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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22h

Sometimes misinformation is rather blunt and unsophisticated but still a genuine hoax.

100+ fake accounts pretending to be real news found on TikTok. Piece by @mantzarlis.com

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101 TikTok accounts masquerading as real news spread misinformation to millions

Shallow impersonations of Telemundo, CNN, Fox News and other media got more than 200 million views posting fake ICE arrests and bombastic AI slop about geopolitics

indicator.media

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 22h

Jeg ville *gætte* på at de gør som FB

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 22h

Hvis det er Facebook/Meta: At de beholder (og sælger) data, men at de er utilgængelige for kontohaveren.
Hvis det er Mastodon: At de sletter det fra databasen

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Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social · 23h

The newest get rich quick scheme: be president. Excellent investigation by FT into Trump family’ sudden and startling crypto wealth.

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

www.ft.com

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 23h

Mainstreamingen af det ekstreme højre fortsætter

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 23h

🤷‍♂️

Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 1d

Og ellers kommer Rabarbarbarberabarbarerne og Rabarberbarberabarbarbarberen efter jer!

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Susanne Sjöstedt @solsjo.bsky.social · 1d

Flera medier: ”Även Hatts företrädare som Centerledare, Annie Lööf, har vittnat om hat och hot.
EN NAZIST VILLE MÖRDA HENNE I ALMEDALEN FÖR BARA ETT PAR ÅR SEDAN!
Har vi glömt det?

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 2d

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 2d

Pointen er vel helt enkelt at det er developere (eller om man vil: spekulanter) der bestemmer hvordan vores byer skal se ud

jyllands-posten.dk/bolig/ECE186...

I jyske byer vil man have højhuse. Og det er, uanset om »stakkels stadsarkitekter« advarer mod det

I Randers har man netop godkendt bygningen af et højhus, der er dobbelt så højt, som kommuneplanen foreskriver, at bygninger må være. Hvorfor skyder højhuse op alle vegne, selv om arkitekter og borger...

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 2d

Samerne vil have synspunkter på det. De er jo ikke rigtige svenskere (på linje med jøder) ifølge SD

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 2d

Kræft, hjerte/karsygdomme og sygdomme i åndedrætsorganerne er det der tager livet af os (Statistikbanken DODB1)

Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 2d

Åkesson er fra Skåne

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 3d

Hvis jeg nu var dansk-araber, så ville jeg måske have et par kommentarer

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 3d

Tyskeren: Bitte halten Sie meinen Bier

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 3d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

the percentage of current U.S. gov policy that can be explained by the fact that trump has appointed a bunch of 12 year olds who are addicted to social media is frankly terrifying

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 3d

Being reliant on X for formal public interest communication is not viable.

Danish police (finally) leaves X and creates their own channel for formal communication and announcements.

Communication sovereignty.

politi.dk/rigspolitiet...

Politiet får ny kommunikationskanal i 2026 | Nyheder | Rigspolitiet

Når politiet i fremtiden skal kommunikere korte beskeder af operativ karakter til offentligheden, vil det foregå via en ny kanal på politiets hjemmeside. Det sker for at sikre ejerskab over og fri adg...

politi.dk

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 3d

“Forhandle” er ikke lige det ord jeg ville sætte i overskriften. Men 🚼 ødelægger sproget

fof.se/artikel/trum...

”Trump vill förhandla sig till lydnad från universiteten” | Forskning & Framsteg

I början av oktober i år skickade Trump-administrationen ett slags kontrakt till nio amerikanska universitet. Om lärosätena går med på en rad åtgärder och principer …

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

When authoritarians tell you they like authoritarianism, over and over and over and over and over again, believe them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 3d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 3d

Increasingly, politics in West Europe is a mirror of East Europe, with a large radical right party against a rag-tag of centrist/liberal, centre-left, green and radical left parties and a rapidly declining centre right. The challenge is to coordinate the progressive opposition to the radical right.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 3d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 3d

Der er generelt en fascinerende forskel på nyheds- og debatsektionen på den ene side og erhvervssektionen hos Berlingske på den anden.

Nok fordi der er virkelige penge involveret i erhvervsstoffet. (Og den der laver Berlingskes overskrifter er virkelig pro-Trump)

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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 3d

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

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Jacob Christensen @jacobchr.bsky.social · 3d

Tjah, bum. NOVOs vækst virkede ustoppelig for et år siden

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