Charles Grès
@charlesgres.bsky.social
Architect, atheist, eclectic, popperian, life wanderer, dreamer, uncorrigible optimist... INTP
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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We should also probably avoid basing our politics on information systems that reward outrage and where the truth has zero value.
this is really good from @stephenkb.bsky.social. It's about leadership on the norms we've embraced: racism is unacceptable; the UK is a multicultural country and so much the richer for it. We need to live those values; leaders need to lead on them www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We should also probably avoid basing our politics on information systems that reward outrage and where the truth has zero value.
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Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.
September 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.
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We’ve seen this play out repeatedly across Europe. Each time, mainstream parties hoped to undercut the far right by echoing its language. Each time, the effect was to legitimise and empower the very forces they wanted to contain.
September 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We’ve seen this play out repeatedly across Europe. Each time, mainstream parties hoped to undercut the far right by echoing its language. Each time, the effect was to legitimise and empower the very forces they wanted to contain.
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The problem with figures like RFK Jr. isn’t just that they spread bad information. It’s that they sustain disordered counterpublics, spaces where falsehoods are reinforced through imitation of legitimate democratic processes.
"There is no measles outbreak big enough to prove him wrong."
What can be done with RFK Jr.'s aggressive ignorance?
There is no shortage of absurdities at the periodic debasement competitions that are Trump Cabinet meetings. At this week's version, one could find the Labor Secretary encouraging the president to go ...
www.gravityisgone.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The problem with figures like RFK Jr. isn’t just that they spread bad information. It’s that they sustain disordered counterpublics, spaces where falsehoods are reinforced through imitation of legitimate democratic processes.
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🧵 This article from Mike Benz's "Foundation for Freedom Online" is a textbook example of how “free speech absolutists” twist the words of those they criticise, not by engaging honestly, but through distortion and projection. My work gets recast as censorship when it’s actually about empowerment.
August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I’m not talking about censoring speech or deciding what people can say. My focus is on building the civic capacity for people to verify evidence, deliberate openly, and hold power accountable. That way, everyone has the tools to challenge disinformation, no gatekeepers needed.
August 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’m not talking about censoring speech or deciding what people can say. My focus is on building the civic capacity for people to verify evidence, deliberate openly, and hold power accountable. That way, everyone has the tools to challenge disinformation, no gatekeepers needed.
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Imagine, calling a country that overwhelmingly elected a Jew whose family was murdered by the Nazis "Nazis" while they're being invaded by militias like Rusich, who the Russians proudly give awards.
August 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Imagine, calling a country that overwhelmingly elected a Jew whose family was murdered by the Nazis "Nazis" while they're being invaded by militias like Rusich, who the Russians proudly give awards.
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The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.
What's wrong with Max Blumenthal?!
August 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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@safety.bsky.app
You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.
Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social
You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.
Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
@safety.bsky.app
You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.
Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social
You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.
Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social
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"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
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When Krypton sends its people, they're not sending their best...
July 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
When Krypton sends its people, they're not sending their best...
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In today’s Wumao Soup, I’ll introduce how and where the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) online propaganda and influence operations work. Due to China’s massive population and advances in AI, CCP-aligned online content has become increasingly visible.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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In today’s Wumao Soup, I’ll introduce how and where the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) online propaganda and influence operations work. Due to China’s massive population and advances in AI, CCP-aligned online content has become increasingly visible.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In today’s Wumao Soup, I’ll introduce how and where the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) online propaganda and influence operations work. Due to China’s massive population and advances in AI, CCP-aligned online content has become increasingly visible.
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All within 6 mos., Trump has destroyed: our Economy (Tariffs) w/highest prices ever, our allies in NATO, created a Gestapo of Insurrectionists he pardon to deport innocent immigrants (not gang members), caused protests in USA bigger than any POTUS, betrayed Ukraine & got us into a War w/Iran! SAD!
June 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
All within 6 mos., Trump has destroyed: our Economy (Tariffs) w/highest prices ever, our allies in NATO, created a Gestapo of Insurrectionists he pardon to deport innocent immigrants (not gang members), caused protests in USA bigger than any POTUS, betrayed Ukraine & got us into a War w/Iran! SAD!
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Almost surely none of this is real. This is multinationals using inflated transfer prices to make profits appear in low-tax Ireland. Trump's EU trade war is stupid on many levels, but the fact that it's based in part on an accounting fiction is the cherry on top
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Almost surely none of this is real. This is multinationals using inflated transfer prices to make profits appear in low-tax Ireland. Trump's EU trade war is stupid on many levels, but the fact that it's based in part on an accounting fiction is the cherry on top
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Trump's wisest appointee yet just explained YESTERDAY why an American got elected Pope for the first time TODAY, saying he agreed with the statement about our political decline and the papacy.
www.instagram.com/reel/DJW3Crd...
www.instagram.com/reel/DJW3Crd...
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump's wisest appointee yet just explained YESTERDAY why an American got elected Pope for the first time TODAY, saying he agreed with the statement about our political decline and the papacy.
www.instagram.com/reel/DJW3Crd...
www.instagram.com/reel/DJW3Crd...
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Catholics looking at the Trump-as-the-Pope AI image he posted.
May 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Catholics looking at the Trump-as-the-Pope AI image he posted.
