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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻

@najabentzen.eurosky.social
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/‘na-ya/ ✍️ Policy analyst 📚 European Parliamentary Research Service @ep-eprs.bsky.social 💬 Information integrity, democracy

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h
Starlink access in Ukraine a decision for Musk, not White House, Rubio says reut.rs/4sdU3kK
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Starlink access in Ukraine a decision for Musk, not White House, Rubio says
US Secretary ‌of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine's access to Starlink were up to SpaceX and Elon Musk, not the White House, comments that suggested Musk may have restricted Kyiv's access to the service.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/10/2026
Despite the Trump administration's best efforts, Alberta votes not to break up Canada
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2026
Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What exactly does “democracy” mean to supporters of Christian nationalism compared to Americans who resist or reject Christian nationalism? Depending on the answer to that question, the remedies to counter Christian nationalism might look very different. kettering.org/christian-na...
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Christian Nationalism and the State of American Democracy in 2026
What do Christian nationalists mean by "democracy"? New Democracy for All Project survey data reveals competing visions of power, citizenship, and democratic values.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/10/2026
How long will states continue to let the tail wag the dog ... "Poland's Sikorski Asks 'Big Man' Musk if He Is Playing Politics With Starlink in Ukraine" www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“The targets of these campaigns are also selective. Minority academics, for instance, are much more likely to be accused of plagiarism and academic fraud by “anti-woke” campaigners. The accusation is then overgeneralised to impugn an entire targeted community, research discipline or institution.”
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/10/2026
🔺 NEW INVESTIGATION When the EU fined Elon Musk's X €120M, Trump, Musk and a US ultraconservative Christian legal group closed ranks. All were already campaigning against EU platform regulation,& work together We mapped it. We call it the Triangle of Madness corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/t... 🧵👇
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The Triangle of Madness | Corporate Europe Observatory
A trip through a MAGA campaign in Europe to roll back regulation of tech platforms, involving anti-abortion militants, links to European far-right groups, diplomatic pressure and outbursts at global s...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm surprised this hasn't been covered in the international media because it 💯 should - and is a taste of what's to come re. AI and hacking. In a nutshell - millions of Danish social security numbers + personal data were stolen. All enabled by AI and vibe coding. politiken.dk/danmark/art1...
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Angrebet på 8,7 millioner cpr-numre var skabt af kunstig int
Den formodede hacker bag historisk datalæk har brugt ai til at ’vibecode’ det program, der stjal millioner af cpr-numre. Kunstig intelligens har skabt et kæmpe sikkerhedsproblem, mener eksperter.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 13/10/2026
Glad to have some lessons in morality from the Tech Taliban. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry
Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Public service-medier i Danmark, Norge, Sverige, Finland går sammen om at sikre adgang til troværdig information, hvis nyhederne i et land ikke kan udkomme www.dr.dk/om-dr/nyhede...
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DR og nordiske public service-medier går sammen om sikkerhed og beredskab
DR-generaldirektør Bjarne Corydon og hans nordiske kolleger har på et møde på den svenske ø Gotland underskrevet en aftale, der forpligter public service-medier i Norge, Sverige, Finland og Island til...
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French Response @frenchresponsex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Anti-Censorship Crusader Accuses Censorship Critics Of Censorship For Criticizing His Criticism Of Censorship. t.co/TGdCS7LLRY Source : x.com/FrenchResponse/status/2108251…
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Euronews @euronews.com · 09/10/2026
The EU diplomatic service pulled its backing from a disinformation conference after US pressure, angering MEPs and NGOs who say it undermines the bloc's own defence of civil society. #EuropeNews
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EU diplomatic arm under fire for bowing to US over disinformation
The EU diplomatic service pulled its backing from a disinformation conference after US pressure, angering MEPs and NGOs who say it undermines the bloc's own defence of civil society.
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 08/10/2026
The disappearance of independent journalism, firsthand accounts and historical archives from the internet is helping Russia and other authoritarian states rewrite history and shape collective memory, researchers warn.
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How ‘Digital Oblivion’ Is Helping Russia Rewrite the Past - The Moscow Times
The disappearance of independent journalism, firsthand accounts and historical archives from the internet is helping Russia and other authoritarian states rewrite history and shape collective memory, ...
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Og det er jo nok også det, der er meningen: at de netop ikke skal være i stand til at gøre deres arbejde. Et af de “kontroversielle” paneler handlede om arktisk desinformation.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are aware of the political frictions related to the Lithuania disinfo conference. We expect no spillover impact and are still hosting the 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. The call for papers is open. For more information, see the conference website: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
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Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2027)
Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 08/10/2026
US pressure pushed some European governments to disown a Vilnius conference on disinformation, which had dared to ask if America itself was now warping European minds.
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EU disowns Vilnius event that warned of US political interference, but France maintains support
US pressure pushed some European governments to disown a Vilnius conference on disinformation, which had dared to ask if America itself was now warping European minds.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
'The recipients of the cable included U.S. embassies in France, Norway, Romania and Poland. The embassies each were told to tell their hosts — verbally, not in writing — that the U.S. was unhappy with the panels on American disinformation.'
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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning #disinfo2026 conference... www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
For background, this is the definition of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). Source: www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/informa...
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Compare these results with the framing of the debate around AI regulation in most mainstream media
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
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@tjekdet.bsky.social
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Danwatch @danwatch.dk · 06/10/2026
Olieselskabet Greenland Energy nåede kun lige at undskylde for ulovligt at have transporteret udstyr til Jameson Land i Østgrønland, før de to dage senere brød reglerne igen 👉 danwatch.dk/?p=54234
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026
Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.
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French Response @frenchresponsex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Enable free press ❌ Harass civil society ✅ t.co/F3BusL213j t.co/2TyXI2wkNL Source : x.com/FrenchResponse/status/2107509…
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.
The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
@president.europarl.europa.eu condemns sexualized deepfakes of women MEPs from across the House, echoing findings by @benmshultz.net. Key recommendation from the report: address the (lucrative) infrastructure that enables AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...
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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 05/10/2026
The @europarl.europa.eu stands strong against the targeting of women by deepfake pornography websites publishing false and altered images. Instead of humiliating us, it empowers us. Instead of silencing us, it makes us louder. Instead of scaring us, it makes us more determined. It must stop.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Any insights into what Alex Karp is planning to do with his forest in Sweden? www.arctictoday.com/palantir-fou...
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Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden - ArcticToday
The land covers an area almost the size of Liechtenstein.
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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Opinion: Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire. ft.trib.al/oaqobOj
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
The Denmark/Greenland deal with Trump offers key lessons for future dealings with great powers, argues Prof. Marc Weller @chathamhouse.org www.chathamhouse.org/2026/09/denm...
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Denmark’s Greenland deal with Trump is a victory for diplomacy over bullying
Denmark used its soft power to rally support and took the dispute out of the limelight – addressing underlying US interests instead of President Trump’s unacceptable public position.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Dagens gode nyhed fra @altingetdk.bsky.social: Forsvaret bremsede køb af Palantirs krigssoftware ovenpå Grønlandskrisen. Men at man stadig overvejede det så sent som i 2025? Og at PET+FE stadig bruger Palantir? www.altinget.dk/artikel/groe...
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Grønlandskrisen pressede Forsvaret til at droppe krigssoftware fra omstridt techgigant - Altinget
Forsvarets indkøbere var klar til at købe krigssoftware fra amerikansk techgigant, men ifølge Altingets oplysninger blev det bremset ovenpå Grønlandskrisen. Nu ses der på europæiske alternativer.
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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 16/09/2026
Parliament approved changes to accelerate defence investment and improve the EU’s responsiveness to security challenges.
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Must-read - well done, @benmshultz.net!
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 14/09/2026
Very proud to publish my latest report on the state of deepfake sexual abuse affecting elected officials, with my great colleagues at @agoradigital.bsky.social. We found 147 MPs facing varying degrees of depiction in or association with nonconsensual deepfake pornography. One hundred forty-seven.
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Who Gets Deepfaked? Measuring the exposure of European parliamentarians in deepfake pornography. - Agora Digitale Transformation
Author: Benjamin Shultz | Notes: Charts and graphic illustrations are included only in the PDF version of the paper. The project is led by Benjamin Shultz, Data Fellow at Agora Digitale Transformation...
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Call for Papers for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 Mar 2027, opens Tues. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. For more info on how to submit papers, see the Summit's LinkedIn page: lnkd.in/p/erwXfbXm
The Call for Papers for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 March 2027, opens on Tuesday.

Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns.

The Summit is interested in compelling research that examines who deploys malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns, why they deploy them, what power structures they create or utilize to maximize their potential impact, how to measure actors’ perceived salience of incentives, how to measure the impact of supportive power infrastructures, and what policies or practice might intervene on incentives or power infrastructures.

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit is hosted by: the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, The Psychometrics Centre - University of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, and Sage & Jester.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14/09/2026
Russia’s yesterday morning drone strike on a Warsaw-bound train near the Ukraine-Poland border was intended to push Western countries to stop their backing for Kyiv, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said today.
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Russia wanted to cow Ukraine allies with railway drone attack, says top EU diplomat
Prominent Western security officials were on a nearby train.
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 28/01/2026
US embassy removes flags with names of fallen Danish soldiers
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US embassy removes flags with names of fallen Danish soldiers
Copenhagen's mayor for environmental affairs, Line Barfoed called the move "disrespectful"
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
The value of human intelligence should ideally be reflected in increasing investment in education.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
EU, Meta and TikTok have agreed to create a dedicated channel with fact-checkers to flag disinformation linked to a surge of migrants arriving in Spanish territory www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
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EU opens channel with Meta, TikTok to tackle Ceuta migrant crisis
Thousands of migrants crossing into a Spanish enclave in Morocco were reportedly spurred by misinformation.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice. Heartbreak and rejection leave people emotionally vulnerable, and the manosphere pitch often comes paired with benign advice about standing up for yourself, being mentally tough, or becoming physically active. But getting yourself together with the expectation that soon everyone you meet will be forced to respect you inevitably leads to disappointment.

When that disappointment sets in, the manosphere has an explanation: Can’t find a girlfriend? It’s because women who make their own living can no longer be forced into marrying guys they don’t like. Can’t find a job? It’s because undeserving women and minorities are being picked instead of you, even though you’re better. Feel bad about yourself? It’s because our feminized society deprived you of a life of meaningful toil, military adventure, and elevated social status. It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others.
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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 19/07/2026
¡Felicidades, España! 🇪🇸 ¡Campeones del Mundo! ⚽️🏆 Un momento de orgullo para toda Europa 🇪🇺
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026
Timely and useful reflection on the potential downsides of over-securitising civilian spaces+collective cognition
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Naja Bentzen 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇱🌻 @najabentzen.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Is (or was) the age of reading a short anomaly in human history - are we entering post-literacy? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 07/07/2026
Great to welcome the Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin at @europarl.europa.eu in the opening week of the Irish Presidency. Together, we're ready to take Europe further: strengthening our Union, making lives easier for families, helping businesses thrive, and investing in Europe's own security 🇪🇺🇮🇪
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