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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨 Read this to see how extremists within the US State Dept have *weaponized the government*. They made a list of journos & researchers they personally don’t like, ideological keywords, and are searching for mentions. They plan to leak, Twitter Files style. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

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Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics

Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, and right-wing buzzwords for a “Twitter files”-style document dump about alleged conservat...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

With apologies for the spell-check (which is definitely a form of censorship, btw) it is ‘kowtow’ - synonyms attached for reference

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The best interviews feel like conversations and the best conversations move ideas forward. Thanks for a great conversation, Beth.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Until then just remember that fear doesn't build actual respect, lies never create useful knowledge, hatred never creates stable societies, and kindness generally makes you sleep better.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

At the day job we are imagining how to improve knowledge seeking/sorting/sharing at the community level. aka Rethinking how journalism might work on messaging applications.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

All failures at this scale require imagination - I hope we don't just try to plug the holes in legacy institutions but that we use the opportunity of this horrible moment in human history to imagine different institutions.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

And so they call us biased, which confirms the crazy-people's theories about our/my deep-state intentions, which leads to harassment, which leads to me leaving social media which leads to...well...honestly, improved mental health.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Because the truth can really mess with your vibe if you are loving a certain way of seeing the world that makes sense to you. And this might cause you to spend less time on the platforms. And that is the truth of why social media UX engineers don't build truth loving interfaces.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It didn't work because truth wrapped in citations and placed next to your crazy uncle's favorite influencer smells a lot like institutional smartness. IMO this is a solvable UX problem and the platforms that helped run these programs never fully committed to their success in a serious way.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We are tossing heart-hands and white papers and fact-checks over the walls of the castle and wondering why it's not working.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Civil society and independent media, meanwhile, is ill-equipped to hold the line against the marauding hoard of viral and virulent culture warriors with empathy and citation rich hypermedia.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Mainstream media has an inherent bias to supporting the cultural inertia and epistemic conservatism that keep their advertisers and/or oligarchs happy. The resultant 'neutrality' loses credibility while also slowly failing in the attention economy.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This moment of history is the payout on our government's failures. Vietnam, Tuskegee, WMD, NSA Prism, AbuGhraib, Big Pharma - all amplified through the trauma, loss, and cultural long-covid of the pandemic which is looking for a scapegoat and finding it in 'the government'

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Government as a massive and distant and inherently procedural body tends to lose trust and credibility like stars lose heat.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Great thread @eliothiggins.bsky.social I do think, though, that the first phase is not only gate-keeping what @mariaressa.bsky.social calls 'holding the line' - it is the long work of maintaining credible institutions - government, media, civil society

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files. Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...

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The Censorship-Industrial Complex

YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@devingaffney.com thx for making it down to the SF office. Safe travels.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@ammeep.com would love to talk if you have any cycles! 🙏☮️

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

If there are people you care about who need more care today than they did yesterday, then you have more purpose today than you did yesterday.

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

This morning someone on my team asked, 'who would do this and why?' The answer is: those who benefit from our forgetting, those whose agenda is harmed by access to knowledge. For the people who want to revise history, science, and the events that describe our world, the IA is a problem.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/01/2024

For folks interested in Bluesky, in about half an hour @yoyoel.com is moderating a panel with myself and @jay.bsky.team talking about Bluesky and protocols over platforms at the Knight Informed conference. knightfoundation.org/events/infor...

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INFORMED 2024: Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age

Knight Foundation is once again convening leading experts in policy, academia and civil society to discuss the most pressing issues at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

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Ed, without social media @edbice.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

listening to Jay Gruber discuss Bluesky - we want to build an ecosystem where anyone can particpate in moderation, including third party middleware - a marketplace for sharing apps that help with moderation as a service. Yes - this is such an important aspect of protocol based platforms.

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