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Marie Lamensch

@marielamensch.bsky.social
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Intl' affairs, human rights, global security, digital authoritarianism and emerging technologies expert/consultant. CIGI, Chaire Raoul Dandurand, and founder of upcoming Montreal Institute for Global Security.

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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Il faut pouvoir expliquer aux jeunes garçons qu’ils sont, eux aussi, victimes des dérives du patriarcat. Qu’attendons-nous pour appuyer celles et ceux qui travaillent à retisser nos liens sociaux ?” lp.ca/klXLbD?shari...
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Féminicides | Moi aussi, j’ai peur…
Récemment, mes collègues Patrick Lagacé et Yves Boisvert vous ont fait part de leur angoisse face à un monde en mutation. Ils voient dans l’actualité, avec raison, des signes de la fin d’un monde. Dan...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“From angry culture war posturing to his willingness to challenge the media and an obsession with image over substance, Hegseth’s qualities are fundamentally Trumpian, suited to a television personality and not a public servant.” www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...
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Everyone got Pete Hegseth wrong
The secretary of defense is now the most influential senior official in the Trump administration.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Toute l’Europe fait face a la guerre hybride de Poutine. Cyberattaques, propagande, ingérences électorales visant à déstabiliser le continent youtu.be/wLMpRuYe46c?...
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Mais à quoi joue Poutine ?
YouTube video by HugoDécrypte - Actus du jour
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yikes “Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Live Updates: Trump Greets Xi at White House, Where Pomp May Mask Tensions
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Killer AI Is Already Here. We’re Using It in Iran. "As AI companies enter the battlefield, “the scale of atrocities committed…is rising correspondingly.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/09/2026
Cherie Geng is trying to free her husband, a pastor, who was among dozens of church members detained by the Chinese police. Fearing arrest herself, she had fled with their son to Thailand. Now, as she tries to get her husband out of jail, she is rebuilding her life in exile.
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The Other Victims of China’s Church Crackdown
Cherie Geng is trying to free her husband, a pastor, who was among dozens of church members detained by the Chinese police. At the same time, she must rebuild her life in exile.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
« Attaque hybride » et chasseurs de l’Otan déployés : ce que l’on sait des alertes aériennes en Pologne, Lettonie et Lituanie www.leparisien.fr/internationa...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Iran and China used AI agents to automate influence campaigns www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
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Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Expert suggests creating united front tracker www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
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Expert suggests creating united front tracker - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Pentagon says it used Grok in strikes on Iran Its AI chief said it helped fire over 2,000 munitions. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Musk’s AI, Grok, was used in strikes in Iran, reveals Pentagon
A model derived from Grok, the 'Grok Gov Model,' is being used in a US military AI-assisted targeting program, according to the Pentagon.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Chinese regulators are dramatically intensifying tech enforcement www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
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‘Not a crackdown’: China regulators eye neutral enforcement in shift from 2021
Increased scrutiny of tech giants and finance firms seen as end to the era of administrative restraint as officials move to curb monopolies and price wars.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
German cybersecurity journalist Marc Hofer uncovered an unsecured prototype Chinese policing dashboard titled Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...
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The mysterious database that tracks foreigners’ every move
The discovery of an unsecured Chinese policing dashboard shows how authorities track people of interest.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
‘It is pretty hard to make the argument this is driven by foreign influence when you are dealing with people in sometimes very small communities showing up at town hall meetings angry about things directly affecting them.’ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Amid data center protests, a billionaire and the Trump administration see a foreign plot
Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say
Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tiny Drones in Ukraine Are Destroying Tanks An inside look at Ukraine’s burgeoning drone revolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMnG...
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Tiny Drones in Ukraine Are Destroying Tanks | GZERO World
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 10/06/2026
La projection de films gays à l’Institut français de Pékin victime des pressions des autorités chinoises
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La projection de films gays à l’Institut français de Pékin victime des pressions des autorités chinoises
Malgré un accord réciproque assurant une liberté de programmation au sein des instituts culturels, des agents de police chinois se sont rendus en personne sur place pour intimider des employés afin d’obtenir l’annulation des séances.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everything is this title tells you everything about Musk and Robinson. Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow
Activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared video of his meeting with Errol Musk
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another interesting recent report, this time on disinformation in political advertising in the UK from Reform Political Advertising reformpoliticaladvertising.org/wp-content/u...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man
X owner Elon Musk shared a post from Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley- Lennon) announcing locations of protests, and another from the far-right Restore Britain
party that read: "Do not make peace with evil.
Destroy it."
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Xinjiang atrocities: New reporting by the Financial Times maps the extensive network of prisons and detention facilities in Xinjiang, revealing the continued mass incarceration of Uyghurs." www.ft.com/content/119d...
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How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
AI is no longer just a tool of military innovation; it is becoming a defining factor in geopolitical power, with major implications for international security, civilian protection and democratic oversight. Here is my new article for CIGI www.cigionline.org/articles/ai-...
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AI at War: What the Ongoing Conflicts Reveal About Power, Technology and Ethics
As AI reshapes modern warfare, the gap between capability and governance grows more dangerous by the day.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The only thing Trump is good at is corruption. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
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Trump traded over $50 million in 'Magnificent 7' stocks last quarter, loading up on Apple and Google and selling Tesla
President Trump made 94 different trades of 'Magnificent 7' stocks in the first quarter of 2026, a new ethics disclosure shows, executing millions of dollars in transactions even as he was meeting wit...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
As much as the Strait of Hormuz has impacted the global economy, “these hiccups are nothing compared to the effects of a serious disruption to the flow of chips from Taiwan.” substack.com/redirect/2ec...
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Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage
Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
« Putin knows he can’t live up to the mythology he created, and everyone else can see that too. » www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Putin’s War Comes Home to Moscow
He can no longer hide the consequences from the Russian public.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
AI’s next phase plays into TSMC’s hands www.wsj.com/tech/ais-nex...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Not frightening at all... ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Why the EU sees Chinese solar tech as a major security risk. Europe‘s reliance on Chinese green tech creates compounding economic and national security vulnerabilities www.dw.com/en/why-the-e...
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Why the EU sees Chinese solar tech as a major security risk
Europe's solar boom is powered by Chinese technology. But experts warn Chinese-made tech could threaten the continent's safety and even create blackouts. Now, Brussels is aiming to reduce its dependen...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Of course China has hit out at the government of Eswatini for hosting a visit from Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. apnews.com/article/taiw...
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Taiwan's president says state visits are 'basic right' after trip he says Beijing tried to block
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said state visits are a basic right of governments after returning from a three-day trip to Eswatini that Taiwan's government says China tried to block.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
China dominates transformative technologies market in Africa. Huawei has built around 70% of the continent’s 4G networks www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
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🟡 Semafor Africa: Power problems | Semafor
In this edition: Kenya’s stalled data center, a DRC-Zambia power link, and Bobi Wine’s literary influences.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat www.wired.com/story/super-...
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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Some European countries have been developing a new drone doctrine built on Ukraine’s battlefield experience and Taiwan’s high-tech components thediplomat.com/2026/04/chin...
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China’s Sanctions Hit Europe’s Emerging Drone Doctrine
Several European countries have been quietly developing a new drone doctrine built on both Ukraine’s battlefield experience and Taiwan’s high-tech components. China is trying to sever that link.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Worrying news if true. #RightsCon, world’s largest human rights gathering, cancelled due to alleged Chinese pressure. It was so sudden and last minute that the allegations could indeed be true. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/worl...
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World’s largest human rights gathering cancelled due to alleged Chinese pressure
RightsCon 2026, the worlds largest annual gathering of human rights and democracy activists has been cancelled at the very last minute, allegedly due to pressure from the Chinese government. The gathe...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Beijing is learning a lot from Iran’s Hormuz Strait closure and how it could apply Tehran’s methods to a future conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan. thediplomat.com/2026/04/watc...
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Watching Iran, China Hopes to Learn New Tricks for the Taiwan Strait
Beijing is learning a lot from Iran’s Hormuz Strait closure and how it could apply Tehran’s methods to a future conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
La Russie suspectée d’avoir mené une campagne d’hameçonnage sur Signal contre la classe politique allemande www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
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Allemagne | Une importante cyberattaque touche la classe politique
L’ampleur « extrêmement préoccupante » du piratage de la messagerie Signal remet en question la sécurité des communications au sein du Parlement allemand, a dit vendredi à l’AFP un responsable parleme...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
À Hong Kong, un journaliste français expulsé et menacé par les services chinois www.intelligenceonline.fr/asie-pacifiq...
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Chine/France/Hong Kong • À Hong Kong, un journaliste français expulsé et menacé par les services chinois
Antoine Védeilhé, prix Albert-Londres 2024, a été arrêté à son arrivée à Hong Kong et expulsé en novembre 2025. Il est depuis visé par une violente campagne d'intimidation. France télévisions, qui
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
War memes are turning conflict into content www.wired.com/story/war-me...
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War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content
The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is mental twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Taiwan’s defence ministry said it spotted 16 Chinese warplanes operating near the island the previous day, around the same time China’s president was ​meeting the Taiwanese opposition leader. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Taiwan spotted Chinese warplanes as Xi met opposition leader in Beijing
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Saturday that it spotted 16 Chinese warplanes operating near the island the previous day, around the same time China's president was ​meeting the Taiwanese opposition...
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A little-known Mexican firm built a $1.27B surveillance empire now expanding across Latin America and into the U.S., raising big questions about privacy and cross-border data sharing. restofworld.org/2026/mexico-...
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A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border
Grupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Governments are hiding information about the Iran war online through restrictions on internet access and satellite imagery. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online
Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Countries are racing to deploy AI in military systems. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/t...
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Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Blocking the Strait of Hormuz to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is peak Trump foreign policy.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Report examines the gender-specific harms that occur when women, girls, and non-binary people are targeted with spyware and surveillance tools « The market for spyware is growing – and it’s being used differently against women » www.fullerproject.org/editions/rev...
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Palantir to Pegasus: How states use spyware against women
Digital tech is being used to intimidate women activists beyond national borders. It’s called gender-based digital transnational repression. Here’s what you should know
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Blocking the Strait of Hormuz essentially held the world’s energy economy hostage. China is watching. And they know “a blockade of Taiwan would hurt the global economy more than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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What China Just Learned From the Iran War
A blockade of Taiwan would hurt the global economy more than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
« Some experts argue that the guardrails added by companies like Anthropic and OpenAI can actually provide an advantage to malicious attackers. » www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/t...
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A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president says he has tried to draw White House’s attention to collaboration between Moscow and Tehran over strikes on US bases
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iranian hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure. Their focus is on energy and water infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/iran-l...
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Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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Marie Lamensch @marielamensch.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Mr. Vance is responding as he always has whenever ambition calls: He’s humiliating himself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...
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Opinion | How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?
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