political scientist • PhD Leiden, MPhil Oxford, formerly on the frontlines of EU public diplomacy 💬 security, technology, democracy 🔎 misinformation
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Misinformation, disinformation, fake news, propaganda, algorithmic amplification, influence operations, bots, AI bias,… 😵💫
How to deal with what looks like information chaos?
What is at stake for Europe?
👉🏼 A few takeaways from my PhD thesis: universiteitleiden.nl/en/new…
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I wrote my PhD thesis on how states construct and manage information environments, and who benefits from controlling them.
When I heard that a so-called “information market” @Polymarket running on @Polygon was labelled a “truth machine”, I knew I had to dive deeper.
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I never thought my love of techno and my work in democratic theory would end up in the same essay.
Then, an Italian mayor named Silvia Salis organised a rave and emerged as Meloni's biggest contender.
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Apr 22
My latest piece on EDM culture, agonistic spaces, and why the dance floor might be more politically relevant than parliament right now: sophiepomme.com/silvia-salis…
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Apr 18
Foreign Ministers of Ireland, Slovenia and Spain, have written to HRVP @kajakallas on the urgent situation in the Middle East.
Read full letter here: gov.ie/en/department-of-fore…
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Apr 19
An underreported skill in politics: using international legitimacy to bury a domestic crisis.
Sánchez this week is a textbook case of narrative displacement. Don’t rebut a damaging frame, change the arena where the questions get asked.
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Apr 7
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.
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Apr 7
Whether this happens or not, the clock is ticking: every leader has until 8pm tonight to defend their credibility. Speak out — clearly, unequivocally — or own the silence.
Apr 7
The president of the United States, 8:06 am ET, threatens Iran: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.“
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The demand for European tech is real. The infrastructure, the awareness, and the political will haven't fully caught up yet. Is #DigitalSovereignty about to become a campaign slogan?
via @techpolicypress
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Mar 29
Two landmark verdicts in a week against @Meta: one in California for #addictively designing platforms harming children’s mental health, and one in New Mexico for concealing child sexual #exploitation.
What are the implications for Europe?
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Mar 29
The verdicts on Meta are morally and rhetorically powerful for Europe, but they won’t open floodgates of civil lawsuits the same way they might in US courts.
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Mar 29
What they likely will change for Europe are the speed of EU regulatory #enforcement timelines, stronger political #will to tackle platforms’ harmful design, and Meta’s reduced ability to argue in any proceeding that its choices were benign or unintentional.
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