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Richard Sambrook

@sambrook.eurosky.social
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Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
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Catching a shapeshifter: one lie, eight videos, 15 languages
Inside a new wave of evolving, AI-powered disinformation campaigns. This week, Athena speaks to Tom Garnett, whose organisation just released a report into election interference in the Baltics
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
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Beware of anti-woke campaigners’ attack playbook
Typical moves include cherry-picking evidence, selectively targeting minorities and coordinating harassment, say Sander van der Linden and Alan Jagolinzer
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
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🚨The accountancy giant Deloitte fabricated corporate documents to help Roman Abramovich conceal at least $10bn in assets and dodge large amounts of tax. We found more than 1,000 corporate records… | ...
🚨The accountancy giant Deloitte fabricated corporate documents to help Roman Abramovich conceal at least $10bn in assets and dodge large amounts of tax. We found more than 1,000 corporate records tha...
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Simon Lock @simonlock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My latest on Roman Abramovich, and how his hidden web of offshore companies dodged tax and concealed assets - all with the help of the Big Four's Deloitte: Findings include: Backdated trust agreements to make $2bn of interest-earning cash appear to belong to another (BVI) company, escaping tax.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Congratulations to the team @tbij.bsky.social Accountability matters.
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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 11/10/2026
Hearing the rest is history guys shill unquestioningly for anthropic really shows the limits of host-read ads
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
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Revealing the blind spots that weaken our disinformation defences
Sharper 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
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
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Investigating Who’s Behind Fake News
In 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.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One 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?”
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
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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...
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In defence of human journalism
My industry at a time of AI.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
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Exclusive: Ex-NATO chief calls on UK to urgently test its disinformation defences
Former NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, talks to Athena about information warfare, Britain’s vulnerabilities, and why we must prepare before disaster strikes
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
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The 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.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Malign disinfo reaches into ai summaries … www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
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Attackers Manipulate AI in Mass Disinformation, Phishing Campaign
Hackers are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
The enemy within bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels 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.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
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Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?
No.
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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good news from McCains
AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Palantir 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...
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Very true. Although, like ironing, I find some satisfaction in washing up…!
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Everyone wants to be a guru and thought leader. No-one wants to do the washing up.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
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Why The Data Centre Bubble Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen | Madras Courier
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Audition polaroids taken by Hollywood Casting Director Mali Finn, in the 1980's
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
Exactly this spectator.com/article/the-...
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The day the Today programme lost the plot
To be clear, this is absolutely no criticism of Amol Rajan himself. He’s a fine broadcaster, a very nice bloke.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh 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...
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Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July
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Alan 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?...
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Journalism & Democratic Backsliding: thoughts on responsible journalism
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
Roger Moore is an entirely different kind of Bond from the others. Knowing, suave rather than ruthless. For some it’s his strength. For me it makes those films unwatchable.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
Lucky Canadians Ethan - good luck!
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.
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Mark Krajnak @jerseystylephoto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hearing the great Jay Maisel passed away last evening. He was 95. RIP to one of the best. #Photography
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
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What The Next Journalism Should Be
A conversation with Tom Rosenstiel
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Cheer yourselves up: ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
Of course - totally agree. But to headline them uncritically from a Sunday newspaper article two days before they are announced and not to offer similar treatment to other parties with more MPs is not right. And their polling is falling.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
This was a pretty egregious error of editorial judgement on several counts. But it’s not just a one off error by one editor or outlet given the story has run across TV, radio and online…BBC News is nothing if it does not employ serious and considered editorial judgement…
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The 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
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’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?
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Tom Rosenstiel always worth reading on the state of journalism www.latimes.com/.../202.../b...
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
FT Weekend - always essential reading imo
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Very taken with this from the @financialtimes.com today - Henry Farrell weekend essay on Philip k Dick and relevance to our dystopian times.
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John Battelle @battellemedia.com · 07/07/2026
Anyone else increasingly concerned about our drift into immateriality? battellemedia.com/archives/202...
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John 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…
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
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John 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…
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 24/07/2026
It'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...
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‘Oh, how we sweltered and argued’ – the long, hot summer of ‘26
Some discourse is too hot to handle
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
Brilliant pic from @nytimes.com - sums up the climate crisis
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Despite 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...
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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite 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…
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'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!)
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Rooney: ‘I thought it was crap’ Legend
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