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Tech and policy for better democracy. Founder and Exec Director @whotargetsme and Partner @jointogetherhq. Drummer for Fridge. Londoner, transplanted to Cork.

 Cork, sometimes London
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Probably nobody in the world has done more damage to the reputation of the pro-free speech/anti-censorship movement (which I support) than Elon Musk, someone who has used these values as cover for spewing a torrent of absurd, self-serving lies and propaganda.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk5 Nov 2024
The counter to misinformation is not censorship, but better information
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We just reorganized our warehouse, and found about a dozen of these long out-of-print original master Fridge ‘Happiness’ colored vinyl 2xLP. These haven’t been available for nearly 20 years. They’re up in our @Bandcamp shop now: temporaryresidence.bandcamp.…
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Install the Who Targets Me browser extension to track your political ads in the final week of the US election campaign. Identifies ads from over 30k US political Meta, YouTube, Instagram and X advertisers. whotargets.me/install
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If I were @tiktok_us right now, I would disable the features that allow “gifts” (basically cash tips) on their livestreams. I’m watching people in FL putting themselves in serious danger on live, very much incentivized by financial gifts from strangers. Someone could die.
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The new issue of our newsletter contains this and much more on the US presidential advertising race. fulldisclosure.whotargets.me…

Less than 30 days to go...

🇺🇸 CNN: MUSIC STARTS, HUGE TEXT APPARENTLY MADE OF MARBLE SWEEPS IN. "AMERICA DECIDES". 🇺🇸

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Rockからの影響も感じられたりと それにしても同世代以上のコドオジには理解不能なんだろうね凝り固まった小ちゃい視野だから、他者の心にも一切関心共感も持たず出来ずだからマスベ自慢Postばっかで勿論、多様性なんか到底無理なんだろうね実感しyoutu.be/u-PqV-OJous?si=B2Xc…
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Semaphore Fridge Output 1998 2LP 後”Four Tet“で活動のKieran Hebden在籍Band 元々”Underdog“事後”Playgroup“のTrevor Jacksonの Abstract Hiphop ReleaseのLabel色にTortoise感のPost RockにElectricsとの融合した音響的Soundで◎ 1970年代前後JazzとRock融合の様なGerman
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Bridget Jones was sexually harassed at both of her workplaces in the movie
Boris Johnson
@BorisJohnson21 Sep 2024
WFH may be OK for the older generation, but for the Bridget Joneses of today it's a sham and a snare - and they'll never meet their Mr Darcy dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…

BORIS JOHNSON: WFH means today's Bridget Joneses will never meet Darcy

If you are a professional woman like Bridget - who, in the stories, is a TV news producer - you have to think about the exorbitant costs of childcare, which have been steadily increasing.

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🗞️ New piece in @techreview by @KeeganMcB, @Sacha_Altay and me: We argue that AI’s current impact on elections is being overblown, and it's distracting us from deeper and long-lasting threats to democracy. Long version: technologyreview.com/2024/09… Short summary ⬇️

AI’s impact on elections is being overblown

And the focus on AI is distracting us from some deeper and longer-lasting threats to democracy.

technologyreview.com
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Die größte Angst der Menschen ist weder Agrardiesel, noch Heizungsgesetz noch Migration, sondern dass sie in den nächsten 20 Jahren nicht mehr so werden leben können wie in den letzten 40. Und diese Angst ist völlig berechtigt. Daraus ein positives Projekt zu machen, darum geht’s
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Such a crazy month in US presidential ad campaign spending for Biden/Harris. $0 spent on July 14th (the day after Trump was shot). $3.5m spent on July 22nd (after Harris took over the campaign), now "settling down" to a mere $800k a day over the last week.
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Our analysis features in this long read about how Labour won the UK digital election campaign. thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

The army of digital sleeper agents who propelled Labour to power

The party spent £6m in online campaigns but really owes victory to supporters chipping in on Facebook and chatting on Instagram

thetimes.com
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If the „fake news“ discourse has achieved anything, it is this 👇🏼 People are now more fearful, insecure, even cynical about their online news diet. Despite overwhelmingly consuming reliable sources. If anything, that makes us less resilient against the spread misinformation 🤷‍♂️
Reuters Institute
@risj_oxford30 Jul 2024
🔍 Concern about what is real and what is fake on the internet when it comes to online news has risen by 3 percentage points in the last year with around six in ten (59%) saying they are concerned. Read more on #DNR24: reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
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I know Just Stop Oil aren't everyone's cup of tea these days, but should we be worried that people are being jailed for five and four years because of an entirely non-violent protest? I think we probably should. theguardian.com/environment/…

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

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The EU Commission is investigating Meta for allowing a disinformation ad campaign in Germany and France that could "pose a risk to civic discourse". We researched people's exposure to the campaign and what that means for regulating platforms. whotargets.me/en/disinformat…
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We just sent out our post-election round up newsletter, where we look back at all two billion ads bought by parties and candidates*. fulldisclosure.whotargets.me…

Two billion ads.

What we saw in GE2024.

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4. Last remaining brand advertisers will abandon X if they believe they are non compliant with DSA 5. Fundamentally this is also about US projection of its values about absolutism of freedom of speech, when Europe & most of West see the need to balance that right with others
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This is a bad take on many levels: 1. You gotta comply with EU rules to operate in the EU 2. If a regulator suggests a path to compliance behind closed doors & you blow it up publicly, then you're going to war 3. The EU won't back down so that's going to be a huge fine or a ban
Elon Musk
@elonmusk12 Jul 2024
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.
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Now we very slowly and cautiously take Berlin
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We'll be on the BBC Media show on Radio 4 today, talking about the digital aspects of the campaign. Live from 4-5pm.
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