, not less! 💪

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How to Address Misinformation Without Censorship
Too often, we excuse misinformation as a matter of opinion or free speech. And the consequences are dire.
time.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM

Also this: "Those hallucinations may not be a big problem for many people, but it is a serious issue for anyone using the technology with court documents, medical information or sensitive business data"

Lol it's just a pb for our collective and individual intelligence, no biggie
May 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM

I laughed so hard reading this. AI companies feed garbage to their tool and *gasps* can't figure out why garbage is coming out? Also the fact there are companies helping to deal with the problems created by AI hallucinations is hilarious to me, in a cynical and slightly unhinged way.
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Journalists are NOT targets.
Journalists are NOT targets.
Journalists are NOT targets.
Journalists are NOT targets.

A reminder, this #WorldPressFreedomDay.
May 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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🇷🇴🗳️ #TikTok #algorithms still boost emotive and polarising messages, with #Georgescu and #Simion benefitting "from a disproportionate visibility," says @madalinaresearch.bsky.social, Coordinator of
@brodhub.bsky.social.

🗞️ Full text: u.afp.com/STWW
👉 More on #Romania #elections: loom.ly/n3p0rII
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM

"Despite the changes, TikTok's algorithms still boost emotive and polarising messages, with Georgescu and Simion benefitting 'from a disproportionate visibility,' according to Madalina Botan, at the National University of Political Science and Administration in Bucharest."
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr
April 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM

"Studentski protest ne interveniše tako što nudi alternativu, već tako što ne pristaje. Njihovo odbijanje da se uklope, njihovo strpljenje koje se ne može instrumentalizovati, njihovo dugotrajno prisustvo, sve to funkcioniše kao raskid u kontinuitetu autoriteta."
pescanik.net/politika-nes...
Politika (ne)strpljenja
Odbijanje studenata da radikalizuju otpor i tako potvrde ozbiljnost, izaziva nerazumevanje među starijim generacijama, koje su političku efikasnost vezivale za spektakularnost.
pescanik.net
April 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM

Pro-gvt propaganda reaches new lows with this one. Informer TV showed a photo of a student holding a sign saying "death to patriarchy" at a March 8th gathering in Novi Sad, claimed students now blocking RTS call for "the death of the Patriarch"
My story in Serbian: cinjenice.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
April 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM