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Building things on the fault-line between media, technology and democracy. CEO/co-founder . Founder . Worked at & .

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    Apr 23

    I've spent a decade trying to figure out the role of human expertise in the age of the algorithm. A year of Infodemic clarified everything (thanks to my team for teaching me these lessons)

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    24 hours ago

    The question I’m wrestling with today: Has there been a topic covered as extensively as online safety (particularly on social media) for as long as it has been (+15 years) without anything seemingly changing? Quick🧵

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  3. Oct 25

    “When we stop caring about what happens to faraway members of the human race, then we also stop caring about those closer to home. Ambivalence, nihilism, and cynicism are part of this package too.”

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  4. Oct 25

    When it comes to globalised threats like misinformation, big tech needs to develop a fierce curiosity about the language, dialect and tradition that shapes its local impact (some great starting insight from here) 2/

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  5. Oct 25

    Speaks to the critical design flaw in Silicon Valley’s blueprint for global expansion. Complex cultures are reduced to ‘growth markets’. All the critical subtleties are lost in mistranslation 1/

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  6. Oct 25

    Words to live by in this age of information overload (from this long read) )

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  7. Oct 24

    “A story as thick and unctuous as South Carolina’s low country mud”

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  8. Oct 24

    One of the most repressive places on the planet is also one of the biggest threats to the climate of the planet.

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  9. Oct 23

    Constantly amazed by the little quirks of global culture that speed the spread of misinformation. Brilliant examples here from ⁦⁩

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  10. Oct 23

    Jaw dropping stat: Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions fell by just 3.6% last year, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. They had fallen by 4% in 2019.

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    Oct 23

    Ireland fails to meet 2020 EU emissions targets via

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  12. Oct 23

    Don’t let the Glassholes inherit the earth … how to stop the slide into a world of “luxury surveillance”

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  13. Oct 23

    The hard thing about easy ways to “fix the internet” is they often break things of true value on the internet. Case in point 👇

    Anonymous doesn't = fake. We get that not everyone likes people not using their real names on Twitter, but for some, maintaining anonymity is the difference between feeling safe or not. Read more on how online identity works:
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  14. Oct 23

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    .’s has grown into my favorite weekend/downtime listening experience. It’s consistently excellent—and this week’s episode (and the cliffhanger that comes with it) is outstanding.
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    Oct 21

    "China’s internet watchdog has said articles from Caixin, one of the most prominent and trusted Chinese business publications, can no longer be republished by online news services, in the latest blow to journalism and free speech in the country."

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    Oct 22

    Civil society, academic and especially *government* people should be yelling about the Russia's newest clampdown on online speech. Russia needs to know you're watching, even if their leaders don't care. Platforms need to know you're watching, so they can decide how much to care.

    This is such an important & powerfully told story on Russia's "digital iron curtain" There's lots to worry about in internet policy from a US perspective, but we CANNOT forget the global nature of this problem at all layers of the internet stack
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  17. Oct 22

    You don’t have to be a European entrepreneur to enjoy this (but it helps). If only for a beautiful anarchic Berlin right after the fall of the wall. In the ‘End of History’ was a new beginning.

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    Oct 22

    In our Weekly Wrap, we recommend a recent thread from , a book from , and reflect on the article published on this week:

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    Oct 21

    Interesting piece by for Gotta love a tech piece that references witches, the Ottoman Empire, and Arabic. To mitigate disinformation, think global and act local. We need to resurect and reorient the term "glocal"

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  20. Oct 22

    “The metaverse would become the ultimate company town” … how a sci-fi warning could become a corporate takeover (lots to ponder beyond the simplistic headline)

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  21. Oct 21

    By dawn’s early light

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