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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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Fonds pour une presse libre (FPL) @fondspresselibre.org · 29/09/2026

🗣️ La grande réunion publique du FPL : c'est ce soir à Paris ! Dès 20h, sur scène : Éric Vuillard, Lumir Lapray, Maboula Soumahoro, Ugo Palheta, Sara Trabi, Hélène Frappat, Magali Lafourcade, et @anttonrouget.bsky.social, journaliste à Mediapart, co-auteur de l'enquête sur Jordan Bardella.

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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

New ways to fight online #disinformation. How public institutions can get a handle on #AI. How civil society pushes back against election interference. This week, we’re speaking at and taking part in a range of events. Different topics, same goal: building a safer online environment for everyone. ⤵️

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

This isn't just a policy gap; it's a strategic gap that affects how credible Europe's regulatory framework (DSA, AI act...) can be long-term, and really effective. #DigitalSovereignty #FIMI #MediaEcosystem #EUtech #Disinformation

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

The argument is straightforward: digital sovereignty requires funding the oversight infrastructure, not just the technology itself. A proposed solution is integration into the next EU seven-year budget cycle.

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

For the media ecosystem and anti-FIMI work, this dependency creates structural vulns. Private companies like @checkfirst.network, independent researchers, fact-checkers, and civil society groups cannot guarantee continuity if foreign funding shifts; a risk during actual geopolitical tensions.

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

- Only 12% of the Democracy Stack's annual budget comes from EU institutional funds - nearly 60% relies on US government or philanthropic sources - total Democracy Stack operating budget: €144M/year

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026

This article from @techpolicypress.bsky.social highlights a troubling imbalance in the EU's digital strategy: while Brussels commits €400+ billion to AI and semiconductor infrastructure, the independent bodies responsible for democratic oversight remain heavily dependent on external funding.

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Data Frosch @datafrosch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Come learn about the AI plugin for Open Refine from no one else than @herve.checkfirst.network ! Arrive with curiosity, leave with practical, checkable AI-assisted workflows for your next data cleaning task 🦾💪 Grab the link to the meeting here: datafrosch.fun/pond.html The session is free 💚

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The Pond | Data Frosch

A community for and by nerds in the newsroom — join the Discord, subscribe to the newsletter, and read past editions.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Murielle S @frenchieinlimbo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

♦️ L'Allemagne 🇩🇪 déploie sa 45e brigade d'infanterie en #Lituanie pour défendre le flanc oriental de l' #OTAN, selon certaines sources. Il s'agit de la première brigade de combat allemande permanente déployée à l'étranger depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. substack.com/profile/3986...

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♦️ L'Allemagne 🇩🇪 déploie sa 45e brigade d'infanterie en #Lituanie pour défendre le flanc oriental de l'#OTAN, selon certaines sources. Il s'agit de la première brigade de combat allemande permanente...

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Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com · 20/09/2026

Our colleague Micah Reddy, @icij.org's Africa coordinator, and journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael have been missing in Djibouti City since Saturday. Djiboutian authorities must urgently account for them. www.icij.org/news/2026/09...

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Statement on missing ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy - ICIJ

ICIJ lost contact with our colleague Micah Reddy, ICIJ's Africa coordinator, and local journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael ("Kooki Mahmoud"), in Djibouti City on Saturday, Sept. 19.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 18/09/2026

Pt 3: I made this post about Google AI summaries misinforming us. Now Futurism reports that these summaries are only accurate 91% of the time. At the scale of summaries they produce, that means Google, itself, is producing 450 billion pieces of misinformation yearly! futurism.com/artificial-i...

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.

A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.

five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated.

In other words, Google has created a misinformation crisis.

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 17/09/2026

Knowledge management at its finest. kudos.

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · 15/09/2026

Ask a chatbot about a terror attack. It condemns the violence, then validates the ideology behind it 🥲 Learn more in our webinar "Reject then Launder": catching AI models validating extremist narratives in crisis, with Factiverse & SimPPL. ⏰ 17 Sept, 14:30 CEST 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

holy %+/= the Dutch train system just announced they are being sabotaged: piles of junk dropped across several different tracks simultaneously #netherlands #trains #publictransport

headlines in Dutch: great disturbance on tracks, train traffic in north and east severely out of order / cause of disturbance seems to be sabotage, stuff found lying on multiple tracks

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🌊 La Digue @la-digue.org · 09/09/2026

Des centaines de pages Facebook comportant des contenus d’extrême droite sont publiées à destination du public français, au Sri Lanka, en Algérie ou au Venezuela, et obtiennent des audiences massives dans un but lucratif.

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Sur Facebook, le lucratif business des contenus réactionnaires générés par IA

Des centaines de pages comportant des contenus d’extrême droite sont publiées à destination du public français, au Sri Lanka, en Algérie ou au Venezuela, et obtiennent des audiences massives dans un b...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The scale, speed and coordination of AI-assisted disinformation are outpacing the mechanisms designed to counter them. Pei-Chi Jao writes that Taiwan's year-end elections make that gap more urgent to close.

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China’s Disinformation Operations in Taiwan Are Changing with AI

AI-driven Chinese influence operations are targeting Taiwan with coordinated content, deepfakes, and social media campaigns, writes Pei-Chi Jao.

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@manhack @manhack.net · 08/09/2026

Un nombre croissant de pros de la cybersécurité déplorent la façon « IApocalyptique » de présenter les capacités des agents IA en matière de cyberattaques. À l’instar de la NSA, ils estiment qu’une bonne « hygiène » cyber/IT devrait suffire à s’en prémunir. @next.ink next.ink/254325/non-l...

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Non, les agents IA d’OpenAI et Anthropic ne menacent pas vraiment la cybersécurité

Un nombre croissant de professionnels de la cybersécurité déplorent la façon « IApocalyptique » qu’ont OpenAI, Anthropic et de nombreuses entreprises des…

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Now, someone with a powerful computer and an open-weight AI model—a publicly released AI model that is free to download and run—can execute large-scale scams."

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Sextortion Has Entered the Family Group Chat

Added to a text thread from an unknown number, these family members were surprised with pornography featuring a relative.

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 04/09/2026

Scoop: There's been *another* previously undisclosed AI agent breakout from OpenAI, this one discovered by an informal group of researchers in Berkeley. The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests. With @deepa.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter.

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 04/12/2025

Je vais le redire pour les cancres au fond de la classe : en Europe, vos droits sont plus sûrement menacés par la droite chrétienne que par l'islamisme, qui n'est pas une force politique constituée et ne le sera sans doute jamais.

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 02/09/2026

Clémence Guetté, députée insoumise et vice-présidente de l’Assemblée nationale, veut définir les cadres d’une « politique de l’amitié » bouleversant notre édifice juridique et susceptible de contrer tant l’extrême droite que le patriarcat et les logiques capitalistes. Par Joseph Confavreux

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Les lois de l’amitié, objet politique de la rentrée

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 01/09/2026

Maitre Rey (374 GB) Over 800,000 emails and file attachments from Maitre Rey, a notary service based in Monaco, providing insight into money laundering and the inner workings of the property market. ddosecrets.org/article/mait... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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Maitre Rey - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Over 800,000 emails and file attachments from Maitre Rey, a notary service based in Monaco. The records provide insight into the inner workings of the property market and Monaco's concerns about…

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François Quinton @francoisquinton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

« le plus gros défi est de « coordonner le rôle des différents acteurs », dit-elle : l’armée, la police, l’Agence pour le recrutement et la conscription, l’Agence des impôts… » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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La Suède, dans la crainte d’une guerre, planifie les funérailles d’une partie de sa population

Dans le cadre de la reconstruction de la défense du royaume scandinave, l’armée et de nombreuses organisations civiles se préparent, à travers des entraînements grandeur nature, à prendre en charge le...

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 31/08/2026

C’est meilleur en qualité audio, notamment sur le classique

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/03/2026

For researchers without access to the TikTok API, our new paper provides a nice little methodological cookbook for how to get the data you need for your studies without having to rely on TikTok for permission to study what's happening on their platform. #academicsky #comsky #phdsky

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Jules Le Hénand @juleslh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fin de partie pour nitter.net et xcancel.com qui permettaient d’accéder aux contenus de X, sans pistage ni publicité.

Page d’accueil de Nitter :

Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specific for now.
Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.
- zedeus, 25 August 2026

Page d’accueil de XCancel :

On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 22/08/2026

Tech giants and telcos are at war with residential proxy networks, which let hackers use your home/office internet connections for cyberattacks. For this.weekinsecurity.com, I explore why resproxies are a risk to you and your devices, how they enable crime, & what you can do to find and remove them.

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How residential proxy networks are hiding hackers in your home

Security researchers say residential proxy networks present a major threat by allowing hackers to commandeer home and office networks for cybercrime.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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John Dell'Osso @johndellosso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm proud of what we've accomplished at @investigativesimulations.org in the short time since our launch. The Lab's crime and corruption simulation game "Hidden Interests" had a great debut in Paris. One bit of feedback stuck out: "The workshop made me want to do this as a career."

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 29/07/2026

The parallel is striking: what happened to malware analysis (public disappearance, paywalls, geopolitical bias) already threatens FIMI analysis. IMS adapt, their operations grow opaque, and our collective ability to understand them publicly diminishes. #FIMI #disinfo

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 29/07/2026

Like malware, IMS evolve: automation, ML, composite infrastructures. The most detailed FIMI analyses will increasingly sit behind paywalls or confidentiality classifications. Public transparency will shrink while complexity grows.

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