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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 10h

As we process the DoS pressuring the EU to back off criticism of the US for being an agent of FIMI at #disinfo2026, and while we wait to see if the US will fund STOs for Serbia’s election, all of this was foreseeable in April 2025. quirkglobalstrategies.substack.com/p/from-the-r...

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From the Right Side to the Wrong Side in Four Months

Staring at the abyss from the Wrong Side

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 12h

“The demarche request appears to be an unusual administration effort to use allied government pressure to silence criticism from European citizens and Americans abroad (three U.S. citizens appeared on one of the panels that prompted the cable).“ www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 12h

kicking myself for hearing about the arrest, thinking 'azerbaijan' and not telling anyone because thought two was 'come on there are other countries in the world'

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 12h

“I wish I could monetize my professional experience that is relevant to current events.”

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 12h

Listening right now! It’s good

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 15h

Soon it will be commonly understood that opposition politicians winning elections spend their next years in jail - it will be seen as a faintly absurd stunt to even try, like heroic investigative journalism

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Three government sponsors pulled their logos from Europe's premier disinformation conference in Vilnius this week. Ramsha Jahangir and Giovana Fleck report on what drove the withdrawals and the transatlantic politics behind them.

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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics

Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vienna’s failure on the lunch front was 💯 redeemed on the dinner fron.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It comes to me. I don’t seek it out. It’s the algorithm!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The old folk wisdom from 1918-1919 we had around here was that White Russians are still Russians, and it still holds true today.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Asked who is most responsible for the rise in fuel prices, almost two thirds of Poles (64.8%) say US President Donald Trump. A quarter (25.2%) blame Prime Minister Donald Tusk and only 0.9% President Karol Nawrocki. IBRiS poll for @rp.pl: www.rp.pl/kraj/art4525...

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Credit to the conference for even putting this on the agenda to begin with--it obviously belongs there.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I knew I should have gone to this conference rather than the one I’m at.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder if something like this work worked on Linked In so I stop getting ads for cancer researchers

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mayor on the front lines 💪

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026

i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a thing confirmed by research, to an extent. It’s also why ensuring content shows up in retrieval and in training data is the new battleground.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excellent news, although a move years late in the making. It's absurd that civilized states still allow Russian propagandists to poison their information spaces from within.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All of these happened to me or to my colleagues while working in AZ. I forgot about the empty glass of milk left on the kitchen counter.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Post has gone soft, putting Mile High Rub in the last sentence rather than the hed.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They buried the headline! It was right there!

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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You've probably noticed that recently this platform has been absolutely consumed with Russia's ongoing "Russia is not my enemy" campaign. A wave of similar posts with the hashtag #RussiaIsNotMyEnemy is spreading in the European segment of X (formerly Twitter).

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gas hobs left lit. Apartments ransacked but nothing missing. A cigarette butt left in the apartment of a non-smoker. Unflushed piss or poop in a toilet, with no paper. They want you to know they where there.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's Bowie/Prince or Parton/Curry for the worst people in the world.

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk has repeatedly used his platform to support authoritarian political figures. His backing of the AfD, Marine Le Pen, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele has been accompanied by interventions in Brazil, Italy and Hungary, as well as direct involvement in the UK’s far-right political landscape.

globalextremism.org

Beyond AfD: Tracking Elon Musk’s Support for the Global Far Right

Elon Musk is backing the far right across multiple continents. From Germany’s AfD and France’s Marine Le Pen to Spain’s Vox, Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the tech billionai...

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Adam Reichardt @areichardt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Serbia is organizing parliamentary elections on October 25th. These elections could be the most consequential in a generation. I highly recommend watching Talk Eastern Europe's interview with Nikola Ristić - one of the 1st activists to organize after the Novi Sad tragedy. youtu.be/P2svouL3SUM?...

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The Untold Story Behind Serbia's Student Revolution | Nikola Ristić

YouTube video by Talk Eastern Europe

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can’t wait to hear what the Trump admin thinks are the range of options available in reaction to a plague outbreak in Russia.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Lidl ad campaign in Poland promotes products from different countries. Here’s France!

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating to see who's racing to defend Kushner after the latest revelations into his massive conflicts of interest. Not diplomats. Not regional experts. Not even elected Republicans! Just a bunch of billionaire/VC guys who can't explain away Kushner's foreign financial links.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Moldova’s National Army radars recorded a sixth airspace violation in one day, an unmanned drone, as Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 03/10/2026

Custer’s first stand

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Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We find that most Russians are not lying in surveys about their support for their country’s war against Ukraine.... Nearly 70 per cent of respondents expressed either weak or strong support for the war over the course of our survey." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Threshold Effect: Preference Falsification Versus Weak Preferences in Russian War Support | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

The Threshold Effect: Preference Falsification Versus Weak Preferences in Russian War Support - Volume 56

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the first time in a century, every great power is autocratic or heading that way. In a post-unipolar world, strongmen shop for patrons and make deals while democrats increasingly are on the defensive. @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, @berkesen.bsky.social, and Sebnem Gumuscu muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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