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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

⚖️ They argue that the Brazilian Supreme Court's robust judicial and regulatory responses demonstrate that even the most powerful platforms can be constrained, offering an imperfect blueprint for effectively curbing the excesses of the tech oligarchy.

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

👉 In this piece, the authors analyse the confrontation set by tech oligarchy, 'embodied' in Elon Musk and his platform X, against Brazil's Supreme Court and its rejection of Musk’s refusal to comply with judicial content moderation orders.

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📢 Another interesting addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 The article "Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy," by @jamesfitz2.bsky.social, Carlos Eduardo Barros, Debora S., and Rose Marie Santini is now available! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy

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deeplab @deeplab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Join us on 26 Feb for our next Deep Thoughts Seminar with Dr James Fitzgerald (DCU): Silencing Disinformation Research(ers) in Times of Autocracy. Hybrid | 3pm GMT | Wine reception to follow Register: deeplab@ucd.ie (in person or Zoom) @jamesfitz2.bsky.social

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brazilian lawmakers are debating a bill that would expand the definition of terrorism to include the activities of organised crime. Piece by Dr James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Security Studies at DCU, for @uk.theconversation.com. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3GbJdIu

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I’m published today in @folha.com, Brazil’s paper of record. I argue against the motion that organised crime in Brazil be re-classified as ‘terrorism’. In the other ‘corner’, Cláudio Castro, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, argues for the motion.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This @willsommer.bsky.social piece, on MAGA influencers embedding with law enforcement to capture cruel images of migrants for their social media followings, really captures what I'm talking about in my piece below on MAGA's deep structural problem here. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-viciou...

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My piece “Brazil’s Precarious Counterterrorism Project” is published today, in Português, in Outras Palavras (Other Words), as part of ongoing collaboration with NetLab, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. outraspalavras.net/direita-assa...

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Brasil: O perigoso projeto “contraterrorista” | Outras Palavras

Congresso debate proposta que equipara ação de grupos como o PCC a “terror”. É demagógica e ameaçadora. Ao dotar o Estado de carta-branca para perseguir e punir, ameaça a democracia, sob pretexto de e...

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Looking forward to presenting at this “International Workshop on Technology Justice For/From the Global South” tomorrow, at PUC-Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Will speak about genealogies of (critical) terrorism studies and how it intersects with current perspectives in disinformation studies.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

While Grok holds only a small market share compared to ChatGPT’s 62.5% dominance, access to vast government databases could provide a crucial competitive advantage.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Remember our conversation in 2016? Data has become the oil of the 21st century, and Elon Musk’s pursuit of IRS taxpayer data represents a modern version of industrial monopoly building

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is one gigantic five alarm fire.

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🐶 @AL- I’m here! @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Mind boggling when you see the entire confirmed list of agencies with mass firing of probationary employees, :

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What’s not a “journey” these days. Iconic mandatory cyber security journey vibes.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The best piece on Musk & DOGE that I’ve yet read. Finally, someone zones in on the video game vernacular that shapes so much of his (pathetic) behaviour and the juvenile frames by which his acts of destruction are carried out. There is no reset button. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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Opinion | Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work.

Everything is content.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2025

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

Twitter exchange in which a user makes fun of Musk for not understanding how SQL works and falsely claiming the government doesn't use SQL

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 06/02/2025

My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

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Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information

True to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” t...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Do online conspiracy theories have any impact? Do disinformation campaigns work?"

Elon Musk: "It's more than just USAID, but... yes"
Mike Benz: "I've been telling you guys forever that you've been living your whole in a carefully constructed USAID Truman Show, where none of the institutions you meet -- from the media, to public health, to universities, to NGOs, to terrorists -- are the institutions you think they are."

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I read this Thiel article and…these incoherent conspiratorial ramblings would not pass muster in an undergraduate classroom.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Poynter calls bullshit on Zuckerberg’s “censorship” claims, explaining that fact-checking is speech, not censorship.

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Thrilled to announce today @briannarosen.bsky.social as inaugural director of @justsecurity.org's new Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Initiative! We look forward to partnering with @blavatnikschool.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk). Stay tuned: www.justsecurity.org/106105/annou...

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Announcing Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Initiative

Introducing Just Security's new initiative on the challenges and opportunities presented by transformative technologies.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Roose nails this. Knows his stuff and delivers a well-written, piercing critique of the politics of Zuckerberg and Meta. Pretty essential reading, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/t...

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What’s Behind Meta’s Makeover Ahead of Trump’s Second Term? (Gift Article)

Mark Zuckerberg is positioning his company for a second Trump term — and revealing the hollow identity at its core.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I cannot understand why Bluesky (still) does not have a bookmark option.

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos. Satire has literally died. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

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Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own.

The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

There is a lot still to be analyzed about the New Orleans attack, but for MSNBC today, I argue that it is one more piece of evidence showing how we are failing in our approach to preventing mass violence 1/ www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | The New Orleans truck attack is an urgent national warning

The U.S. strategy for preventing mass violence and violent extremism is failing.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 31/12/2024

Elon Musk apparently renamed himself “Kekius Maximus” and changed his profile pic to Pepe the Frog last night These are all symbols associated with the so-called “alt-right” / online far-right, white nationalists, etc www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

Elon Musk changes name to “Kekius Maximus”

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Gëzim Visoka @gezimvisoka.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Looking forward to a productive discussion today at #EUI discussing peace and counter-infrastructures. Thanks @jdzankic.bsky.social for the invitation and for co-organising it! www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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War and infrastructure

Join this workshop to discuss how infrastructure influences conflict, security, and peacebuilding dynamics.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

And now X has verified Mangione’s account

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Day 2 at the UN 🇺🇳: Presented expert-level briefing on extremism in gaming spaces. My take: Value of these spaces where people can ‘hang out’ & socialise shouldn’t be discounted and may defuse extremist ideation. We must learn from past mistakes of CT re. misplaced intervention and suspicion.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Pretty cool to have presented ongoing work with NetLab (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) at the UN today, with Dr. Débora Salles. Reflections and discussion on disinformation and extremism in Brazil (and beyond).

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