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I should have known better. I do know better. And yet, thanks to a thread posted on the evening of Good Friday I managed to do what no sane person should ever do: I made myself the main character of Bluesky. The first post in the thread has...

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Guess who's coming (back) to Davos

I can’t say for sure – I’m not there – but it’s hard to shake the impression that the mood at the World Economic Forum, up in the mountains of Davos, might be less cosy than usual this year.

It’s the first ever Davos event without its foun...

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Disinformation Wars: The Extended Edition

It has been quite some time since I posted properly here. Hopefully this post will make one of the reasons why obvious (there is a small postscript at the end as to the other reason).

Today, the Verge has published a lengthy, reported feat...

6 months ago
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Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.

He tweets you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you debate

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What if "big data" just…isn't worth very much?

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    Tech, policy, politics. Political editor @ The New World, Fellow @ Demos, newsletter @ techtris, PhD researcher @ UCL Laws. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World.

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