Will X truly give needed researcher data access? Good piece focusing on the specifics of data scope, metadata, and data operations. “Six months from now, that should be the standard against which compliance is established” @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/what-xs-corr...

What X's Corrected Action Under the DSA Fixes on Data Access, and What's Left Open

Luka Bekavac and Alice Palmieri examine whether X's DSA corrective measures will give researchers the data needed to audit systemic risks.

techpolicy.press

We identified a network of 19 inauthentic #Telegram channels posing as independent news outlets. No newsroom. No editorial process. Just automated posting, purchased subscribers, and amplification of Kremlin-aligned disinformation. What does this say about the EU's regulation of Telegram? 👇

«Before around 70,000 people crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, videos promising an easier route to Europe reportedly spread on TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms.» #Ceuta #Spain #EU #misinfo #socialMedia #migration

How misleading information spread during the Ceuta crisis

Here's what we know so far about claims that circulated around the Ceuta crisis. #TheCube

euronews.com

NO RAGRETS, VARMONT!

Kay Cook (and cats)@iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · 4w ago

#AI Update: Great news, guys! Political attack #adslop is really starting to look polished & campaign-ready 👌 Plus the #AIAds are testing well with Russian bots, vegetative coma patients and, this is weird, it says here “your aunt,” whatever you make of that 🤔 youtube.com/shorts/3_O3t... #fuckAI

No worries, we can just aircon all the potato fields.

Heatwaves cause potato losses for Cornwall growers

Potatoes shut down when temperatures reach more than 23C (73F) preventing tubers from growing.

bbc.co.uk

The way EUnats have been losing their shit, you'd thing Ceuta was in the Schengen zone.

«CIG used publicly available adtech data, which is information from cookies that users agree to sell to third party vendors when they visit a website or use a mobile application […] includes movement data, language settings, and other details that users consent to selling to a third party vendor.»

Philippe Dam@philippedam.bsky.social · last mo.

#UnitedArabEmirates' support to #Sudan's abusive #RSF extends to eastern #Libya - @lighthousereports.com exposes today. #UAE helped set up camps near Benghazi where UAE-backed Colombian mercenaries train RSF fighters. Full story👇 www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

Have you ever received a Terms of Service or Privacy Policy update from a business you used that was an *improvement* on the previous version?

«The apparent aim of Alternita is to allow AfD headquarters to control messaging in a subtle way without hindering its decentralised army of followers and activists generating posts that attract attention […]» #Germany #elections #genAI #politics #propaganda #rageBait

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 4w ago

AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD

"TP, or not TP? That is, for my bunghole."

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

the last line of patrick stewart's article

«For example, “sexual activity between a human and any animal that exists in the real world” is not permitted. Does this mean sex between humans and Bigfoot is allowed? What about depictions of sex with extinct animals, like passenger pigeons or dodos?» Bigfoot been real quiet since this dropped. 🤣🤔

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · last yr.

I tried to put into (many) words something I've tried to put a finger on for years: everything is weirdly sexual now because nothing is allowed to be overtly, actually sexual anymore www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...

Nick Adams' "foundation" was also a client of a major Facebook ad slopaganda engagement bait network. See the 2023 piece about "Hired guns" for "MAGA mills, by @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social at [ www.fwiw.news/p/the-facebo... ].

The Facebook MAGA mills are open for business

Massive right-wing Facebook networks are growing rapidly ahead of 2024

fwiw.news

kalibomeli.bsky.social@kalibomeli.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

I'm not saying that anyone ever sat down and said, "Parents with sick children will pay whatever we charge for a thermometer at 2AM." They didn't have to: this is the kind of thing an automated system can do without any human intervention: www.ftc.gov/system/files... 15/

Imagine Wikipedia adding a “generate a plausible-looking citation for any claim you type’” button. Now imagine it comes with a photo to match.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

A quick word on science literacy. If you are able to grasp that reducing man-made air pollution can impact global climates, then you MUST be able to grasp that man-made greenhouse emissions can do the same. You cannot "trust the science" on one and not the other 21/

No, European heatwaves are not CAUSED by a fall in air pollution. The word CAUSED is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here! Let's look at what the study being 'reported' on was actually researching and what it found🤓 1/22 🧵

To adapt a common saying at The Other Place, "It's amazing how much rightist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible." #Europe #factCheck #climateChange #science #heatwave

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2w ago

NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution ✍️ written by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 with comments from Bjorn Samset, @erichfischer.bsky.social and Pedro Roldan-Gomez Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ukIO2fI

"feel the power and the energy"? What is this BS? We wouldn't let this absurdly low standard of evidence pass for any other claim of fact. Are there actual human bodies buried there, or nah?

First Nations leaders discuss AFN vote on Indian Residential School denialism – July 15, 2026

YouTube video by cpac

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Or societal lead poisoning.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2w ago

every day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

Freeze peach warrior Andrew Doyle has written a breathless screed against even the possibility that the government might try media literacy education via prebunking, demonstrating his own illiteracy. archive.ph/GJu1F

Well, Congress was already invaded by Vandals on 2021/JAN/06, so why not let the Goths have a go at it too? 💁

You know, the literal English translation of "Prima Donna" is actually "First Lady". #facts

#enshittification

Inside the billion-dollar business of getting a visa | The Take

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

youtu.be

"Rector"?! Dang near killed 'er!

Take your "Imagine if Obama did this" shot. 🥃

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not much left to monetise. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/16/b...

She means this as advice

Dang they really got a category for everything

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...