Tom King

@tallgeekychap

I work for . "A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching." Views personal.

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Joined March 2011
Born on February 24
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    Jul 2

    If you want to save democracy in the USA, invest in independent, investigative journalism like . Now. It might already be too late.

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    19 hours ago

    How Centrism Works

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    11 hours ago

    Tribalism = Lab outrage at LDs maybe voting w Tories on mental health. Lab not outraged at their MPs actually voting w Tories on Brexit.

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Happy America. Here's a message from your current best spokesperson.

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    Jul 3

    Our response to the ICO’s investigation into the Royal Free. We’ve worked hard on some major improvements.

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    Jul 2

    If you want to save democracy in the USA, invest in independent, investigative journalism like . Now. It might already be too late.

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  7. Jul 2

    Hui Chen, who has resigned from , speaks out on corporate compliance in the age of Trump:

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    Jul 2

    BREAKING: DoJ's corporate crime watchdog resigns, says Trump admin makes it impossible to enforce compliance laws

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  9. Jul 2

    To be honest, I doubt either Obama or Clinton are laughing about Trump, if they ever were.

    "He tweeted a WWE video...wait for it...of himself dry humping a guy with a CNN head"
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    Jul 2

    Jefferson: “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”

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    Jul 2

    1/ Here's a small example of how journalism organizations are committing suicide in their desperate grasp for a business model.

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  12. Jul 2
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    (Also, all of this means 'loss of trust' in traditional media sources is A Good Thing. Restoring trust only comes thru better quality.)

  13. Jul 2
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    So. What to do?

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  14. Jul 2
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    And at the same time quality media was failing to respond to those tech changes, because their business model was cratering.

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  15. Jul 2
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    But the focus should be on the fact that disinformation has been given rocket boosters - it scaled, fast, due to tech improvements.

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  16. Jul 2
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    (But I'm sceptical, given my own experience of higher education and literary criticism, that people are really being taught to do that.)

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  17. Jul 2
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    This isn't to say I'm against further and deeper education involving critical thinking and genuine analysis of context.

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  18. Jul 2
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    Given the purveyors of disinformation want to destroy the concept of truth completely, is *yet more scepticism* what we want to encourage?

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  19. Jul 2
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    If at the same time the quality of information becomes degraded or lost in a swamp of infotainment and disinformation, what do you expect?

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  20. Jul 2
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    Teach people to become more savvy about the information they read and the sources that provide it, and they will.

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  21. Jul 2

    What is the evidence that media literacy is a solution to our problems rather than something that created the conditions for those problems?

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