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Pascal Lapointe

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Journaliste scientifique, rédacteur en chef de Science-Presse : @sciencepresse.bsky.social La rubrique de fact-checking Le #DétecteurDeRumeurs. Le cours en ligne Décoder l’info scientifique. www.sciencepresse.qc.ca

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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 17h
2/2 Google did not directly answer questions about whether it has delisted We News, and whether that was the result of news coverage about its AI “journalists.” (...) But Arsenault questioned whether Big Tech companies should be “playing hall monitor and being arbiters of truth”
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Byline or bot? AI-generated 'journalists' start to appear in Canada
OTTAWA — Quebec correspondent "Geneviève Tremblay" — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 17h
1/2 "We News isn’t hiding its use of AI and clearly labels its “journalist” profiles — including photos of what appear to be human beings — as AI generated." vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/10/03/b...
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Byline or bot? AI-generated 'journalists' start to appear in Canada
OTTAWA — Quebec correspondent "Geneviève Tremblay" — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
4/ "Most people think that AI is an existential risk. But it’s actually the people who are building it that are the existential risks to humanity." -Timnit Gebru www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/ti...
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
« J’ai écrit mes quatre premiers livres avant l’arrivée de l’intelligence artificielle », rappelle-t-il.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3/3 Timnit Gebru, une des gagnantes cette semaine des prestigieux prix Right Livelihood. "For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency." www.dw.com/en/alternati...
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'Alternative Nobel' honors women's rights activists, AI researcher
The Right Livelihood Award has gone to a female AI researcher and women fighting repression. The Sweden-based prize has been dubbed an "alternative Nobel."
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2/3 Par exemple: “AI” scribes used by hospitals erroneously classifying patients as illicit drug users. Governments killing children after relying on “intelligence analysis” systems which mistake schools for military facilities. -Timnit Gebru www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1/3 "Unlike the unscientific and fantastical claims, the harmful, and well-documented, impacts of these companies’ products have arisen because people believe that the products are superintelligent, not because they actually are." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 01/10/2026
🎙️ BALADO | Physique quantique et pseudosciences 🐱 Le chat de Schrödinger illustre l’étrangeté de la physique quantique. Dans une boîte, un atome radioactif relié à un dispositif mortel et un chat, qui pourrait être, à la fois, vivant et mort. @scichefqc.bsky.social 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/b5e54129
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😁 2/2 My family, Ochs-Sulzbergers, has stewarded The Times for130 years. How that looks behind the scenes is much less interesting than“Succession.”That is not just because we’re boring, though being boring helps. It’s because our family’s ethos is far too idealistic to survive a TV writers’ room
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Opinion | Five Generations, One Newspaper
How on earth did The New York Times, a seemingly ossified institution in a dying industry, survive the most destabilizing period in its history — and emerge stronger?
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
L'éditeur du NYT: 1/2"In today’s business environment, too many people see values as liabilities. Our experience has taught us the opposite. Values like independence, integrity and public service are central to our work. And we have found that staying true to them is central to our business success
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Il n'y a pas si longtemps, ça aurait été un article de The Onion.
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 30/09/2026
Est-ce que la « bouillie » générée par l’IA commence à atteindre les revues médicales? Si ce sont de vraies études, ce n’est pas de la fraude —mais ce sont des études peu utiles, que des revues n’auraient jadis pas publiées, et qui posent à nouveau la légitimité du principe «
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Publier ou périr: le vieux principe mis en échec par l’IA?
Est-ce que la «bouillie» générée par l’IA —ce que les anglophones appellent le AI slop— commence à atteindre les revues médicales? Si ce sont de vraies études, ce n’est pas de la fraude —mais ce sont des études peu utiles, que des revues n’auraient jadis pas publiées, et qui reposent la légitimité du vieux principe «publier ou périr».
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2/2 « In past administrations, just two or three political appointees had purview over the C.D.C. Now, there are nearly 20 political appointees, sometimes directing to spend time and funding on dubious theories outside the agency’s scope » www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Le C.D.C. « zombifié » : 1/2 Interviews with more than 30 current and former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs effectively www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2/2 « If a politician tells one blatant lie, it’s likely to get heavy coverage; if a politician tells blatant lies every week for years, it’s likely that most outlets will cease viewing them as news and that the majority will be treated as background noise » www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tous les héros n’ont pas des capes. 1/2 « Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate Donald Trump » www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Le 2e Sommet MAHA (le mouvement de RFK) s'est tenu sans le mouvement MAHA. "Without the grassroots coalition of health freedom activists and anti-vaccine parents that gave the movement its name."
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 29/09/2026
Une lettre commune, cosignée par notre rédacteur en chef, Pascal Lapointe, sur les dangers de la désinformation en période d'élections.
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On est tous vulnérables à la désinformation
Ses conséquences sur le vivre-ensemble, la santé, l’économie et la politique sont inquiétantes.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#WorldNewsDay
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/09/2026
“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.” nyti.ms/4dKfh3F
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bon texte du collègue @andrelavoie.bsky.social sur le journaliste Gil Courtemanche, « lui dont la plume acérée et la connaissance approfondie de la société québécoise et de la scène internationale lui ont valu l’admiration de nombreux lecteurs ». Dont moi. www.ledevoir.com/lire/1011917...?
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Faut-il relire... Gil Courtemanche?
Celui qui est décédé il y a 15 ans observait le monde avec les yeux du journaliste et le cœur de l’écrivain.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sur ce même sujet, cet autre gros livre que j'ai lu il y a quelques mois, par 2 historiens des science qui ont contribué à faire connaître le rôle délétère de l'industrie pétrolière et, avant cela, celle du tabac. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Market rules should benefit the majority of the citizenry’: historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway
In their new book, The Big Myth, the authors document the rise of ‘market fundamentalism’ and Americans’ relationship with government regulations
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1/2 Comment le regroupement des compagnies pétrolières, il y a 100 ans, "evolve beyond simply representing the industry’s interests but embark on this much bigger project to shape public discourse around the role of the free markets and what we should expect from government."
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 24/09/2026
🎙️ BALADO | Physique quantique et pseudosciences Contrairement à ce que prétendent certains, la #PhysiqueQuantique ne s’applique pas au monde des humains! Elle s'applique à des particules! #PseudoSciences #DétecteurDeRumeurs @scichefqc.bsky.social 👉 Écouter : share.transist
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pas mal. :-)
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Le mot « quantique » , devenu une sorte d’étiquette magique pour donner un vernis scientifique à des affirmations pseudoscientifiques qui méritent d’être déboulonnées."
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2/2 On peut aller loin avec cette explication. "The incident isn’t a case of an AI agent going rogue; rather the agent was given instructions to find certain information and it found a way to gain access to non-public information. “The agent is not a legal person” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI agent hacks government website for first time: why this breach matters
An OpenAI agent accessed secure data on an Australian health-care website, but the incident wasn’t reported for months.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1/2 Que l'IA soit entrée dans ce serveur est une grosse nouvelle. Mais la partie significative:"Though the company learned in August, it didn’t notify Australian authorities until 10 September. It then took more than 5 days to reach the cybersecurity department" www.newscientist.com/article/2590...
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OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government healthcare website | New Scientist
There has been a string of incidents reported over the past few months where AI agents have hacked companies. Now, a case involving a government website has been revealed for the first time
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
La compagnie US de journaux locaux McClatchy coupe dans les équipes journalistiques. Pour les remplacer par l'IA? "The “content scaling agent,” an AI tool that uses a chatbot to repackage human-written news articles for different audiences — complete with reporters’ bylines. san.com/cc/inside-a-...
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Inside a newspaper chain’s transformation from local news to AI-generated ‘content’
McClatchy Media didn’t wait a week after firing journalists before announcing hires for its new AI-powered “Content Innovation Lab.”
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Le PDG de Nvidia fait rire de lui parce qu'il semble confondre "perdre des compétences en maths à cause de l'IA" avec "oublier son adresse parce qu'on a un chauffeur".
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
« Les influenceurs peuvent ne pas se rendre compte qu’ils font désormais partie d’un nouvel écosystème. Ils pensent qu’ils vont rester les mêmes, mais la réalité, c’est qu’il y a une ligne de parti et qu’ils perdent leur liberté de parole.  » plus.lapresse.ca/screens/e68d...
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Campagne électorale | L’influence des influenceurs
Candidats, intervieweurs, commentateurs et créateurs de contenu… Les influenceurs sont partout durant cette campagne électorale. Notre chroniqueuse s’est entretenue avec des expertes pour comprendre l...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2/2 « The very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead. » -Trump www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/p...
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Fact check: Trump’s false claims to the United Nations | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Contraste. 1/2 For decades, “big oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer – and cashed in on the consequences. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five major western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits.” -Guterres www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Superpowers cannot solve world’s problems, UN chief says in final general assembly address
António Guterres says humanity faces unprecedented convergence of threats but mechanisms for collective action are under growing strain
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 21/09/2026
La catastrophe survenue au Népal le 26 août pourrait-elle être un tournant dans la façon dont les médias associent des événements météorologiques extrêmes aux #ChangementsClimatiques? « Davantage de médias d’information ont fait la connexion », analyse le directeur de Covering Climat
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Catastrophe au Népal, changements climatiques et médias
La catastrophe survenue au Népal le 26 août pourrait-elle être un tournant dans la façon dont les médias associent des événements météorologiques extrêmes aux changements climatiques ? Il est trop tôt pour l’affirmer, mais «davantage de médias d’information ont fait la connexion», analyse le directeur et co-fondateur de l’initiative journalistique Covering Climate Now.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2/2 Mais si la volonté y était, ça pourrait aller plus loin. «We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have ‘access’ to Trump. Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest. In other words, don’t abandon the job. Report aggressively from “off campus”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events | Margaret Sullivan
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week’s sudden lockout ‘a direct assault on the first amendment’. That’s right
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/2 Cette suspension par les grands réseaux est un cas rarissime : « Despite Mr. Trump’s years of lawsuits and threats against the news media, news organizations have rarely undertaken this kind of collective action » www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bars CNN (Gift Article)
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 18/09/2026
L’IA pourrait-elle développer des armes biologiques —ou aider quelqu’un à en créer? Si la question, qui a été soulevée ces dernières semaines, a de quoi inquiéter, on peut trouver une raison de se rassurer en regardant non pas dans le présent, mais dans le passé.
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IA et armes biologiques: la crainte est-elle légitime?
L’IA pourrait-elle développer des armes biologiques —ou aider quelqu’un à en créer? Si la question, qui a été soulevée ces dernières semaines, a de quoi inquiéter, on peut trouver une raison de se rassurer en regardant non pas dans le présent, mais dans le passé.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“He has this kind of safety valve in Natalie Harp. Whatever unfortunate information he may be getting that is true,she will give him things that he wants to hear. The world in which everyone loves him, his polls could not be higher,the war is going great”(à13:18) www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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The Pentagon is Waging War on Its Own Paper | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth is demanding what he calls “more patriotic” coverage of his cabinet. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the Pentagon is cracking down on its publicat...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
« During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university » www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true."
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Journalists at Fox News have also taken issue with the ban. One Fox contributor, Ari Fleischer, said conservatives should challenge liberal reporters. “Argue and defeat them,” he said. “Don’t ban them. Or one day they’ll ban us.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Trump Administration Updates: CNN, Politico and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House
President Trump announced a ban on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will probably be challenged in court.
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Agence Science-Presse @sciencepresse.qc.ca · 17/09/2026
En Pennsylvanie à quelques centaines de kilomètres au sud de Montréal, il y a désormais quatre décès causés la rougeole. Ce qui suggère que le nombre de cas est beaucoup plus élevé que ce qui est officiellement rapporté.
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États-Unis : une nouvelle éclosion de rougeole sous-estimée?
En Pennsylvanie à quelques centaines de kilomètres au sud de Montréal, il y a désormais quatre décès causés la rougeole. Ce qui suggère que le nombre de cas de rougeole est beaucoup plus élevé que ce qui est officiellement rapporté.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18/09/2026
“This is what it means to be the country’s paper of record: a great and imperfect newspaper steadfastly chronicling a great and imperfect nation,” A.G. Sulzberger writes on The New York Times’s 175th anniversary.
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Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: The Story of America, Told in 15 Million First Drafts of History
The Times has witnessed the country’s transformation. It will keep its eyes open.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m watching so you don’t have to www.ms.now/news/news-an...
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Amid measles outbreaks, RFK Jr. headlines anti-vaccine conference
The Children’s Health Defense conference is a homecoming of sorts for Kennedy, who seeks to rally a splintering anti-vaccine movement ahead of the midterms.
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2/2 "Now these CEOs are saying “Please regulate us” as if they weren’t the ones who not only demanded this wild West but bankrolled it and created the strategic alliance with Donald Trump. And now they’re realizing, “OK, maybe we’ve gone too far.” And Trump is going, “No way.”
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“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1/2 "What they were upset under the last administration was there were some, very simple rules. Like. label deepfakes, guardrails against precisely what they are now talking about with weapons systems, a rogue AI. All of this was on the table years ago." www.democracynow.org/2026/9/15/kl...
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“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve...
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"No A.I. executive is publishing long manifestoes on how to resolve the backlash against the data center buildout. The backlash would not matter if progress rested solely on a steady diet of capital. But it also requires land — for the supercomputers and for the electric plants"
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Pascal Lapointe @paslap.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah bon. Problème réglé.
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