Olga Belogolova 🌻
@olgs7.bsky.social
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Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
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Olga Belogolova 🌻
@olgs7.bsky.social
· Nov 16
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I don't believe or suggest Section 230 has only resulted in harms. I've been defensive of 230, personally, until pretty recently. There would be likely downsides to a rollback, depending on the reform; but it's hard to dispute there are downsides to the current paradigm. It's time to revisit it.
To suggest that Section 230 has only resulted in harms is activism not journalism.
This purposefully ignores the *many* benefits that stem not just from the law but from the modern Internet it created.
You can't tell an honest story if you're just blatantly leaving that side out.
This purposefully ignores the *many* benefits that stem not just from the law but from the modern Internet it created.
You can't tell an honest story if you're just blatantly leaving that side out.
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Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
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President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money
The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.
nyti.ms
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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net
· 20d
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
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LLMs are just plagiarism machines blah blah blah.
Reality: They are on track to outperform the best human forecasters by *next year*. x.com/Research_FRI...
Reality: They are on track to outperform the best human forecasters by *next year*. x.com/Research_FRI...
Forecasting Research Institute on X: "Is AI on track to match top human forecasters at predicting the future? Today, FRI is releasing an update to ForecastBench—our benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events. A trend extrapolation of our results suggests LLMs will reach https://t.co/vqWFGYCgVN" / X
Is AI on track to match top human forecasters at predicting the future? Today, FRI is releasing an update to ForecastBench—our benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events. A trend extrapolation of our results suggests LLMs will reach https://t.co/vqWFGYCgVN
x.com
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Lisa Tozzi
@lisatozzi.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia
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The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.
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Noah Shachtman
@noahshachtman.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
· Sep 29
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Catherine Rampell
@crampell.bsky.social
· Sep 25
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence
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Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
· Sep 23
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
What to know after Trump classifies antifa as a domestic terror organization
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
www.wmur.com
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
· Sep 21
It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
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Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...