Long time listener to the Rest is Politics podcast. Yes, centrist Dad. Rory Stewart is a real comfort blanket. Mainly because over the years he’s been so consistently wrong on most things. Impressively consistent.
Hedgehog and cat all but ignoring each other. But the hedgehog has dark thoughts about a clearly illegal feline use of a designated hedgehog highway. 🦔
For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.
A very damp and hungry hedgehog totally ignoring the slugs also sharing the biscuits. Sound on for biscuit crunching. 🦔
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
"I’m interested in what viral communities look like in nature. The overwhelming majority of these are bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria."
💬 @ryancook94.bsky.social
The impact of local media decline on local elections was the subject of my undergrad dissertation - two decades ago.
Even then, titles were spread so thin they couldn't meaningfully cover issues or candidates. That social stepped into the information vacuum was 100% predictable.
🦠 Could microbes help recover the critical minerals needed for future technologies?
That's what our scientist Prof. Martin Warren @vitaminb12lab.bsky.social was discussing in Washington DC last week ⤵️
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Andrew Stronach
Andrew Stronach
Patch Thompson
This is how the correction/crash begins:
—AI dumping from China
—US AI firms growth slows
—Markets reprice sector which reprices,,,everything.
Andrew Stronach
Tim Bale
Video
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
Sharon O'Dea
Quadram Institute
Quadram Institute
Tim Bale
Video
Scott Galloway
NEW: New evidence local Facebook/other social media groups fuelling misinformation - filling void left by retreating local media.
Misinformation 3x more in areas with little/no recognised local journalism.
Misinfo peaks at local elections. MPs concerned
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Researchers from the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia went to Washington DC to show their expertise in engineering biology
