📢 Today the UK House of Lords Communication and Digital Committee publishes its report on media literacy.

We’re pleased to see our recommendations reflected throughout the final report and fully support its conclusions 🧵

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Earlier this week we hosted Demos' first #EpistemicSecurityNetwork event to present new research on how Community Notes performed during the 2024 #SouthportRiots - and the findings are troubling.

📺 Watch the event here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MBT...

🗓️ The next public engagement in data and AI Community of Practice meeting is Wednesday 18 June at 2pm on Zoom. Register via link.

Speakers ‪@prateekbuch.bsky.social‬ (Policy Lab),
@hannahperry.bsky.social‬ (@demos-uk.bsky.social‬) and Georgina Denis from PSi.

connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

📢 We're hiring! 📢

Want to join an exciting #thinktank working at the very heart of British politics?

We're searching for:
👥 Associate Director, Public Service Reform
💷 Associate Director, Citizen Economy
🗣️ Communications Manager
🤝 Engagement Manager

Apply now 👉 demos.co.uk/jobs/

#PolicyJobs

❗Labour is reportedly planning £6 billion in cuts to #benefits for people with a disability or long-term health conditions.

These cuts only threaten to deepen community distress and hardship which - as new Demos and @jrf-uk.bsky.social research shows - has been steadily rising over the last decade.

💼 Are you thinking about a career in the think tank sector?

Join this exciting webinar for some tips, insights and advice on breaking into the field - we're particularly looking forward to welcoming those from under-represented groups.

Find out more ⬇️

❗ The UK must act now to secure its information supply chain - before disinformation, failing news ecosystems, and foreign influence deepen the democratic emergency.

Our recent report, Epistemic Security 2029, explains how. ⬇️ #InformationSecurity #Democracy demos.co.uk/research/epi...

We've signed this open letter - its calls are all the more important given the UK's failure to support the international position set out at the #AISummit. Read more, including the excellent new report from Demos, below. 👇🏻

✨ New paper on #prevention spending ✨

At Demos we have been making the case for a fundamental shift in the purpose of government, away from firefighting in public services towards prevention. 👉🛡️

1️⃣ We first set out the case for The Preventative State in 2023.

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Following the global #AIsummit in Paris, today we have issued an Open Letter calling on the UK government to urgently develop and adopt a citizen-led UK Declaration of Digital Rights & Principles.❗

✉️ Read the Open Letter ⬇️

demos.co.uk/research/ope...

Really proud that @demos-uk.bsky.social are launching this open letter today - in the shadow of the Paris #AISummit - with the support of coalition of partners from calling for the UK Government to develop and adopt a citizen-led Declaration of Digital Rights & Principles ⬇️

A few weeks ago I spoke at a roundtable on the question: are Twitter/X and democracy compatible? This felt freshly relevant so I wrote up my comments into a post. A sharp version of the argument for 'no'. Just intended to be thought-provoking.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🚨

Working on disinformation and (generative) AI?

I am editing a special issue with Aqsa Farooq as part of our EDMO work.

🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024

Please share 🫶🏼

#disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky

edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

Really important and urgent new programme of work announced today by Demos on "the state of the UK’s epistemic security" and the security of our information supply chain and our institutions of democratic discourse. More from Elizabeth Seger & @hannahperry.bsky.social ⬇️
demos.co.uk/blogs/episte...

Brilliant new work from Demos' @sophiaaknight.bsky.social on why AI alone cannot save our public services. A must read.