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Media & autocrats / pug kahu www.gazzetta.xyz

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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 13/08/2026
Final call for #tbd/con pitches. Deadline this Friday (tomorrow!) If you know someone who should be in this room, this is the moment to nudge them. gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon-update-4
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tbd/con update #4: last call, four days left to pitch
woohoo!
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 30/06/2026
Rare opportunity: the wonderful nerds at the @opentechfund.bsky.social are hiring three program managers! www.opentech.fund/jobs/working...
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Working at OTF
OTF is an independent non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting internet freedom globally to ensure that all people can access information, communicate, and associate freely online without fear of...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/05/2026
Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He’s funding the people who lose the subscribers. trib.al/upvkjLt
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Nobody Asked for This Washington Post Podcast
Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 21/05/2026
Performing virtue for clout and status is the most transparent thing. Everyone can see the price tag.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 20/05/2026
塞翁失马
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 20/05/2026
"The importance of local knowledges, identity, and difference in confronting epistemicidal AI lies, therefore, in the capacity of these knowledges to resist the imposition of a single model of rationality and to affirm diverse ways of interpreting and organizing the world." ip.rec.br/en/blog/epis...
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Epistemicidal AI and the Continuity of the Colonial Project – IP.rec
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/05/2026
Seen in Logan Square
Sticker on alley wall that reads PART OF BEING NICE IS BEING MEAN TO FASCISTS with image of fist
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16/05/2026
“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual
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AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
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Jonathan Bellack @bellack.com · 15/05/2026
The “social media” platforms we demonize today are actually multiple suspects. danah boyd (@zephoria.bsky.social) and Ben Werdmuller (@werd.io) have unpacked the term in ways that could have major benefits for both the child safety debate, and the case for democratic representation online. 1/6
platformocracy.com
Social media vs. parasocial media vs. social networking
The “social media” platforms we demonize today are actually multiple suspects in a trench coat. Separating out key use cases makes it easier to talk about practical ways to reduce harm and take back c...
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Louise Crow @itscrowbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My piece on government AI in Public Technology today www.publictechnology.net/2026/05/13/s... As more AI systems are used in government, we need to get better at asking questions about them and getting meaningful answers.
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We need to get better at asking questions about government AI systems
As the use of LLMs and other automated tools grows across public services, citizens, civil society and external experts must be engaged in democratic oversight, argues Louise Crow of mySociety ...
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 12/05/2026
Something by @pboehler.net that matters very much today. www.gazzetta.xyz/journalism-v...
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Journalism vs. propaganda: it's not about numbers
An essay for re/visions, the bilingual editorial journal in the orbit of the Lviv Media Forum on what journalism can do that propaganda cannot.
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Tor Project @torproject.org · 11/05/2026
Let's make sure that people continue to have access to tools that shield them from surveillance. #FundInternetFreedom @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy @guardianproject.bsky.social @openarchive.bsky.social @unredacted.org @osservatorionessuno.org
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Overheard someone wondering aloud why anyone would want to make it appear that the reflecting pool is filled with the blood of a thousand Smurfs.
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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Scoop by Swedish public service news: ”Hide the pain Harold” celebrating Péter Magyar swearing in as prime minister. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
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Här firar ”Hide the pain Harold” efter att Magyar svurits in i parlamentet
”Hide the pain Harold” är ett av världens mest kända memes. Han heter egentligen András Arató och var på plats och firade Magyars valvinst. – Jag är väldigt glad att jag som 80-åring får vara med och ...
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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
CNews en chute libre passe derrière BFM et LCI. Pourtant ses méthodes, ses discours politiques et ses vedettes sont recrutés partout. www.liberation.fr/economie/med...
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CNews rétrogradée à la troisième place des chaînes d’info
Battue par BFM TV et LCI selon les chiffres Médiamétrie dévoilés ce lundi 4 mai, l’antenne du milliardaire d’extrême droite Vincent Bolloré a perdu une bonne partie de son audience ces derniers mois.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 03/05/2026
my late, latest, late monthly newsletter, on navigating fraught systems
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Re:filtered #28: Radical acceptance
We navigate complex systems. Our power is limited. Starting anywhere else is how you burn out.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/05/2026
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
incroyable
The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously considered herself a supporter of President Trump and so admired his policy to deport illegal immigrants that she thought it should be adopted in France.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Scoop: Rednote (aka 小红书/Xiaohongshu) is taking steps to separate its Chinese and international users. Users report being redirected to new intl web domain, whose separate privacy policy, updated in late March, says intl user data will be stored in Singapore. www.wired.com/story/rednot...
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Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
As the platform expands abroad, it’s taking steps to separate Chinese users from the international audiences it once brought together.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 22/04/2026
Taking my newsletter to @leaflet.pub
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Re:filtered #27: The house sets the odds
What stands between journalism and the people it seeks to serve.
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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 17/04/2026
“There are a lot of things we don't see because they have not been submitted or that we might not be able to appreciate because people have not known how to articulate the value of their work.” Patrick Boehler, founder of Gazzetta.
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Rethinking journalism awards
Everyone loves to win awards. But what does it mean to reward good journalism?
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 15/04/2026
We're rebuilding the Gazzetta website from the ground up. If you have thoughts or ideas, I'm all ears! www.gazzetta.xyz
an illustration of a magpie building something that's then really pretty and shiny
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 15/04/2026
"Information integrity" is the new "disinformation." Same organizations, same conferences, same funders, same unresolved problems, just a fresh coat of paint.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/04/2026
In light of Orban's loss in Hungary, it is SO vital to go listen to this @naomiaklein.bsky.social interview with @themaybe.org / @alixdunn.com. Don't mistake the muscularity of anger for real, sustained power. Fascists of all kinds are showing how scared they are every single day.
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The Maybe
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: A hack-for-hire group targeted victims with Android spyware and with phishing attacks to break into iCloud backups. The group, codenamed BITTER, has alleged ties with Indian government, and attacked victims in the Middle East and North Africa, including journalists and government officials.
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups | TechCrunch
Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 28/02/2026
Freedom.gov in an earlier version: web.archive.org/web/20051130...
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Freedom
Something big is coming
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If today's community call is any indication, I'm very excited by the potential about working on better gatherings for journalists. Thanks @pboehler.net and @madraekaras.bsky.social for leading that discussion. And here's a refresher in case you didn't catch their piece in Source.
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Our gatherings could be so much better
We say we welcome innovation, but our spaces preserve power
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 16/01/2026
Six years after the ‘Be Water’ rebellion, in 'Forever Hong Kong' Ching Kwan Lee interrogates the historical conditions and precedents that precipitated the 2019 revolt, reinterpreting Hongkongers’ political resistance as acts of decolonial defiance. A conversation with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social.
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Forever Hong Kong: A Conversation with Ching Kwan Lee
Six years after the spectacular ‘Be Water’ rebellion that rippled across national borders, Forever Hong Kong asks: What historical conditions and precedents precipitated the citywide revolt in 2019? H...
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 14/01/2026
This research from Gazzetta comes at a moment where it will be needed. If you are a journalist, I strongly advise you to read the results of this Gazzetta research as it could HEAVILY impact your career going forward. www.gazzetta.xyz/iran-persian...
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How five AI models source Iran-related information in Persian
When algorithms validate bias over evidence.
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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 06/01/2026
Thinking back to how many times we picked up a new information tool (and often put down an old one)… Also, announcing EM Lewis-Jong from @mozdatacollective.bsky.social as a speaker for #PfP✨London
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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 06/01/2026
Plus shoutouts to: @hackshackers.com @standard.site @sphericalcowconsulting.com @werd.io @pboehler.net HNY 2026! Looking forward to more @protocolsforpublishers.com this year
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/01/2026
also true - at every point in Bari’s career she has been determined to make herself a star and this is the biggest platform she’s ever had to do it on and she is fucking it up and it is very funny and you will not take that away from me
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 15/11/2025
Weird is beautiful
Duolingo Arabic course sentence: New York is a weird city.
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