Matt Ross
@ncmattrossie.bsky.social
Client Ops - Logically Facts | formerly North Carolina, currently Ireland | Opinions mine
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Matt Ross
@ncmattrossie.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Hey Bluesky, I’m Matt. Formerly a fact checker for Logically Facts, currently more of an administrator. Ireland-based but originally from North Carolina. Interested in grifts, cults, propaganda, extremism, and how they all intersect and are monetized in our wonderful new information environment.
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Reality is just absurd now. Tathony house, where the former tenants were fighting eviction (Jack Power & I wrote articles about it at the time) is now being set up as homeless accommodation under the new owners (great reporting from Dub Inquirer team) www.dublininquirer.com/time-and-aga...
Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation
A spokesperson for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said its priority was “to ensure there is an adequate provision of accommodation for people experiencing homelessness”.
www.dublininquirer.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reality is just absurd now. Tathony house, where the former tenants were fighting eviction (Jack Power & I wrote articles about it at the time) is now being set up as homeless accommodation under the new owners (great reporting from Dub Inquirer team) www.dublininquirer.com/time-and-aga...
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wow, they released the files and it turns out JFK was still alive until just a few years ago, living in an old folks home in rural Texas alongside Elvis Presley
March 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
wow, they released the files and it turns out JFK was still alive until just a few years ago, living in an old folks home in rural Texas alongside Elvis Presley
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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The first issue of False Flag, my new newsletter on right-wing media for @thebulwark.bsky.social, is coming out this morning!
Sign up to get it here:
www.thebulwark.com/newsletters
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The Bulwark | Substack
Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. Home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more.
No partisan loyalties. No tribal prejudices. Click to read The B...
www.thebulwark.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The first issue of False Flag, my new newsletter on right-wing media for @thebulwark.bsky.social, is coming out this morning!
Sign up to get it here:
www.thebulwark.com/newsletters
Sign up to get it here:
www.thebulwark.com/newsletters
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Some news: I'm starting a new job at @thebulwark.bsky.social, where I'll be writing a newsletter twice a week on right-wing media and conspiracy theories. It's exciting!
Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Some news: I'm starting a new job at @thebulwark.bsky.social, where I'll be writing a newsletter twice a week on right-wing media and conspiracy theories. It's exciting!
Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
February 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg. Epic Rap Battles of History
YouTube video by ERB
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg has invented Bluesky
February 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mark Zuckerberg has invented Bluesky
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The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign.
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign.
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset
www.404media.co/archivists-w...
www.404media.co/archivists-w...
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset
www.404media.co/archivists-w...
www.404media.co/archivists-w...
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Spent this week looking at the digital footprint of Cameron Finnigan, the Sussex teenager convicted for crimes relating to his involvement with the the esoteric nazi abuse network 764.
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news.sky.com/story/inside...
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news.sky.com/story/inside...
Inside the ultra-violent neo-Nazi abuse network behind the crimes of a Sussex teenager
Cameron Finnigan was immersed in the 764, a dark online community whose members film and share acts of extreme violence. Sky News has found traces of this group - and has been told there are more than...
news.sky.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Spent this week looking at the digital footprint of Cameron Finnigan, the Sussex teenager convicted for crimes relating to his involvement with the the esoteric nazi abuse network 764.
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news.sky.com/story/inside...
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news.sky.com/story/inside...
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Someone has scraped the data of my voice and is using A.i to create a replica of me to promote scams
January 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Someone has scraped the data of my voice and is using A.i to create a replica of me to promote scams
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“Every wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire, but a planned attack to further sinister ends.”
Read @annamerlan.bsky.social’s first-person account of living through devastating wildfires while trying to report on the disinformation about them.
Read @annamerlan.bsky.social’s first-person account of living through devastating wildfires while trying to report on the disinformation about them.
As LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living through
The sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“Every wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire, but a planned attack to further sinister ends.”
Read @annamerlan.bsky.social’s first-person account of living through devastating wildfires while trying to report on the disinformation about them.
Read @annamerlan.bsky.social’s first-person account of living through devastating wildfires while trying to report on the disinformation about them.
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We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
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Many useful Community Notes on X cite as evidence articles researched and published by traditional fact-checking organisations around the world, the very same ones that it's now fashionable to call useless, biased and unreliable.
January 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Many useful Community Notes on X cite as evidence articles researched and published by traditional fact-checking organisations around the world, the very same ones that it's now fashionable to call useless, biased and unreliable.
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A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
The real Adrian Dittmann
The account appears to be, in fact, Adrian Dittmann, a German Musk fan living in Fiji, according to a Spectator analysis of his posts
thespectator.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
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A lot of people are frustrated because everything is a scam, from airlines to Google, now. It's unbelievably irritating that they voted for the biggest scammer of them all.
But we're so awash in scams, that it's not surprising Trump hides in plain sight. People can't tell scam from not-scam.
But we're so awash in scams, that it's not surprising Trump hides in plain sight. People can't tell scam from not-scam.
December 13, 2024 at 1:09 PM
A lot of people are frustrated because everything is a scam, from airlines to Google, now. It's unbelievably irritating that they voted for the biggest scammer of them all.
But we're so awash in scams, that it's not surprising Trump hides in plain sight. People can't tell scam from not-scam.
But we're so awash in scams, that it's not surprising Trump hides in plain sight. People can't tell scam from not-scam.
I don’t know if I believe in omens but
JUST IN: Tesla Cybertruck explodes at the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I don’t know if I believe in omens but
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❌ Three fake screenshots mimicking Trump's Truth Social have appeared on Bluesky (and other platforms), posing as posts on a rift between the president-elect and Elon Musk.
All three of these posts are fake.
All three of these posts are fake.
December 23, 2024 at 10:44 AM
❌ Three fake screenshots mimicking Trump's Truth Social have appeared on Bluesky (and other platforms), posing as posts on a rift between the president-elect and Elon Musk.
All three of these posts are fake.
All three of these posts are fake.
I’ve been listening to In Winter by the Unthanks a lot lately. It’s perfect for people who like Christmas but also have seasonal affective disorder.
December 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM
I’ve been listening to In Winter by the Unthanks a lot lately. It’s perfect for people who like Christmas but also have seasonal affective disorder.
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December 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Thirst discourse around the CEO shooter reminding me of reading Manhunt: The 12 Day Hunt for Lincoln’s Killer many years ago and being struck by how hot John Wilkes Booth was perceived to be by many.
December 10, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Thirst discourse around the CEO shooter reminding me of reading Manhunt: The 12 Day Hunt for Lincoln’s Killer many years ago and being struck by how hot John Wilkes Booth was perceived to be by many.