Tech and policy for better democracy. Founder and Exec Director @whotargetsme and Partner @jointogetherhq. Drummer for Fridge. Londoner, transplanted to Cork.
Joined March 2008
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8 Nov 2024
It's completely insane that one of my oldest and closest friends is on this list. He's been working towards this for 30 years. So proud!
8 Nov 2024
#GRAMMYs 2025: Best Dance/Electronic Album nominees
Charli XCX: BRAT
Four Tet: Three
Justice: Hyperdrama
Kaytranada: Timeless
Zedd: Telos
See the full list: pitchfork.visitlink.me/xj_Dm…
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8 Nov 2024
Ok, this probably isn't going to work, but f**k it, we'll do it live.
8 Nov 2024
If we did an impromptu 45 minute lunch discussion about political ads and the US election in about an hour, would you come along?
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8 Nov 2024
One interesting thing about Trump getting cross about a lack of balance when Harris was on SNL is that SNL gets about 5 million viewers, yet is subject to all sorts of media regulation (which is what annoyed him). Rogan gets 11 million listeners/viewers per episode.
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8 Nov 2024
The likeliest outcome in the US is, of course, that TV gets deregulated. In Europe, it points the other way.
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8 Nov 2024
Everyone that isn't America is going to massively over-index on the influencers/podcasts thing, when their media markets look nothing like the US.
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7 Nov 2024
Eventually, someone's going to say "we should put these three hour podcasts on TV" and a few months later they'll realise they're just watching French television, every night.
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7 Nov 2024
Interestingly, my version of that has become a massive fascist since.
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6 Nov 2024
Ooh an election. What a delightful surprise.
6 Nov 2024
Ireland: Prime Minister Simon Harris (FG-EPP) has announced that a national parliamentary election will take place on the 29th of November, 2024.
#Ireland
europeelects.eu/ireland
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6 Nov 2024
Interested in these shifts and the growth of vertical video over the same time period. Is there a way to study it? So hard to know what people actually see in their feeds...
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6 Nov 2024
Possible causes (ruling out the left wing ones):
- Young people feel really, really cut off from economic opportunity (but under 25s? really?)
- Vertical video
- Both
x.com/mtracey/status/1854181…
6 Nov 2024
Incredible. From the Wisconsin exit poll: Trump wins by double digits among voters age 18-24, loses by double digits among voters age 65
Virtually unfathomable 5-10 years ago
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5 Nov 2024
I'm sorry to hear this. Lots of good people here, and always grateful for their support for @WhoTargetsMe over the years.
5 Nov 2024
NEW: Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox maker, has laid off 30% of its staff as it goes through a restructuring, including dropping its advocacy division.
The no. of employees was around 120 before layoffs, according to sources.
mastodon.social/@zackwhittak…
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5 Nov 2024
A good thing to meet people where they are, but there's a risk to reliance on the algorithms and whims of foreign companies.
5 Nov 2024
EXC: A new digital unit is being launched by No 10 – the New Media Unit – as Morgan McSweeney moves to take central control of govt communications
Based in the Cabinet Office, No10 hopes it can sidestep the “Westminster bubble” with a focus on platforms like Instagram and TikTok
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5 Nov 2024
If Labour is worried the "Westminster bubble" isn't giving them a fair hearing, it might also want to look at media ownership, platform monopolies etc. Big job though.
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5 Nov 2024
This very broken website is currently labelling random tweets as ads.
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Sam Jeffers retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Probably nobody in the world has done more damage to the reputation of the pro-free speech/anti-censorship movement (which I support) than Elon Musk, someone who has used these values as cover for spewing a torrent of absurd, self-serving lies and propaganda.
The counter to misinformation is not censorship, but better information
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