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Journo-hack, BBC Newsnight
Being called comrade was a first…
April 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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“If I can help one family to not feel what we are feeling, then it's all worth it”

Chanel Williams, sister of The Vivienne, talks to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about raising awareness about the dangers of ketamine after her brother died of a cardiac arrest caused by the drug in January

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April 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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“They won’t be able to make it to the toilet…they'll have to be wearing pads in the daytime if they work”

A 23-year-old in treatment for ketamine addiction talks to Victoria Derbyshire about the potential damage using the recreational drug can have on the bladder.

#Newsnight
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Produced this feature on the UK's ketamine "crisis". Fantastic to meet young people in treatment for ketamine abuse, the medical staff looking after them, and the campaigners who want the drug to be reclassified as Class A.
"I think we've got a ketamine epidemic now..it's here and it's now."

Katie Bryan, lead nurse at Adferiad Detox Centre, warns
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social about the "crisis" caused by growing use of the recreational drug and the impact it can have on bladders.

#Newsnight
April 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“Whoever controls powerful AI… could be a dictator”

@faisalislam.bsky.social speaks to Nobel Prize winning Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, who warns about the dangers of AI dictators and the impact powerful AI could have on global democracy.

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...
Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
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February 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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WATCH: “Who controls powerful A.I... could be a dictator"

2024 Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu talks to @faisalislam.bsky.social about the possible impact of artificial intelligence on politics, societies and economies.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...

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Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
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February 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WATCH: “If you have a very powerful A.I. model that influences a great majority’s choices, that is a dictatorial position."

2024 Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu on the possible impact of A.I.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...

#Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.social | @aflemingbrown.bsky.social
Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
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February 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WATCH: "If we delegate all power to… algorithms controlled by 1 or 2 companies, I would say that's the opposite of democracy."

2024 Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu on the possible impact of A.I.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...

#Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.social | @aflemingbrown.bsky.social
Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
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February 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WATCH: "We're going to a place where a lot of power and information are centralized in the hands of a few companies or a few governments.”

Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu on AI’s possible impacts

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...

#Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.social | @aflemingbrown.bsky.social
Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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February 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WATCH: "…part of my worries are about loss of tasks, loss of jobs and loss of meaning for people.”

2024 Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu on the possible impact of A.I. on societies and economies.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...

#Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.social | @aflemingbrown.bsky.social
Nobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracy
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February 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s OK for schoolchildren to use chatGPT for their homework says Science minister Peter Kyle MP #bbclaurak
January 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨Jess Phillips sits down with @vicderbyshire.bsky.social on #Newsnight for her first TV interview since Elon Musk called for her to be jailed.
📺Full interview at 10:30PM tonight.
January 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m back on the @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social desk for our first show of 2025.
If you have a story/ guest idea / data / tip-off…let’s have coffee soon!
You can email me via alex.fleming-brown@bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Didn’t have this on my 2025 bingo card
January 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’

@iburrell for the i paper writes that the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions
December 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Great UK government source quote on Chagos deal from the Times

www.thetimes.com/article/1e90...
November 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
📗42% of independent school students get extra time
📕26% of non-selective school students get extra time
🤓Source: Ofqual
“I am concerned about the difference...we want to make the system equitable”

@faisalislam.bsky.social asks Bridget Phillipson why nearly twice as many private school students are getting extra time in exams under special educational needs provisions than those at state schools

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November 27, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.

#Newsnight
November 19, 2024 at 1:19 PM