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Olga Belogolova 🌻

@olgs7.bsky.social
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Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.

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Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“The act of confronting that terror is, itself, an education for the writer, because writing is both vehicle and vessel for thinking – abstract made concrete, feelings translated into words” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education
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Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What an interesting way to end the academic year: www.cbsnews.com/news/cyberat...
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Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline due to a cyberattack.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Even if the EU’s age verification app and EUDI wallet improve data confidentiality and decentralize data to users’ phones, their promise of empowerment falls short due to centralized critical functions, writes Thijmen van Gend.
techpolicy.press
Europe’s Age Verification Push Raises Privacy Issues Beyond Data Confidentiality
Age verification mandates promise safer online spaces while expanding digital identity systems with uncertain consequences, writes Thijmen van Gend.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Minneapolis, Minnesota reminds me of a politically torn, unstable country in a transitional period before full-blown war with a repressive government. Maidan-era Ukraine, for example." A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...
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Intolerable Things
We'll all be Minneapolis soon.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
NYT lead headline: Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting
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UVA Law School @uvalaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social says a DOGE employee’s reported Social Security data breach could be a violation of the Privacy Act. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Trump: We've got a deal Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf The media:
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/01/2026
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Normal people don’t think it’s ok to execute someone bc their kids dad is dead btw.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
this is how every outlet should refer to X
Financial Times: Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public. The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
New tonight: More surprising than Maduro’s capture was that the White House plans to run Venezuela. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro was plucked out of Caracas, but the more shocking news was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 22/12/2025
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices..."“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/12/2025
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
guys bari lost glem
A tweet from Glenn Greenwald: 

Here's the deleted trailer for the now-"delayed" segment. It's almost impressive how much damage Bari Weiss has done to CBS News in such a short period of time. 

Someone quickly schedule a prime-time Town Hall with Alan Dershowitz to rectify the harm:
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"Our story was screened five times and cleared by both
CBS attorneys and
Standards and Practices," Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. "It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one."In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the state Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient," Ms. Alfonsi wrote."We have been promoting this story on social media for days," Ms. Alfonsi added.
"Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.
We are trading 50 years of
'gold standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet."
"I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight," she wrote.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/12/2025
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
Ms. Weiss said in a statement late Sunday: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/12/2025
anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/12/2025
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 18/12/2025
The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant. by Jakob Moll www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/12/2025
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
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Cosgrove_Outdoors @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"Hey ChatGPT, can you write me a National Security Strategy?" - Pete Hegseth
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The New US National Security Strategy
Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism: “We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.
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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 05/12/2025
Turns out the real civilizational erasure was the climate change we kept pretending doesn't exist along the way.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
History suggests that things don't go well when white nationalists are warning against "civilizational erasure" in Europe
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/11/2025
This family in Kyiv shares the same sounding videos every damn night. Civilians are being targeted while Russia conducts “human safari” hunting civilians with drones in other parts of the country.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 30/11/2025
As your Nebraskan Anger Translator I want you to know "I don't think he would be foolish enough to make this decision" is a devastating thing for your high school principal to say to your parents
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n
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Without proof, vaccine denialists leading
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines
The agency's top vaccine regulaith said hui deniew had found
that the children were likely to have died "because of" the shots.
But public health experts want to examine the data.
are skeptical given his established anti-vaccine agenda.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/11/2025
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/11/2025
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Commented on this @nbcnews story on the chaos of the recent X location product rollout. As tempting as it is to dunk on the "United States" accounts posting from unexpected places, I would caution folks not to jump to conclusions. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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X’s new location labels unmask users. Insiders say the idea was rejected for years.
A new feature meant to boost transparency on Elon Musk’s platform relies on data that researchers say can be inaccurate or easily spoofed.
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Long Lead @longlead.com · 24/11/2025
Although social media was the spark for a revolution across the Middle East, it soon proved to be in journalist David Wolman's words, "a tool and like any tool, it can be used for good or bad, just like a hammer.
Episode three cover of LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET with blue overlay on top of photo of Arab Spring protest in Egypt.
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