Reposted by Richard SambrookIsabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 5hHearing the rest is history guys shill unquestioningly for anthropic really shows the limits of host-read ads 061
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026open.substack.com/pub/athenawo...open.substack.comRevealing the blind spots that weaken our disinformation defencesSharper forecasts, faster communication and tools to disrupt attacks: at this week’s Resilience Conference, Athena asked a panel of experts how the UK can reinforce its armour in the information war 031
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026gijn.org/academy/inve...gijn.orgInvestigating Who’s Behind Fake NewsIn this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Natalia Viana, co-founder of Agência Pública, shares her approach to investigating propaganda, disinformation, and fake news campaigns on social media. 051
Reposted by Richard SambrookStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857851249
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026“AI poses a threat. It will steal my writing, loot my reportage, rob my intellectual property and embezzle books which took years to write and research. But it will never know what it was like to be there. It will always be faking it.” historyneverended.substack.com/p/in-defence...historyneverended.substack.comIn defence of human journalismMy industry at a time of AI. 194
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026open.substack.com/pub/athenawo...open.substack.comExclusive: Ex-NATO chief calls on UK to urgently test its disinformation defencesFormer NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, talks to Athena about information warfare, Britain’s vulnerabilities, and why we must prepare before disaster strikes 164
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 111
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Malign disinfo reaches into ai summaries … www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...darkreading.comAttackers Manipulate AI in Mass Disinformation, Phishing CampaignHackers are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content. 011
Reposted by Richard SambrookKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media. 1412427546
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026www.verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-...verysane.aiIs METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?No. 010
Reposted by Richard SambrookDavid Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Good news from McCains 626062
Reposted by Richard Sambrookflossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Palantir have just signed a new £21m contract – this time with Britain’s grid operator. Who were the other bidders? Well, there weren’t any. The National Energy System Operator said it was too dependent on Palantir already to invite anyone else 🙄 www.ft.com/content/f6a2... 11417
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026Everyone wants to be a guru and thought leader. No-one wants to do the washing up. 350
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026madrascourier.com/opinion/why-...madrascourier.comWhy The Data Centre Bubble Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen | Madras Courier 031
Reposted by Richard SambrookMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Audition polaroids taken by Hollywood Casting Director Mali Finn, in the 1980's 1532705317
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026Exactly this spectator.com/article/the-...spectator.comThe day the Today programme lost the plotTo be clear, this is absolutely no criticism of Amol Rajan himself. He’s a fine broadcaster, a very nice bloke. 160
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026Oh dear Lord. We need to be better than this 🙄 Looking at posts on X is not “comprehensive public monitoring” and a rise from 7 to 12 in a month is hardly an alarming trend… (Also, responsibilty lies with developers not the tech …!) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comSharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research findsExclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July 061
Reposted by Richard SambrookAlan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@jayrosen.bsky.social, @sambrook.eurosky.social, and Ayala Panievsky talked about the normalization of extremism by media in our 2023 Journalism & Democratic Backsliding webinar with the Cambridge Disinformation Summit. youtu.be/MrAnVd35bcE?...youtu.beJournalism & Democratic Backsliding: thoughts on responsible journalismYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit 0137
Reposted by Richard SambrookDr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island. 956135723504
Reposted by Richard SambrookMark Krajnak @jerseystylephoto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hearing the great Jay Maisel passed away last evening. He was 95. RIP to one of the best. #Photography 082
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-the-n...dicktofel.substack.comWhat The Next Journalism Should BeA conversation with Tom Rosenstiel 010
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026Cheer yourselves up: ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 083
Reposted by Richard SambrookCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The BBC has now had to revise this headline 3 times to try and get something approaching impartiality I am incredulous as to what is going on there 51708214
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20243111201
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026Tom Rosenstiel always worth reading on the state of journalism www.latimes.com/.../202.../b...latimes.com 021
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026Very taken with this from the @financialtimes.com today - Henry Farrell weekend essay on Philip k Dick and relevance to our dystopian times. 1146
Reposted by Richard SambrookJohn Battelle @battellemedia.com · 07/07/2026Anyone else increasingly concerned about our drift into immateriality? battellemedia.com/archives/202...battellemedia.comJohn Battelle's Search Blog Have We Lost The Plot?“Our lives have become dematerialized.” That phrase – from author Ian Bogost in a short piece in Wired – struck at the center of something I’ve been trying to verbaliz… 053
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026battellemedia.com/archives/202...battellemedia.comJohn Battelle's Search Blog The Data Center Debate Rages. Will It Change the Course of History?Even though I ran a political media company for four years, I’ve largely avoided writing about politics, and I’m not about to make a habit of it now. But the politics around data center… 011
Reposted by Richard SambrookChris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 24/07/2026It's an AFP pic btw and yes, you're right. it's an image I had a version of in my mind even before it happened for real, spookily. share.google/oHaiv88cQMZG...share.google‘Oh, how we sweltered and argued’ – the long, hot summer of ‘26Some discourse is too hot to handle 022
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026Brilliant pic from @nytimes.com - sums up the climate crisis 3358
Reposted by Richard SambrookCambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, reports Anl Seth. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comOnce again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil SethDespite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and… 1118
Reposted by Richard SambrookCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm not the greatest headline writer, in part because at the end of writing something, I've usually given it enough of my time/brainspace that it's difficult to have to sum it all up in a catchy, pithy way. but it gets clearer each year that for so many people the hed/dek are the product (it sucks!) 620618
Reposted by Richard SambrookScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone. 613498916
Reposted by Richard SambrookLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Rooney: ‘I thought it was crap’ Legend 1636843
Reposted by Richard SambrookWeird Al Swearengen @peterlynn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now. 522444825
Reposted by Richard SambrookThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/07/2026Dermot Murnaghan dealt in affability, reliability and authority – not egotheguardian.comDermot Murnaghan dealt in affability, reliability and authority – not egoThe TV presenter – who has died, aged 68 – worked for the BBC, ITN and Channel 4 and announced the death of Diana, Princess of Wales 16013
Reposted by Richard Sambrooksianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Described as a “rollicking read” and “your reporting on this is brilliant, it has to be said” 017950
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026I don’t understand why celebrities relentlessly flaunting their privilege on social media is so popular 🤷🏻♂️ 130
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026youtu.be/o3VPF0ePZe4?...youtu.beAI was told to work an office job. It resorted to blackmail.YouTube video by The Bureau Investigates 000
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026We’ve truly fallen down the rabbit hole www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...niemanlab.orgNow we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real newsDid 47 Alabama newspapers die on a single day and no one noticed? (Hint: No, they didn't.) 042
Reposted by Richard SambrookLea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 28/06/2026-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information." 231115584089
Reposted by Richard SambrookRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern. 802509604
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026Jo Nesbø and I share the same musical taste. Just saying. #desertislanddiscs 000
Reposted by Richard SambrookGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such. 21169672242
Reposted by Richard SambrookAlan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Disinformation is often a preparatory act for corruption. Fraud Sexual assault Human trafficking Autocracy Abusive relationships Cults Genocide Peddling addictive substances youtube.com/shorts/DXixP...youtube.comDisinformation is a preparatory act for corruptionYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit 0169