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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The weeks-long investigation, details of which have not previously been reported, uncovered no records indicating censorship, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
“There is no evidence that Member States of the European Union are overreaching the DSA to censor and criminalize online content,” they wrote in conclusion.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

trumpkennedycenter.org "The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter."

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Paul Gogo @paugog.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Ça valait le coup de bloquer Russia Today…

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

9/ At some point, a question becomes unavoidable: how can we effectively fight disinformation when our own systems discourage, weaken, and sometimes punish those who combat it?

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8/ The result? An ecosystem where those defending democracy end up spending more time justifying themselves, defending themselves, or protecting themselves… than acting.

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7/ Absolute moral demands. Zero nuance. Zero context.While authoritarian regimes, for their part, have no rules, no transparency, no accountability.

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6/ But that’s not all. Sometimes part of civil society itself— your own allies— is ready to turn on you because your laundry is not whiter than white.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

5/ On top of all this, there are of course SLAPPs, well organised, led by state or para-state actors, whose goal is not to win… but to exhaust.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

4/ Researchers sued for defamation by European public media.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

3/ Western authorities spending years pursuing NGOs. With heavy procedures. Astronomical legal fees. For organisations working… in the public interest.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

2/ Within our own camp, obstacles keep piling up. International institutions publishing sensitive data without your consent.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

1/ We talk a lot about Russian disinformation. And rightly so. But sometimes, let’s be honest, we don’t even need the Russians to stop ourselves from moving forward.

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christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news: theins.press/en/inv/286477

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A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military Intelligence, the GRU, has dramatically stepped up its activities across Europe — from assassinations and acts of sabotage...

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/10/2025

Il faut lire le compte-rendu des sévices qu'ils ont endurés. Le système carcéral israélien est une insulte à la démocratie que ce pays prétend être.

Les quatre premiers jours de sa détention, Haitham a subi des interrogatoires. La suite n'a été que passages à tabac, humiliations et transferts d'une prison à l'autre, sans jamais savoir où il se trouvait. « Souvent, ils nous forçaient à nous dénuder et prenaient des photos avec nous », dit-il, marqué surtout par les suicides de ses compagnons.
« Ceux qui apprenaient que leur famille avait été tuée à Gaza buvaient du chlore ou s'électrocutaient au milieu de la nuit. Les gardiens déposaient leurs corps agonisant dans nos cellules pour simuler une mort naturelle. »
Coups, torture psychologique, privation de sommeil, lâcher de chiens : Anis Barhouma, 30 ans, un autre prisonnier relâché, a tout subi jusqu'au dernier jour. Au bout du fil, sa voix chevrotante fait penser à celle d'une personne âgée : « Ils nous disaient : "Il n'y a plus de Gaza, c'est terminé. On a exterminé tout le monde. "Ça nous terrorisait, on n'en dormait pas de la nuit. » Deux jours avant sa libération, son tee-shirt blanc se teinte de sang sous les coups de matraque.
«Ils se sont acharnés sur nous. Ils nous ont aspergés de gaz, même les vieux, puis ils nous ont laissés menottés au sol pendant des heures », détaille-t-il. Capturé en novembre 2024 alors qu'il fuyait la ville de Beit Lahya vers l'agglomération de Gaza, sur ordre de l'armée israélienne, Anis Barhouma ne comprend toujours pas ce qui lui est arrivé. « Pourquoi ai-je subi tout cela ?, souffle-t-il, heureux malgré tout de retrouver sa femme et ses deux enfants qui le croyaient mort depuis tout ce temps. Grâce à Dieu, ma famille est vivante, mais nous dormons sous une tente, face à la mer, transis de froid. » « Il y a de la joie, mais nous ne sommes pas en fête. Il y a trop de morts, trop de sang, trop de destructions », ajoute-t-il.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 30/09/2025

Face à la multiplication des opérations de guerre hybride menées par des commanditaires russes, une équipe de chercheurs s'est attelée à cartographier ces actions. Leur travail met en lumière une stratégie d'ensemble dont l'objectif est la déstabilisation du continent européen.

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"'L'ingérence informationnelle est devenue un business à Moscou" : derrière la stratégie de déstabilisation russe, une constellation d'acteurs

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Reading Jacques Ellul's (1962) book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. In it, he laments how American scientists had abandoned the term “propaganda” because it “cannot be defined with any degree of precision," calling that "intellectual surrender." We've been down this same road before.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In recent years, we've seen very similar conversations about terms like mis- & disinformation. Terms have been defined & operationalized in different ways. Effects have been hard to measure (often due to overly simplistic models). And some have argued the terms are useless & the concerns overblown.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A new bunch of social media posts emailed to Bellingcat today from Russia's Matryoshka disinformation team, with a new theme. All of them focus on European Muslim communities and pigs materials being used in various ways, clearly an attempt to create tensions.

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

That's about the same as all the people who have died in every war of the 21st Century, and includes millions of dead children. All blood on MAGA hands.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 26/06/2025

🔴 NEW REPORT Alongside ‪@reset.tech‬, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️

Our cover depicting "Operation Overload", featuring a blurry silhouette alongside screenshots and laptops.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.

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Kevin Limonier @kevinlimonier.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...

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OBrother @obrother.eurosky.social · 15/06/2025

Hygiène informationnelle : le Helsingin Sanomat, 1er quotidien de Finlande, annonce arrêter définitivement l'emploi de titres "clickbait" pour ts ses articles. "Le journalisme doit transmettre de l'information, pas faire gonfler les choses" (les faits ou ses chiffres de lectorat à coup de clickbait)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 26/05/2025

Trump agrees to delay EU tariffs until July 9 www.reuters.com/business/tru...

Trump : my tariffs aren't working.
Man : Have you tried turning them on and off again?

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 17/05/2025

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

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Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1...

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Gary Machado @garymachado.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Je te recommande aussi Takeover de Timothy Ryback, ainsi que sa série d'articles dans The Atlantic (notamment www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...)

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The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler

They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/04/2025

Elon Musk Creates Federal Employee Revenge Porn Database

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Literal fascism - playing this for crowds to cheer

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2025

at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Attending a conference where researchers in my field (studying online misinformation and manipulation) are commiserating over all of our canceled grants, all in service of this: so this man and his regime of propagandists and conspiracy theorists can dictate (un)reality without challenge.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

He is absolutely Trumpshit insane.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude. This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔 As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying. 1/

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

As we enter a period of major global instability- what The Economist termed ‘the Age of Chaos’ we need new thinking. So I’m delighted to announce this major new programme on Global Disorder, in partnership with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 25/04/2025

Grozev says he has been advised not to go to continental Europe because it's too easy for Russian spies/muppets to travel around the continent without leaving a trace. The UK is apparently safer now because of the newer and better border controls (including passport checks). youtu.be/6dqBmgXo2Uk?...

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Christo Grozev: the Russian spycatcher Putin wants dead | WTCTW Podcast

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