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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃

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International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof University of Notre Dame; Fellow-Bard College; Associate-Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Oct 21

Soooo excited that these have arrived! Get your copy now for the best insights on industry's role in propaganda co-edited with me & Vian Bakir. With unmissable contributions from authors such as
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Alexandra S Chalupa, Nick Cull Jonathan Ong, Marie Santini, Débora Salles,

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 2h

The economic fallout when this collapses will be world historic.

Financial Times @ft.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2h

This TikTok takeover just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

Medical advice from LLMs can be more persuasive than real doctors, even when it's wrong https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/why-empathetic-ai-can-be-too-persuasive-for-canadians-to-resist/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Vered Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it's inaccurate.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2h

If they do understand that what they are communicating is misleading and partial as you claim, I'd say that is worse. I was referring to the public audience who they are communicating this to not understanding the minutiae of the conspiracy theories, hence the need for a more complete explanation.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 3h

"A dominant position in A.I. might be, without exaggeration, the biggest prize in the history of capitalism. This has attracted a great deal of competition... The world of A.I. may be growing too big to monitor. No one can afford to slow down."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 3h

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 8h

People keep posting this as if he make a mistake due to dementia or is tricking people with dates. You need to understand the debunked deep state conspiracy theory this relates to about the FBI being politicized and involved in Jan 6, and therefore needing to be purged and reformed.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 6h

No, everyone doesn't follow the minutiae of these conspiracy theories and the useful role they play maintaining power. And it doesn't help people to understand what he is trying to do to have a misleading interpretation of Trump's post circulating widely. It underplays the danger.

Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 7h

People understand it. People also understand that at this point he was president for 4 years so calling it "Biden FBI" is ridiculously idiotic, and hitting back with dementia claims is an effective response.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 7h

If you find my posts interesting and helpful, do check out the fun online course I created on Udemy - hone your bullshit detector today! bsky.app/profile/emma...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 7h

I also have a Patreon where you can follow my updates and get access to exclusive content - in case you haven't seen my resources on #patreon yet - here is Dr. Emma L. Briant's #Propaganda Bibliography for your reading pleasure... www.patreon.com/posts/dr-emm...

Dr. Emma L Briant's Propaganda Bibliography | Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 7h

Dr. Emma L Briant's Propaganda Bibliography | Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion

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Political Punk @actingliketommy.bsky.social · 18d

This is how far down the pipeline Trump has taken us... to where Charlie Kirk is viewed as a moderate and Fuentes gets normalized. Young men in America are in danger.

WIRED @wired.com · 19d

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power. www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

www.wired.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 7h

If you find my posts interesting and helpful, do check out the fun online course I created on Udemy - hone your bullshit detector today! bsky.app/profile/emma...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 8h

Factory farms for salmon are filthy environments that require a constant flow of clean water and constant treatment with toxic chemicals. These places are so bad that some 30 per cent of all farmed salmon simply die from their conditions, they don’t become food for customers.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 7h

Boop time!

Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 7h

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13h

"In reality, ‘hard right’ is less an evolution than a euphemism, effectively sanitising and normalising what it purports to describe."

Why we need to halt ‘hard right’ in its tracks

Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues Tim Bale, it’s a misdescr...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 5d

If you find my articles interesting, do check out the fun online course I created on Udemy and hone your bullshit detector today! bsky.app/profile/emma...

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Martha Acuna @marthaacuna.bsky.social · 7h

Your dose to cuteness 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Good morning friends!!

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 8h

See www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories

The report Thursday from the Justice Department inspector general’s office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the...

www.pbs.org

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