Daniel Mpala
@danielmpala.bsky.social
AfriCAN I Ex Business & Tech Journo | Researching Journalism, OSINT & Disinformation| Interests:Online Privacy| Foreign Affairs / IR |Tech | F1
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The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Rising disinformation has far-reaching consequences in many policy areas ranging from public health to national security. It can cast doubt on factual evidence, jeopardise the implementation of public...
www.oecd.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
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Would they speak to Putin in a similar manner? Just asking for a friend.
February 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Would they speak to Putin in a similar manner? Just asking for a friend.
This was an ambush. Shameful.
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This was an ambush. Shameful.
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Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.
Germany’s Merz seeks ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead
Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.
www.politico.eu
February 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.
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🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia
The Trump administration wants Ukraine’s resolution withdrawn and replaced with a toned-down version that officials feel is overly sympathetic to Russia.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...
February 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...
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It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
www.bbc.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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DeepSeek, like having a chat with a rep from the CCP about Uyghurs, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
DeepSeek, like having a chat with a rep from the CCP about Uyghurs, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
The EU, NATO are in deep trouble.
January 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The EU, NATO are in deep trouble.
The next four years are going to be very interesting.
January 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The next four years are going to be very interesting.
Trump, making press conferences interesting again.
January 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump, making press conferences interesting again.
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Meta's announcement on Tuesday has gotten a lot of attention, but IMHO the most important part was the one that no one seems to be talking about: changes to Facebook's feed algorithm that will make it more likely to recommend extreme and polarizing content. Quick 🧵 to explain:
January 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Meta's announcement on Tuesday has gotten a lot of attention, but IMHO the most important part was the one that no one seems to be talking about: changes to Facebook's feed algorithm that will make it more likely to recommend extreme and polarizing content. Quick 🧵 to explain:
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“Journalists have a set of standards and ethics,” @mariaressa.bsky.social said. “What Facebook is going to do is get rid of that and then allow lies, anger, fear and hate to infect every single person on the platform.”
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Journalists have a set of standards and ethics,” @mariaressa.bsky.social said. “What Facebook is going to do is get rid of that and then allow lies, anger, fear and hate to infect every single person on the platform.”
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I want you to know that I still care what happens to our information ecosystems.
Maybe it wasn’t the fact-checkers that biased Facebook, but instead it was all the political operatives waiting for a moment like this.
Meta wants friction-free oligarchy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Maybe it wasn’t the fact-checkers that biased Facebook, but instead it was all the political operatives waiting for a moment like this.
Meta wants friction-free oligarchy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy
The company’s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I want you to know that I still care what happens to our information ecosystems.
Maybe it wasn’t the fact-checkers that biased Facebook, but instead it was all the political operatives waiting for a moment like this.
Meta wants friction-free oligarchy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Maybe it wasn’t the fact-checkers that biased Facebook, but instead it was all the political operatives waiting for a moment like this.
Meta wants friction-free oligarchy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a probably a South Korean film director out there already thinking up a doing a movie on this week’s martial law fiasco.
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 AM
There’s a probably a South Korean film director out there already thinking up a doing a movie on this week’s martial law fiasco.
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Refreshing honestly from a reporter living under (brief) marital law and reporting on the craziness www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Refreshing honestly from a reporter living under (brief) marital law and reporting on the craziness www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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This is the energy we will need!!
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
This is the energy we will need!!
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What are the best starter packs you’ve found?
December 4, 2024 at 2:53 AM
What are the best starter packs you’ve found?
I can say without doubt that Bluesky is slowly becoming my favourite social media app after Reddit. The interactions here feel genuine and wholesome.Can’t the team behind @bsky.app make an Instagram competitor too. 🤣🤣
December 4, 2024 at 2:27 PM
I can say without doubt that Bluesky is slowly becoming my favourite social media app after Reddit. The interactions here feel genuine and wholesome.Can’t the team behind @bsky.app make an Instagram competitor too. 🤣🤣
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Visualization of the network: a night sky where each star is someone posting ✨
I made a thing!
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
Nightsky | hctr.dev
See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky
nightsky.hctr.dev
November 17, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Visualization of the network: a night sky where each star is someone posting ✨