FT Exclusive: Beijing is considering restrictions to prevent China’s advanced technologies and star start-ups from being acquired by the west, highlighting the country’s intensifying rivalry with the US in cutting-edge AI. ft.trib.al/McYM93P
Marietje Schaake
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Deze staat sinds nu op mijn #storytel boekenplank. Heeft iemand deze al gelezen en/of geluisterd? En zo ja wat vond je er van?
Marietje Schaake@marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 4mo agoGedrukt en ingesproken, vanaf 21 April in de boekhandel! #demachtscode kiosk.decorrespondent.nl/products/de-... ↘️
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
reuters.com
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
It’s probably better for everyone that I refrain from commenting on soccer. But it seems to me that if there is not a common red line drawn against this, it’s really game over in terms of fair play, trust, enjoyment etc. yes Trump and FIFA are corrupt but come on Team USA don’t spoil it for everyone
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Nu 20% zomer korting op De Machtscode met #zomerlezen ↘️😎☀️💃🏼↘️☀️💃🏼😎↘️
De Correspondent@decorrespondent.nl · last mo.Op zoek naar een goed boek voor je vakantie? Deze zomer geven we 20% korting op al onze e-books en audioboeken! ⛱️ Kies bijvoorbeeld voor 'Dit is fascisme' van @rosansmits.bsky.social of 'De machtscode' van @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. Gebruik de code 'zomerlezen' in onze kiosk: corr.es/d23ba4
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De Correspondent@decorrespondent.nl · last mo.Op zoek naar een goed boek voor je vakantie? Deze zomer geven we 20% korting op al onze e-books en audioboeken! ⛱️ Kies bijvoorbeeld voor 'Dit is fascisme' van @rosansmits.bsky.social of 'De machtscode' van @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. Gebruik de code 'zomerlezen' in onze kiosk: corr.es/d23ba4
In Trump’s ‘free speech’ America ↘️
Alex Stamos@stamos.org · last mo.Was Hines v Stamos Cheryl Hines suing John Stamos over the long-awaited Full House/Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover? Nope, it was an attempt to suppress academic research into the organized manipulation of online platforms. After three years we finally won. But at great cost.
A bit of good news when we needed it! Lots of respect for @katestarbird.bsky.social and others who wouldn’t be intimidated into silence or censorship ↘️
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · last mo.Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h3t5rqlvuaorq42yckpijirj/bafkreiggakmifunn64abigm63tqgz3acksb5neiyr736xtwd7dnfiodzra)
It sounds like the RSF is starting to mass around another key city of some 500,000 people in Sudan — called el-Obeid — and threatening to repeat the atrocities of El-Fasher there, if anyone still cares
Sudan: Fears of atrocities as RSF surrounds key city
As Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces mass around the strategic city of el-Obeid, fears are growing of atrocities similar to those seen in Darfur's el-Fasher. Could sanctions still prevent bloo...
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Beijing imposed new export controls on 10 U.S. firms — including two companies at the heart of D.C.’s efforts to diversify away from Chinese rare earth metals — in retaliation for the blacklisting of dozens of Chinese tech companies from the U.S. military.
China takes aim at U.S. rare earth companies with new export controls
Beijing slaps new restrictions on U.S. companies that are helping Washington build a domestic supply chain of critical minerals.
washingtonpost.com
Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency Brands promoting their products online are quietly deploying AI-generated influencers on social media, an investigation has found, prompting calls for greater transparency. The findings suggest companies are increasingly turning to AI-generated content that purports to show genuine customer experiences while giving no obvious indication that the people featured are not real. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
theguardian.com
US tax dollars are complicit in attacking one of the world’s oldest Christian community
Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2mo agoSettlers burn mountain in Christian village of Taybeh, West Bank Israeli settlers set fire to an entire mountain in the lands of Taybeh in Ramallah, the last Christian-majority town in the West Bank.
"WIRED documented dozens of public instances of companies, govts, NGOs & ed establishments stepping away from US tech companies in favor of open source or local alternatives. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social: “The aggressive Trump policies, attacking international law, has led to several wake-up calls.”
“The aggressive policies by the Trump administration, attacking international law, as well as the EU and democratic principles, has led to several wake-up calls,” @marietjeschaake.bsky.social We've now documented around 40 efforts to abandon or replace US technology in Europe
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
wired.com
👀 FT editorial board warns: more compelling than the values argument is MPs’ concern that the UK is getting “locked in” to small nr of mostly US suppliers that may seek to embed themselves and crank up prices even as Trump’s US has become a less reliable partner ↘️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Britain’s questionable reliance on Palantir
Government should use the best technology for any task, but be wary of ‘lock-ins’
giftarticle.ft.com
Politico: "The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation" Europe can no longer rely on the US in any regard. It has to produce its own arms. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia
The decision is part of a broader American retrenchment from the NATO alliance.
politico.com
After years of relying on U.S. technology, the European Commission has finally unveiled its tech sovereignty package. Can Brussels build real alternatives? 🎙️ @swheatonjourno.bsky.social is joined by @marietjeschaake.bsky.social and @laurenscerulus.bsky.social to discuss on #BrusselsPlaybookPod👇
Can Europe quit American Big Tech?
Podcast Episode · Brussels Playbook Podcast · 5 June · 39min
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Hacking civilian cameras is now a recurring feature of war. Branko Ruzic walks through the existing statutory landscape to understand whether the government can compel remediation of the millions of exploitable devices already deployed across U.S. cities. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Remediation Gap in Civilian Camera Security
Civilian cameras are being hijacked in active conflicts. U.S. law freezes future imports but cannot touch the millions already deployed at home.
lawfaremedia.org
De machtsstrijd om AI: @ajboekestijn.bsky.social en @robdewijk.bsky.social in gesprek met Stanford-onderzoeker @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. www.bnr.nl/podcast/boek...
De machtsstrijd om AI
Amerika en China zijn verwikkeld in een race om suprematie in AI en Europa bungelt weer eens achteraan. De gevolgen daarvan kunnen ingrijpend zijn. Te gast:...
bnr.nl
Europe’s leaders must stop self-censoring—Free speech has never mattered more. It cannot be left to those who wield it as a weapon. Europe’s real censorship problem is the self-silencing among its leaders. www.ft.com/content/c4a0... @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Europe’s leaders must stop self-censoring
White House pressure is being met with political flattery and strategic ambiguity that citizens find confusing
ft.com
The former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia is a current Democratic candidate for governor, with the former Biden official and Atlanta ex-mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms currently holding the lead in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. (cont.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...?
‘The party has sailed its ship’: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor’s seat
After being excommunicated from the GOP, Geoff Duncan is trying for a comeback on the Democratic ticket
theguardian.com
the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
open.substack.com