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Massimo Flore

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Exploring how information environments reshape power, legitimacy, and collective decision-making. Weekly insights → massimoflore.substack.com

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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Big Tech simply don't care about what governments and states consider dangerous. It's all about money. www.ft.com/content/5d6a...
ft.com
OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups
US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Far left party BSW proposed a coalition pact to neonazi AfD in Germany. They are United by their allegiance to Putin. Do you still think the horseshoe theory isn't real? Do you still believe Russia is not the primary threat to Europe? www.politico.eu/article/alli...
politico.eu
Germany’s populist left wants an anti-establishment pact with the far right
The AfD’s hopes for governing after state elections in eastern Germany may hinge on a left-wing party founded by a former communist.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not surprised by any of this. 👇
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It's unbelievable how trump's petty hatred against Obama destabilised the middle east, destroyed decades of diplomatic work, estranged historical allies, wasted billions of $, killed thousands, and made a rogue, oppressive, dangerous country stronger. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...
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Trump hits back at critics as Iran peace deal fuels debate over U.S. concessions
The deal sees both sides commit to further talks to reach a final agreement over the next 60 days and includes a $300 billion plan for Iran's reconstruction.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Just like Hillary shouldn't have run in 2016 and let Biden be the presidential candidate. None of this trump madness would have happened. But...
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Most reactions to Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas seem trapped in the news cycle. Some see confirmation of their own views, or political targets. 📬 This week, Future Frontiers argues that the encyclical becomes intelligible when read on the Vatican's timescale. open.substack.com/pub/massimof...
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Reading Magnifica Humanitas Beyond the News Cycle
Why Pope Leo XIV's encyclical makes more sense on the Vatican's timescale
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Lesson to America: this is what Biden and the democrats had not the courage to do in 2020. And now, everyone is paying the consequences. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Hungary Seeks to Oust President in Purge of Orban Allies
Hungary plans to amend the constitution to oust the country’s president as Prime Minister Peter Magyar presses ahead with a plan to dismantle Viktor Orban’s regime.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Extreme wings rising. If you are not worried, you should.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is the tragic normality of current performance activism fuelled by social media.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If it was not tragic, it'd be astonishing how incompetence, arrogance, and corruption ended up making Israel less safe.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
China doesn't need to beat America's AI. It just needs to write the rules everyone else has to follow. warontherocks.com/2026/05/chin...
warontherocks.com
China's AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership
China’s diplomats are on an “AI governance” offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China’s vice minister of science and technology championed
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is the inevitable result when incompetence meets arrogance. The Trump administration managed to destroy U.S. global hegemony in less than two years. It took decades to build, yet so little time to dismantle. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
foreignaffairs.com
America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China
How Trump and Xi could cement Beijing’s advantage for years to come.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump phone story is a peculiar one. In this instance, he is grifting his own most loyal supporters. It represents an unprecedented level of money grabbing, leaving U.S. institutions with a massive task to restore normalcy. If they survive. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
eu.usatoday.com
What's the latest on the Trump phone? What we know
To order the Trump phone, customers must join a waitlist on the website and pay a $100 refundable deposit.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
People does not decide based on rational data. They never did.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Si parla poco del vero valore aggiunto delle llm: mettere in ordine concetti e dati, aiutare nel trovare connessioni logiche, collegarle con un database di conoscenza sconfinato. Non pensano, ma aiutano a gestire.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A new interpretability tool lets developers look inside LLMs and trace the circuits behind their answers, and even intervene. The interesting shift is here, we move from explaining outputs after the fact to shaping how they are produced. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/1...
technologyreview.com
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
Goodfire wants to make training AI models more like good old-fashioned software engineering.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Who is in charge of this war? Not the congress, and now it seems not the president.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We need a more powerful EU.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Help me understand: China helps Iran targeting US bases with their satellites, but we cannot help Ukraine against Russia. The reason given is "russia nuclear weapons". What about US nuclear weapons? Are they less scary? www.ft.com/content/1fdd...
ft.com
Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases
Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ready for next Taco Tuesday?
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a man in a white suit and yellow tie is standing in front of a trump 's sign
ALT: a man in a white suit and yellow tie is standing in front of a trump 's sign
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Creepy with no pasta
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Talking about a more realistic scenario: imagine Margot Robbie falling deeply in love with me. Just imagine.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This looks like institutionalized post disinformation. Not just contesting results, but weakening the conditions that make outcomes binding. In 2020 institutions still closed the conflict. Now the risk is a system where closure no longer holds.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Sure. But in this specific example they pulled it from a scientific repository, not from social media. That's where I believe we should focus. How easy is it to publish bogus papers on these repositories? Anyone could have picked them, not only AI systems.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What this article seems to be saying is that someone deliberately polluted a scientific database with bogus papers, only to then discover that AI systems picked them. But isn’t that exactly how AI is supposed to work, pulling from sources we assume are reliable? Maybe we’re missing the real problem.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
There’s a crucial angle that’s rarely discussed: what is the U.S. Congress actually doing to protect NATO? Everyone is focused on Trump, but what are Democrats and Republicans doing to support the Alliance? Their silence speaks volumes. www.dw.com/en/trump-lea...
dw.com
Trump criticizes NATO over Iran in meeting with Rutte
President Donald Trump said NATO "wasn't there" after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran. But NATO head Mark Rutte said "a large majority of European countries" lived up to their side of the deal.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Short answer : no, it's not.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
True. And dressing everything with fascism helps it hiding in society.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I wonder how historians will cover this period of time in the future.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Interesting, how this can be done?
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Interesting, but how much of that growth on 'traditional' social networks was actually driven by bots and synthetic accounts?
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hybrid networks exploit vulnerable urban contexts, using low-skill actors, minimal costs, and online platforms like Snapchat. A pattern of outsourced, scalable micro-terrorism is emerging, changing how violence is organized. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
France Detains Two More Suspects After Foiled BofA Paris Bombing
French authorities detained two new suspects in connection with a foiled bombing near the Bank of America Corp. office in Paris, which officials have said is likely linked to the conflict in the Middl...
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Iran’s information warfare and disinformation campaigns largely predated the current war. It was the best-kept open secret that everyone chose to ignore. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...
nytimes.com
In an Asymmetrical War, Iran Seeks an Edge With Its Information War
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The informational ecosystem is becoming increasingly fluid, with boundaries dissolving. The rise of DAOs points to a deeper shift: the emergence of self-organized systems that can define and enforce their own rules, without relying on shared institutional authority. www.wired.com/story/a-dang...
wired.com
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
What’s striking here is that Fuentes is employing the same tactics Russia has used against Western democracies for the past 20 years. He knows that each side will only latch onto the parts of the message they agree with and dismiss the rest. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
How Nick Fuentes Is Charming the Left
Viral clips of the far-right white supremacist make him palatable to progressives.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If relevance no longer accumulates in a stable way, then recognition becomes less reliable as a foundation. What worked yesterday does not extend into today. The system still registers the past, but it no longer translates it into durable position. 🔗
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The Creator Economy Wasn’t the Real Disruption
Why the shift from celebrities to creators was only the beginning, and what happens when nothing stays relevant long enough to matter
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We thought the shift from celebrities to creators explained how the media ecosystem works today. That is no longer enough. Relevance does not accumulate and hold as it once did, it is continuously recalculated. 🔗
open.substack.com
The Creator Economy Wasn’t the Real Disruption
Why the shift from celebrities to creators was only the beginning, and what happens when nothing stays relevant long enough to matter
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How should we treat FIMI when it comes from inside the EU? How should we treat EU governmente that directly cooperate with an hostile enemy country? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a sign that says trump exit
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For centuries, producing knowledge required time. The effort of research, reading, and writing also created understanding. Generative AI changes that balance. Results can now appear before the reasoning behind them has fully settled in the mind. 🔗
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Producing Knowledge Faster Than Humans Can Understand It
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the production of ideas. Understanding them still takes time
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
When we read a book, the mind spends hours engaging with a single topic. Connections emerge, and ideas slowly reshape the way we think. AI can now produce analyses in seconds. The interesting question is what happens between those two speeds. 🔗
open.substack.com
Producing Knowledge Faster Than Humans Can Understand It
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the production of ideas. Understanding them still takes time
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Generative AI can now produce analyses and structured arguments almost instantly. Human understanding still grows through slower cycles of reading, reflection, and connection. What happens when ideas appear before the mind has had time to absorb them?
open.substack.com
Producing Knowledge Faster Than Humans Can Understand It
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the production of ideas. Understanding them still takes time
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A powerful skill to develop is metacognition. It's something that we can control and master. Not a silver bullet solution, for sure 😎 I wrote something about it open.substack.com/pub/massimof...
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The Fortress Within: Belief, Identity, and the Limits of Media Literacy
Why Facts Fail When Meaning Holds Us Together
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Much of the debate on disinformation still assumes that manipulation spreads through public platforms. When people increasingly turn to conversational systems to interpret events, political influence can move from public feeds into private dialogue 🔗
open.substack.com
The Next Disinformation Battlefield Is Private
AI companions, synthetic friends and the rise of the epistemic cocoon
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Yes. At the bottom right corner there's Gemini ai generated logo.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Last week I presented the latest developments of my research on AI companions and disinformation. Synthetic friends raise uncomfortable questions about how influence works when it moves from public feeds into private conversations. 🔗
open.substack.com
The Next Disinformation Battlefield Is Private
AI companions, synthetic friends and the rise of the epistemic cocoon
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
He Is frequently a guest in Italian talk shows. That also explain why Italy is one of the weakest country towards Russian propaganda.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If Iran regime falls, Russia loses one of its key allies in the aggression against Ukraine.
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Massimo Flore @massif.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up and saying `` exactly '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up and saying `` exactly '' .
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