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Joseph Beaudreau
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Oregonian in Paris. PhD at Sorbonne Nouvelle - US Media, Fact Checking.

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Joseph Beaudreau @josephbeaudreau.bsky.social · Dec 9
Finally making the jump from X, so here's an #introduction: Originally from beautiful Oregon 🌲 but have been living/researching/teaching in Paris 🥖 for 10+ years. Finishing dissertation on the political economy of disinformation and fact-checking in US media ecosystem.

Other interests: 🚴‍♂️ ☕️ 🐈 🇻🇳 🍜 ♾️
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jamellebouie.net
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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esthercyna.bsky.social
🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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alicetiara.bsky.social
When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS
jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 5d
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...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.

We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
josephbeaudreau.bsky.social
I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
josephbeaudreau.bsky.social
This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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ccesoir.bsky.social
« Il montre que si on a une base militante suffisamment forte, une candidature populaire et qu'on sait communiquer, on peut gagner » @colestangler.bsky.social Journaliste franco-américain

#CCeSoir
➡️ bit.ly/TrumpMamdani...
🎧 en podcast
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal.
prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...
The Flaw in Trump’s MAGA Media Empire Plot - The American Prospect
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is for sale, and Trump is trying to force the company to agree to a merger with Paramount, consolidating media with his allies the Ellisons. But states can...
prospect.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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npr.org
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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seeshespeak.bsky.social
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16d
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.

It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.

wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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kanejim.bsky.social
Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode.

pitchbook.com/news/article...
Blue Owl has put up an initial $7 billion in cash for the new entity, with Meta set to receive a $3 billion distribution upon closing. Blue Owl’s contribution is part-funded by fixed-income investors, including Pimco, through a private bond offering. In a private lending market characterized by relatively low-risk investments in cash-generative businesses, Blue Owl has stood out for its embrace of large-scale, high-tech infrastructure investments. For Blue Owl, the transaction includes a residual value guarantee, which means that if Meta chooses not to renew its lease, the facility will be marketed for sale. And if the resale value of the data center falls below a pre-agreed threshold, Meta is liable to make up the shortfall to investors. “Meta wants the optionality to be able to walk away from this facility if either their strategy changes or they decide they are going to take a different approach to AI training, or God forbid this ‘bubble cracks’ and the world goes a different direction,” said Naveen Sarma, a managing director at S&P, who covers credit ratings for companies in the telecommunication and media sector.
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
The Dissent from 9th Circuit judge Susan Graber is powerful: “observers may be tempted to view the majority’s ruling, which accepts the government’s characterization of
Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But today’s decision is not merely absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles”
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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oregonian.com
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
josephbeaudreau.bsky.social
Thanks to the team at @savoirdevenir.bsky.social for organizing such an exceptional conference. It is without exaggeration that I will be digesting all the wonderful discussions for a while.
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Getting lost in statistics about numbers and semantics about ideology misses real issue: This is no "grassroots" movement. It is externally funded and organised. Its network ALL have X blue ticks and Musk beamed in to incite violence. Stop the dark money and astroturfing. The rest will soon wither.
September 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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katz.theracket.news
Lots of foreign examples popping up but we have had experiences like this in America before — the McCarthy Era, World War I, the Japanese internment during WWII. Never went well for the rest of civil liberties to put it mildly.
asharangappa.bsky.social Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 14
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Ominous
seth-stern.bsky.social Seth Stern @seth-stern.bsky.social · Sep 13
I spoke to @theintercept.com about a bonkers bill that would let Marco Rubio, who thinks pro-Palestine op-ed writers are terrorists, revoke passports for whoever he deems a supporter of terrorism.

It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.
theintercept.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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mediamorphis.bsky.social
I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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mschenk.bsky.social
At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Sep 13
Someone just sent me a bunch of examples of these. Apparently the site is flooded with them.

There's gotta be a story behind all of these.
September 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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drilledmedia.bsky.social
Make no mistake, the global turn toward authoritarianism is heavily oil-funded. drilled.media/news/casey-m...
The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence
Casey Michel, author of ‘Foreign Agents,’ on the state of lobbying and corruption in America.
drilled.media
September 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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keithroysdon.bsky.social
This is a very real trap that journalists fall into: because a source or newsmaker is nice to you, you treat them favorably.

It’s grooming. You’ve been groomed.
brooklynmarie.bsky.social Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Sep 12
The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.
September 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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brooklynmarie.bsky.social
The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM