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Peter Pomerantsev
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Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow

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noupside.bsky.social
Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago.

The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
efinkel.bsky.social
Hey, Ukraine scholars, there is a job! A job! A job for you without "Russian", Slavic", "Soviet" or "Post-Soviet" in the title. A blue-yellow, trident shaped unicorn, in blood and flesh
Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
jobs.utoronto.ca
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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jwdl.bsky.social
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social i @dagensnyheter.bsky.social
Peter Pomerantsev: EU kan vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfäktningen
Techmagnater gillar att framställa sig som yttrandefrihetens riddare men EU har goda chanser att vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfäktningen.
www.dn.se
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
anneapplebaum.bsky.social
'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
mantzarlis.com
Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services.

Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored.

Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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news-flows-cz.bsky.social
Rusko uskutečňuje sen o rozdělení Západu. Pravým poraženým není Ukrajina, ale Evropa, míní Pomerantsev

Vyjednavači Spojených států a Ukrajiny v Ženevě zpřesnili dokument, který má ukončit válku s Ruskem. „Pro Ukrajinu to ve srovnání s těmi hroznými návrhy, co byly vydány před měsícem, je...
Rusko uskutečňuje sen o rozdělení Západu. Pravým poraženým není Ukrajina, ale Evropa, míní Pomerantsev
Pomerantsev se domnívá, že Rusko se jen tak nevzdá své snahy dobýt více ukrajinského území. Má prý pocit, že na bojišti dělá pokroky a návrhy mírových dohod může Američany držet ve hře.
www.irozhlas.cz
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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franciswade.bsky.social
Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda.

— @noemamag.com

www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
www.noemamag.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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warroomeds.bsky.social
@michaelneiberg.bsky.social & @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social discuss #propaganda at #CVHF2024! Hear the parallels between #WWII & #Ukraine, focusing on Sefton Delmer's counter-Nazi "fake news" tactics. Essential listening for current events! #WARROOM

warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/mod...
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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clairemyfanwy.bsky.social
If quoting Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat @eliothiggins.bsky.social weren't enough, describing X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" is all you need to know this will be a good read.

Definitely worth 5 minutes of your time, and a gift link too!
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
noemamag.com
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise, Peter Pomerantsev argues.

#authoritarian #journalism #disinformation #media
Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
www.noemamag.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
nonviolence3.com
"Instead of thinking about debunking disinformation, we should be thinking about how to tell better stories…they're stories of action, stories of policy, stories of meaning…And it's up to us to tell these stories."
—Peter Pomerantsev
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the ‘peace plan’ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
michaeldweiss.bsky.social Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · Nov 21
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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quiette.bsky.social
"We have two ways of having a relationship with the language all around us [...]. We can either be defined by it or rebel and re create it."

Peter Pomerantsev, 'How to Win an Information War'
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
Authoritarian propaganda ruthlessly exploits peoples need to belong, latent resentments, insecurities and helplessness. To compete you need to dive into the dark operating theatre of human desire….some lessons from research across Europe thats applicable to to US

www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
www.noemamag.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Peter Pomerantsev
anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"Trump treats American potency as a wasting asset, drawing it down over and over to satisfy his personal whims and ideas," says Thomas Wright. But sooner or later, power will drain away
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
What If ‘America First’ Appears to Work?
“Might makes right” is still wrong for America, but opposing it just got harder.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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davidedgarwolf.bsky.social
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read
The team behind The Guardian Long Read join us to introduce this new magazine
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse"

From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone

www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
Terror Returns to Darfur
Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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philipleventhal.bsky.social
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev

DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM