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Charlie Beckett
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LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 1d
Great article on reading, thanks. I don't know how to relate it to social media use but there seems to some relationship there.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 2d
This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d
Kemi, this is just a population density map

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d
What is 'brilliant' about this US administration is that they do the interviews and repeat their nonsense lines because they know that facts don't matter. This really screws conventional ideas of accountability journalism
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d
Who says crypto doesn't have practical uses? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard used crypto to evade sanctions, report finds
The military force moved about $1 billion using two exchanges registered in Britain, according to TRM Labs, which specializes in crypto investigations.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d
I adore how they don't explain what a 'chatelaine' is in the article. Also, they describe it as a 'mixed marriage': he was Protestant, she Catholic. Wonderful stuff.

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d
Love this circularity. @telegraph.co.uk builds up a woman's fame through obsessive (hostile) reporting and then says the end of the world is nigh because people buy her jam and make her rich. Karma. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
When Meghan can make £27m selling jam, you know society is broken
The Duchess has shown all it takes to be a successful entrepreneur today is to be famous and sell your wares to slobbering sycophants
www.telegraph.co.uk

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d
Interesting how Instagram seems to be suppressing political comments at the moment. I've had some very mild language blocked. Just shows how the platforms can moderate speech if they wish and how ridiculously hypocritical they are.

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d
Because it works?

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 4d
As a young journalist I admired Gerry Gable's incredible anti-fascist work. His life story is amazing. Of course he wasn't perfect but we really need more people like him now as racism and racism is reborn.

www.thetimes.com/article/9fbb...
Gerry Gable obituary: activist who infiltrated neo-Nazi groups
Anti-fascist campaigner who led an operation to undermine far-right organisations and helped to prevent racist attacks throughout the country dies aged 88
www.thetimes.com

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 6d
Tick another box on the fascism ingredient list
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life"

Reposted by Charlie Beckett, Steven S. Taylor, Andrew Kydd

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life"

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 7d
Exactly. Not just the cult of personality but also the endless battles between the barons. Peasants don't do well out of it all...

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 7d
A six year contract at Chelsea? Rosenoir has a brlliant agent for someone who's been sacked by Hull. Bravo! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Liam Rosenior confirmed as Chelsea head coach on contract to 2032
Liam Rosenior has been confirmed as Chelsea’s head coach on a contract to 2032, describing the opportunity as one he could not turn down
www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
Seeing as the vikings got to America first shouldn't the Danes be invading the US?

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
That's a cool one - do you have a reference please?

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
It's got nothing to do with freedom of expression, it's deliberate enabling of abuse, offence and assault for profit. We have laws about that stuff. So go on, Ofcom, do something

Reposted by Diane Coyle

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
And over to you @ofcom.bsky.social We have the regulatory tools. You would not tolerate this with any other medium, why not act now? Shut it down. Imagine if any other company did this, their owner would be in court/jail
jamesrball.com James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d
Grok is producing sexualised content designed to harass women and girls on an industrial scale. Not to mention out and out CSAM. The story is only just starting to break in the mainstream.

It will go well beyond just X and Musk. The other companies *absolutely* should get ahead of it.

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
An enjoyable historic romp across historic civilisational collapses with a knowing nod towards current events from Adrian...

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d
"Wildly fantastical as this scenario may seem"
greyskiesthinking.bsky.social Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 9d
The worst civil conflict in western Europe since WW2, which ran for thirty years *in the actual UK*, reduced to a 'something like' analogy for race war fantasies by a London academic. No words. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 9d
The Last Shipment – From Sutton Hoo to Caracas – on great power exhaustion and the places no one is watching open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The Last Shipment
From Sutton Hoo to Caracas – on great power exhaustion and the places no one is watching
open.substack.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d
Grok is producing sexualised content designed to harass women and girls on an industrial scale. Not to mention out and out CSAM. The story is only just starting to break in the mainstream.

It will go well beyond just X and Musk. The other companies *absolutely* should get ahead of it.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Charlie Beckett, Stuart White

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 9d
The worst civil conflict in western Europe since WW2, which ran for thirty years *in the actual UK*, reduced to a 'something like' analogy for race war fantasies by a London academic. No words. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 9d
If true ( and we don't have details on timing yet?) this was a momentous editorial call. Imagine an editor 'brave' enough to risk putting American forces at risk. I can't think of examples from the past where this has happened (not just US) can you?
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 10d
Yes I like European muddling too. But we are in danger of being utterly marginalised by the new real world.

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 10d
Because oil. I'm not justifying Trump's actions, I'm questioning whether opposing it on legal grounds fails to offer a viable alternative. On his terms - and many other's - it's worked.

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 10d
Good point but she's hardly benefitting from no one challenging the Taliban? Afghanistan women did benefit from western intervention until the west lost.