Joseph Beaudreau
@josephbeaudreau.bsky.social
Oregonian in Paris. PhD at Sorbonne Nouvelle - US Media, Fact Checking.
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Finally making the jump from X, so here's an #introduction: Originally from beautiful Oregon 🌲 but have been living/researching/teaching in Paris 🥖 for 10+ years. Finishing dissertation on the political economy of disinformation and fact-checking in US media ecosystem.
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Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
It’s a long shot that this bill to eliminate dual citizenship in the US will pass but it sure is a sign of the next segment of debate on who counts as a US American
www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...
www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...
www.wkbn.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s a long shot that this bill to eliminate dual citizenship in the US will pass but it sure is a sign of the next segment of debate on who counts as a US American
www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...
www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...
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If the news business wants young people to trust it, it needs to be honest about its failures, its limitations, and its power. At the very least it can help more people recognize that the news business is a business, one that is also sometimes a public service, and that often also does public harm.
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If the news business wants young people to trust it, it needs to be honest about its failures, its limitations, and its power. At the very least it can help more people recognize that the news business is a business, one that is also sometimes a public service, and that often also does public harm.
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There was a brief window when legacy media “discovered” they could acquire quick, discount talent by hiring people away from blogging. I benefitted! But if not for that… I don’t know. This business has not earned back lost trust from the 2000s, when these surveyed teens weren’t around.
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There was a brief window when legacy media “discovered” they could acquire quick, discount talent by hiring people away from blogging. I benefitted! But if not for that… I don’t know. This business has not earned back lost trust from the 2000s, when these surveyed teens weren’t around.
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I was on staff at my high school paper (technically I was the “features” editor). The 2000 election chaos, 9/11, the US lying its way into Iraq is what dominated the years of what would have been my early career, had I not come to the reasonable conclusion that the news biz then was not for me.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I was on staff at my high school paper (technically I was the “features” editor). The 2000 election chaos, 9/11, the US lying its way into Iraq is what dominated the years of what would have been my early career, had I not come to the reasonable conclusion that the news biz then was not for me.
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I’m not sure what to make of this survey, honestly? If you’re a young person in solidarity with Gaza, or against police killings, or you’re trans or queer, would you have reason to trust the news?
A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media
You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’m not sure what to make of this survey, honestly? If you’re a young person in solidarity with Gaza, or against police killings, or you’re trans or queer, would you have reason to trust the news?
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Around 10% of Meta's revenue comes from literal crime.
That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Around 10% of Meta's revenue comes from literal crime.
That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
I've interacted with plenty of EU lawmakers recently, and it's not universally true (of course) but it is striking how many seem to take the fact that some companies are bad to mean the entire internet concept was bad. It doesn't need to be! We can build a better internet!
Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.
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If approved, the Nexstar-Tenga merger would combine the nation's largest television-station conglomerate with its fourth largest.
The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets.
Our statement:
The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets.
Our statement:
Proposed Nexstar-Tegna Merger Is Blatant Violation of the Law Prohibiting One Company from Too Much Control of Local Airwaves
The $6.2 billion deal also would violate the FCC’s few remaining local-ownership limits in nearly 30 markets. In some, it would leave Nexstar in control of three of the top-four-ranked stations.
www.freepress.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If approved, the Nexstar-Tenga merger would combine the nation's largest television-station conglomerate with its fourth largest.
The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets.
Our statement:
The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets.
Our statement:
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
A truly cool thing in American civic culture, we have very cute license plates in most states. This isn’t even the cutest from Oregon.
Pacific Northwest pachyderm pals unite! The new Oregon Zoo elephant license plate is now available.
Oregon’s new elephant license plate is finally available to purchase
Pacific Northwest pachyderm pals unite! The new Oregon Zoo elephant license plate is now available.
www.oregonlive.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A truly cool thing in American civic culture, we have very cute license plates in most states. This isn’t even the cutest from Oregon.
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As I told a group at Cornell just yesterday, I think these AI Contributors are a betrayal of the promise of crowdsourced fact-checking.
If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.
If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As I told a group at Cornell just yesterday, I think these AI Contributors are a betrayal of the promise of crowdsourced fact-checking.
If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.
If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social
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When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS
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Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.
We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.
We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.
This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.
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« Il montre que si on a une base militante suffisamment forte, une candidature populaire et qu'on sait communiquer, on peut gagner » @colestangler.bsky.social Journaliste franco-américain
#CCeSoir
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November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
« Il montre que si on a une base militante suffisamment forte, une candidature populaire et qu'on sait communiquer, on peut gagner » @colestangler.bsky.social Journaliste franco-américain
#CCeSoir
➡️ bit.ly/TrumpMamdani...
🎧 en podcast
#CCeSoir
➡️ bit.ly/TrumpMamdani...
🎧 en podcast
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From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal.
prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...
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The Flaw in Trump’s MAGA Media Empire Plot - The American Prospect
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is for sale, and Trump is trying to force the company to agree to a merger with Paramount, consolidating media with his allies the Ellisons. But states can...
prospect.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal.
prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...
prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode.
pitchbook.com/news/article...
pitchbook.com/news/article...
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode.
pitchbook.com/news/article...
pitchbook.com/news/article...