I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.
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Après la France, au tour de l’Italie d’ouvrir une enquête criminelle à la suite des mauvais traitements subis par les militants de la flottille pour Gaza.
Rappelons que des Canadiens ont aussi subi le même sort.
Enquête bientôt ?….
L’Agence des services frontaliers est en train de singer l'ICE étasunien en séparant des enfants vulnérables de leurs parents
I'd like to share this again as a reminder that ethics should be prioritized when conducting open-source research on Iran. Not everything needs to be geolocated and shared publicly. Goal is not just to verify information, but also to avoid causing harm to the people behind it.
New on @indicator.media: We have long known that some "face swapping" apps market themselves as deepfake nude generators. At least one of these was used in a recent case in a US high school.
But new research shows the majority of these tools do not have any guardrails against nonconsensual abuse.
This beautiful piece by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social is an important touch point in this week's Notes on Hope essay (linked in the previous post). I'm sharing Sandy's essay here too, because I really hope you will read it in full, if you haven't already.
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
Today, @thewalrus.ca has published an excerpt of my book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on the Canadian far-right, Blood and Soil. You can read it for free here: thewalrus.ca/what-three-e...
ANALYSE | Les projets de logements à but non lucratif ont été fondamentalement transformés par la CAQ après une décennie au pouvoir.
🖊️ Par Francis-Hébert Bernier.
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Italian prosecutors put Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last month, a judicial sour...
Reminder that people in Iran are still living under repressive conditions where security forces can still knock on someone’s door. Not everything needs to be geolocated and shared publicly, especially footage filmed from inside buildings that could reveal someone’s home.
