this new Jacobin article links to my blog last month on the AI rebellion which you can read here: www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1

Nick Couldry@couldrynick.bsky.social · last wk.

a new piece in Jacobin by me and @velislavahill.bsky.social on how resistance to AI is misrepresented in mainstream media: jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-t... @lsemedia.bsky.social

a new piece in Jacobin by me and @velislavahill.bsky.social on how resistance to AI is misrepresented in mainstream media: jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-t... @lsemedia.bsky.social

Critics of AI Aren’t Anti-Tech Extremists

Recent US intelligence documents hype up the threat of “anti-tech violent extremist activity” against data centers. Casting protests as ideologically extreme is a shortcut to silencing critics of AI a...

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"Digital transformation" was the political buzzword through which strategic public functions were transferred to closed, private technological infrastructures in one or two jurisdictions. A de facto privatisation and abdication of sovereignty. With AI, it will get worse than that.

My latest critical take on the impending social crisis of AI: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... @lsemedia.bsky.social

AI’s impending social crisis - Media@LSE

LSE's Professor Nick Couldry reflects on the contribution of AI to society, and how far we are prepared to consider intelligence itself as a utility.

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Powerful. Via AP: "Leo raised the trans-Atlantic slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling..." A phenomenon @karenhao.bsky.social, @couldrynick.bsky.social, Ulises Mejias, & others (including myself) have documented.

Prof. Anthea Butler@antheabutler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Tengo ganas de regresarme a Barcelona el viernes para este impresionante congreso

Canòdrom - Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica@canodrombcn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global. 🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més. ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD... Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.

Am speaking at LSE Festival of Ideas on rebuilding social media and the implications of social media's ills for building a better politics on the climate emergency and everything else. Two events on Saturday June 20, tickets on sale NOW! www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f... www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f...

Saving our digital world | Adele Zeynep Walton

5pm Sat 20 Jun | Adele Zeynep Walton, Professor Nick Couldry | LSE Festival: How to save the planet I Free public event I Ticket required

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This is very important and much needed research

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay

Very much looking forward to this event in Barcelona !

Canòdrom - Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica@canodrombcn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global. 🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més. ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD... Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.

Well said @histoftech.bsky.social

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

AI and the amplification of academic content assetization

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…

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brilliant blog overnight by @parismarx.com on Sam Altman's hubristic thinking about intelligence as private utility: disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb...

INCA an EU-based project has just launched a terrific documentary on data (I'm pleased to be part of it - thanks to Niccolo Cuppini). The film is called “Data Revolution!” Please circulate to students, friends . . Trailer: lnkd.in/e2ewHcnP Full video: lnkd.in/ePzbnVEr Project page: lnkd.in/eZkpUWnh

Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐 Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory. 🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm 📍 LSE + Online 🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1 #LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social

Really important from @robinberjon !! Citizens are already ahead of most of their politicians. In today's hyperconnected world, a transactional US government is anything but a friend!

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 5mo ago

Ahead of their leaders: "Eighty-six percent of people think a sudden U.S. move to restrict Europe’s access to digital services is "plausible" and "should not be ruled out," and 59 percent called it “already a real and concrete risk”." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

I strongly agree. We cannot afford to abandon social media to the right, even as we need to find ways to rebuild social media on a better basis. @debbieball.bsky.social @adelewalton.bsky.social

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It really pains me that, after more than a decade of Bannon and Farage et al, there's not a more strategic approach to media on the left. Independent media is fantastic but not enough, and the sad truth now is that there's a straight line from posting to power. It's ridiculous but true.

I am excited too. A movement needs to be built around these issues. Maybe this is one place it starts?

Debbie Ball@debbieball.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our Solidarity Vs Big Tech panel at @uniwestminster.bsky.social Marylebone Tues 17th March is almost sold out! Cannot wait for this timely, urgent discussion with speakers @couldrynick.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and @adelewalton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...

Me complace anunciar una renovación de mi página web personal www.nickcouldry.org En un solo lugar mis blogs recientes medios publicaciones y charlas, por ej. www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1 Me alegra especialmente que mis páginas web estén tanto en inglés como en español. Gracias a Aikaterini Mniestri

Pleased to announce a revamp of my personal website: www.nickcouldry.org . There in one place are my recent blogs, media, publications, and talks, eg www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1 Particularly pleased my webpages are in both English and Spanish. Thanks to Aikaterini Mniestri for invaluable support

Exactly, because GenAI Chatbots are designed to further a similar business model to the commercial social media whose failure we already understand all too well

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The thing about LLMs is they are uniquely designed to expedite achievement of the worst possible outcomes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well this seems fine

Graham Smith@cyberleagle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/25c4107...

It was great to speak to @aljazeera.com about #Zuckerberg testifying in front of a jury last week, in a watershed moment for holding big tech to account. www.youtube.com/watch?si=HyU...

Social media giants must be held accountable for youth mental health harms, analyst warns

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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this was great fun to record. Thanks the DDTU project and team for having us!

Diversifying and Decolonising the University@ddtupodcast.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In the new episode of the podcast, we talk to @ulises-mejias.bsky.social & @couldrynick.bsky.social about their book Data Grab! They talk the 'new colonialism of big tech' and much else. Listen wherever you get your shows, or here: zencastr.com/z/At7zGFhV Please subscribe, share, and get in touch!

This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Social media age bans are a only half-measure. Only by banning toxic business models that exploit social attention can we address the problems with social media – @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Social media age bans will fail because they are not radical enough - LSE European Politics

Social media age bans are half-measures. To fix social media, we must ban the exploitative business models that profit from our attention.

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If you are interested in my take on the social media age ban debate, here it is, thanks to @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

LSE European Politics@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Social media age bans will fail because they are not radical enough. Only by banning toxic business models that exploit social attention can we address the problems with social media. ✍ @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Thanks to @npr.org for profiling our @brookings.edu study on #AIED: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n.... Find the report here:https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-direction-for-students-in-an-ai-world-prosper-prepare-protect/

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

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Hopefully of interest! @aurelmondon.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @alessandronai.bsky.social @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @annagbusse.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social @frankstengel.com @jfarkas.bsky.social @drspguerra.bsky.social @gavant.bsky.social @illsp.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

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DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting

The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content — including in a recent recruitment post.

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this recent interview by my co-author Ulises Mejias gives an up-to-date view of our approach to #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI

ASA SKAT@asaskat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New Books Q&A with Ulises A. Mejias, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Interviewed by Jeba Humayra Prithwi asaskat.com/2025/12/09/q... @ulises-mejias.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social