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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“Is this a case of Donald Trump taking the US to a brave new economic frontier, or lining his pockets?” Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse looks at why the Trump family and US President are investing in cryptocurrencies. #Newsnight

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Nipper51 @nipper51.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Great prog tonight. A small but possibly significant saving is appointment letters. I get a message saying I have a new appointment and if I print the letter within two days, I won't get a copy in the post. I print it out and a week later, the letter arrives in the post.

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jennyjones.bsky.social @jennyjones.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Always worth noting: ONLY 37%voted leave in deeply flawed corrupted undemocratic ref where the precise leave deal was NEVER defined The RW screwed us all with the help of the media

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Nipper51 @nipper51.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Want to understand why American politics is such a shitshow? Check out this series of podcasts.

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BBC Sounds - The Coming Storm - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of The Coming Storm on BBC Sounds.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2025

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker, in January registered only 1,277 new cars in Germany it’s a drop of 59% compared with the same month last year www.ft.com/content/ea23...

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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 05/02/2025

Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X. Everybody dies.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In case you happen to read Camilla Tominey in theTelegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’ Not true The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

From a new study on NewsGuard's role in misinformation research: “NewsGuard has emerged as the most widely used database for source ratings and is especially popular in misinformation research for its comprehensive source-level trustworthiness scores” Read it here: journalqd.org/article/view...

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Best practices for source-based research on misinformation and news trustworthiness using NewsGuard | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be "reversed" through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny” medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-inf…

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Influential podcasts fuel 'harmful' health misinformation

Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be "reversed" through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Tomorrow will be a dark day. But we are a resilient people. We will get through this scourge. robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrow-w...

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Tomorrow will be a shameful day

But some reasons for reassurance

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/01/2025

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Home Secretary YvetteCooper has announced an ‘action plan to expose grooming gangs’ Under new plans, more victims will be given the power to have their cases re-examined, allowing police forces to pursue offenders and secure justice for victims and survivors

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NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Pro-Kremlin sources are citing a fabricated video claiming that eight Ukrainian military officials owned mansions in Southern California that were lost in the wildfires. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/154910460/...

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Wild Claims About L.A. Wildfires Get Millions of Views

NewsGuard has identified and debunked 18 false claims related to the wildfires

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So, Tories finally admit they left the EU with no plan “for growth”. They also had no plan for trade, science, the arts, business, jobs, training, education, travel, farming, fishing, borders, immigration, healthcare, regulations, food security… for ANYTHING… A catastrophe of prejudiced uselessness.

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Balladsandbookends @balladsandbookends.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If you’re interested in how conspiracy theories impact those who are victims of them, I highly recommend @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social’s “Conspiracyland”. As someone interested in the future of information literacy, this has been thought-provoking and heart-wrenching. #booksky #booktok

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

After 14 yrs of Tory neglect patients in England hospitals dying in corridors, pregnant women miscarrying in side rooms. Cupboards, car parks, bathrooms used as makeshift areas for patients All to fund tax cuts for corporations & the rich and facilitate privatisation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Patients dying in hospital corridors, say nurses

The Royal College of Nursing details harrowing cases from more than 5,000 nurses across the UK.

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Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is what public service broadcasting looks like. Kudos @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for last night’s prog. 👏👏👏 And yes …Betty is a Ledge! She should have her own show…(And her full compensation too obvs)!

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NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As chatbots push new updates and features, December fail rate jumps to 62% Shifting priorities toward new features over safety measures may have unintentionally contributed to this decline in accuracy and reliability. Read NewsGuard's full report here: www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/d...

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December 2024 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots - NewsGuard

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I can confirm - Betty Brown loved the cake (All she needs now is full financial redress) #Newsnight #PostOfficeScandal

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Donald Trump has said that a meeting is being arranged between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The UK has recorded its coldest night of this winter, along with widespread frost, with more bitterly cold weather expected over the weekend. The lowest recorded overnight temperature as of 09:00 GMT was -14.5C (5.9F) in Altnaharra, northern Scotland.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

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A little bit of hope after a terrible week

A survival guide to the next four years.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2025

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Professor Alexis Jay said that starting a new inquiry could hinder the implementation of the recommendations from her 2022 report.
"We have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it," she told the BBC.
She added: "I've certainly been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse in the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument."

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Nipper51 @nipper51.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social on your side Jess. Musk doesn't know what he's talking about. He should keep his toxic comments to himself.

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Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Sure one of the best views there is after take off

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Marianna Spring @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Brilliant few weeks back from US working on next social media investigations - for Panorama, podcasts & docs - exposing impact of online conspiracy theories and algorithms! Plus lots more episodes of Americast (with undercover voters) on BBC Sounds, analysis about X, and more.

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's appalling that the UK government is still using this man's social media system, when he blatantly espouses Germany's neonazi party www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’

German health minister calls US billionaire’s intervention weeks before election ‘undignified and problematic’

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NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

An AI-generated image claiming to show Tucker Carlson interviewing Bashar al-Assad in Russia has gone viral. It’s being widely shared by pro-Russian and pro-Iranian accounts. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.c...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

King Charles who loves killing foxes, birds, and badgers has been made Patron of the RSPCA. King Charles used his power to block a ban on Fox Hunting and to make sure it is the joke ban we currently have. RT if the RSPCA should remove him.

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I've just Googled "live process well", as said by the Bishop of Gloucester FOUR times on @bbcradio4.bsky.social The World This Weekend. The top results refer to the Linux operating system. Conclusion: the bishop is a robot

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My exhibition on homelessness opens in St Albans Museum and Gallery next month. I spent six years photographing and collecting the stories of people experiencing homelessness from all over Britain. The stories are hard to listen to.

Poster for the Outsiders exhibition at St Albans Museum and Gallery

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Elise Flynn @eliseflynn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The leading cause of death for children during the years when kids were not in lockdown because of Covid was ... guns. But the media will not talk about that.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“Musk pouring those sums of money into our politics… to me is quite frightening.” Speaking to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responds to reports that Elon Musk could donate up to $100m to Reform UK. #Newsnight

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Marianna Spring @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Big thanks to everyone who watches, reads and listens for trusting me to reveal real-world impact of what’s happening on social media - algorithms, hate, disinformation - and top teams & presenters! So happy with response to it all - and trolls of course. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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BBC Sounds - Americast - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Americast on BBC Sounds.

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NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

When high-interest news breaks, false claims inevitably follow. Here are some tips that helped us quickly identify and debunk these falsehoods. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/153205085/...

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing Sparks Wild Claims

Plus: Parody RFK Jr. Account Fools Liberals and Conservatives; No, Trudeau Did Not Post an AI Image of Trump Plummeting Off a Cliff

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