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Laura Engels

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She/Her. Organization studies. PhD researcher on AI & workers' well-being in the manufacturing industry. @uhasselt SEIN research group.

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta wil niet dat je deze video ziet. Ik herhaal: Meta wil níet dat je deze video ziet.
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Bieke Purnelle @biekepurnelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wat Karel zegt.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her
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JogchumV @jogchumv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heremans verkocht gisteren in De Afspraak nogal wat juridische onzin. Een paar punten 🧵 1. “Er is een arrest van het Europees Hof dat deze zaak definitief regelt!” Euh, nee. Ik kan alleen maar gokken dat Heremans Mikyas t. België bedoelt, maar dan leest ze die uitspraak toch wel erg -eh- bijzonder
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De afspraak - maandag 14 september 2026 om 20:35 | VRT MAX
Socialemediaverbod voor jongeren? Europa wil met de KIDS Act strengere regels invoeren om minderjarigen online beter te beschermen. Vooruit-voorzitter Conner Rousseau gaat een stap verder en pleit vo...
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JogchumV @jogchumv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gelukkig is er deze HLN-journalist om een authentieke interpretatie te geven van deze *checks notes* gestrekte handgroet in 45 graden door een aanhanger van een extreemrechtse partij 😬🥲 www.hln.be/buitenland/k...
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In godsnaam, lees die gesprekken die ChatGPT voerde met Adam Raine en kom dan opnieuw vertellen hoe je een LLM als therapeut kan gebruiken. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raine_v...
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
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Steven Van de Walle @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Minderaardigheidscomplex? Nee, ze geven gewoon niets om dat door een kleine minderheid opgedrongen Vlaams nationalisme www.hln.be/opinie/isold...
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Isolde Van den Eynde: “Vlamingen moeten dringend af van hun minderwaardigheidscomplex”
“Hoe komt het dat die culturele onzekerheid nog steeds zo ingebakken zit wanneer we economisch de sterkste regio van dit land zijn?” Politiek journaliste Isolde Van den Eynde ziet hoe Vlaanderen zich ...
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tante @tante.cc · 18/06/2026
@amnesty.org very based: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty InternationalUnlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 18/06/2026
Europa wil strengere grenscontroles invoeren en zoekt al jaren naar manieren om reizigers grondiger te screenen. Met AI als nieuw wondermiddel proberen onderzoekers eerder te bepalen wie met slechte intenties de Europese grens wil oversteken. En de mensenrechten dan? buff.ly/qebGrFS
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Laura Engels @engelslaura.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Jowww, kom bij ons werken en doe interessant onderzoek! 👇
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Wim Vanhaecke @wimvanhaecke.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
Ik negeer even de alles-specialist-filosoof, maar het kernprobleem van De Afspraak is opnieuw bewezen. Een presentator die onvoorbereid is en niet kan modereren en/of een slechte redactie.
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apache/ @apache.be · 24/03/2026
Wauw. Wauw. Wauw. Amper 5 dagen nadat we onze noodkreet slaakten, waren gisteren al 1.390 gulle gevers ons ter hulp geschoten. Goed voor een totaal opgehaald bedrag van … (dramatische pauze, tromgeroffel, badum tss): bijna 73.000 euro. Meer dan 1.300 gulle gevers zeiden “no pasarán” aan Jan.
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is saying you know why .
Alt: Keenan Thompson from SNL Black Jeopardy! saying "You know why!"
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman These bros are not okay.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Omdat het 'Cofnas doet "gewoon" controversieel onderzoek'-narratief ingang begint te krijgen: een aantal verduidelijkingen en informatie voor het bredere publiek dat misschien niet altijd op de hoogte is over racistische pseudowetenschap 🧵
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
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De Morgen @demorgen.be · 15/02/2026
De Amerikaanse overheid heeft Google, Meta en andere techbedrijven honderden dagvaardingen gestuurd om informatie te krijgen over gebruikers van socialemedia-accounts die immigratiepolitie ICE volgen en bekritiseren. Dat schrijft The New York Times.
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Digitale jacht op ICE-critici: Amerikaanse overheid probeert identiteit activisten te achterhalen via grote techbedrijven
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MO*Magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
De #genocide in #Palestina gaat verder. Een dossier van MO*. www.mo.be/dossiers/de-...
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De genocide gaat verder – MO*
In dit dossier blijft MO* focussen op Palestina, ook na het zogenaamde ‘vredesakkoord' van oktober 2025.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The technologies are creating a world that can be monitored at times, places and scales that were previously unimaginable. We are moving towards the “fully automated monitoring of ecological communities” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Previous research has already firmly established the negative relationship between intelligence and racial prejudice. Yet, so far, the role of self-perceived intelligence in explaining racial prejudice remains uninvestigated. The present study therefore compared the effects of intelligence test scores and self-perceived intelligence on racial prejudice using a Belgian community sample (N = 183). Our results revealed opposite relationships: whereas individuals who scored higher (vs. lower) on an intelligence test showed lower levels of racial prejudice, individuals who perceived themselves as being more intelligent compared to others showed higher levels of racial prejudice. Additional mediation analyses showed that the negative relationship between actual intelligence and racial prejudice was mediated by essentialist thinking whereas the positive association between self-perceived intelligence and racial prejudice was mediated by Social Dominance Orientation. The present results indicate that being more intelligent is related with less racial prejudice, but judging that one is more intelligent than others is related with more racial prejudice.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In dozens of interviews, sociologist, UX researcher, and interaction designer Diana Enriquez finds middle managers forced to "feign AI success" in a weak job market—for instance, pretending error-free drafts came from AI tools that actually failed.
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In Weak Job Market, Middle Managers Increasingly Forced to Feign AI Success
Amid all the hype, companies need human-centered AI that helps workers. Policymakers must protect labor at every level, writes Diana Enriquez.
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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wordt 2026 het jaar waarin we allemaal wakker worden in de natte droom van Elon Musks trollenleger? column Tim Christiaens, docent economische ethiek aan Tilburg University lees het volledige artikel op www.sampol.be/2026/01/ai-g...
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AI-gedreven seksisme: welkom in de Grokealiteit
Wordt 2026 het jaar waarin we allemaal wakker worden in de natte droom van Elon Musks trollenleger?
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.
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Cedric @cdtro.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
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Simon Truwant @simontruwant.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Heel interessant stuk over de rol van wetenschappers en experten in het publiek debat - zowel de rol die ze daarin zelf opnemen als die hen door anderen (journalisten, het publiek) wordt toegedicht. www.standaard.be/opinies/de-p...
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De professor zal het wel weten, toch? Of moeten we verder kijken dan die ene expert?
Leunen we als journalisten soms te veel op de kennis van academici en specialisten, zeker bij complexe thema’s en netelige vragen? Een zelfkritische blik op experteninterviews, verantwoordelijkheid en kwetsbaarheid.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/11/2025
this is how you do investigative journalism
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Pieter @pstaelens.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
😂😂😂
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"To most NYC voters, Mamdani is known for his smile, his charisma, and his wish to make the city a more affordable place." WSJ: ran >50 editorials & op-eds attacking him. NYT: We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots. WaPo: Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.
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Pensioenspook @caraforever.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Nederlandse peilingen zaten er weer behoorlijk naast. En toch gaat men volgende keer weer heel dat peilingcircus opvoeren.
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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Emma Bolton @emmabolton.com · 28/10/2025
“The conviction that generative AI is inevitable leads to it creeping in everywhere, and this eventually makes it seem inevitable. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there’s nothing inevitable about it. What’s happening is the result of specific choices.” - Wim Vanrie So important to remember.
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Koen Van Laer @koenvanlaer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The Organization journal editorial on Palestine is out. It's entitled: Facing the facts of the Gaza genocide: Refusing complicity, organizing solidarity You can read the full text here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4XRGF...
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Cedric @cdtro.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"Ja maar Trump" vrtnws.be/p.lOj84EqkE
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Gevangenispersoneel mag niet meer klagen: logo en slogan 'Justitie wankelt' verboden door ministerraad | VRT NWS: nieuws
'Justitie wankelt. Overbevolking is onveilig, vandaag voor ons, morgen voor u.' Die boodschap mag niet langer gebruikt worden bij het ondertekenen van mails die vertrekken vanuit het gevangeniswezen. ...
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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings Miami!
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Okke Ornstein @ornstein.org · 13/10/2025
Kijk, journalistiek!
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Koen Van Laer @koenvanlaer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Voor het Tijdschrift voor HRM schreef ik een column over de backlash tegen EDI in organisaties. En over waarom organisaties die het echt menen met EDI nu hun nek moeten uitsteken en niet mogen plooien onder druk van anti-EDI politici en opiniemakers tijdschriftvoorhrm.nl/edi-onder-vu...
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EDI-programma's binnen organisaties: een nieuwe balans
EDI-programma's liggen onder vuur. Wat moeten organisaties doen om de strijd tegen ongelijkheid te verdedigen?
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“Grassroots unions across Italy called for a 24-hour general strike on Monday in solidarity with the people of Gaza […] From Milan to Palermo, Italians poured on to the streets in at least 75 municipalities across the country. + www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war
Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive
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Nicolas Cadène @ncadene.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Une seule image qui met à bas tout le discours ridicule visant à faire porter la violence à la gauche : 👉93% des meurtres extrémistes sont d’extrême droite.
Graphique recensant les meurtres aux US par proximité politique.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2025
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 01/09/2025
Wereldwijd worden nieuwe digitale technologieën ingezet om de ‘toeloop van migranten’ te controleren, ziet advocaat en antropoloog Petra Molnar. Mensenrechten worden geschonden en regulering ontbreekt. 👉 buff.ly/M82VCIb
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Pieterjan Huyghebaert (VRT NWS) @pjhuyghebaert.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Ik ben bang van de raketten en om te sterven in de oorlog": schrijnende verhalen van kinderen tonen impact van hongersnood in Gaza
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"Ik ben bang van de raketten en om te sterven in de oorlog": schrijnende verhalen van kinderen tonen ware impact van hongersnood in Gaza | VRT NWS: nieuws
De inhoud van de video is gemaakt door Palestijnse journalisten in de Gazastrook, in opdracht van de Europese Radio-unie (EBU). Zij verzamelden in augustus 3 weken lang interviews en beelden van kinde...
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