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Tony Roberts

@phatcontroller.bsky.social

Academic working on digital citizenship, digital rights, digital authoritarianism, digital disinformation, civic tech, digital surveillance and all that jazz. Free typo with every post.

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Isn't it because friendship is nice and fascism is bad?

22.02.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Johnson's Tories were funded by Russian money just as Starmer's Labour is now funded by Israeli 'donations. As Musk decides which right-wing party to bankroll in the next election, is it perhaps time to ban all 'donations' and ask politicians to represent the interests of their constituents?

22.02.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How AI repeatedly discriminates against women

22.02.2026 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Musk endorses white supremacist party in UK (as if the anti-immigrant Labour, Tory and Reform parties weren't bad enough).

22.02.2026 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression

22.02.2026 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6

Surveillance-enabling research

22.02.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If AI is so forking smart ...
then why does it feed me content in the language of every country I travel to instead of serving me content in the languages that I understand? Is that really a big ask for an imminently sentient technology?

22.02.2026 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

22.02.2026 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 453    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

Our biometric digital-ID data will be used against us by the state and corporations.

22.02.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

22.02.2026 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8449    πŸ” 3203    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 70

When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump.

Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok

Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.

03.02.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2714    πŸ” 826    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 37

Remember that The Guardian ran 148 stories carrying the lie that Labour's last authentic PM was anti-Semitic. Pants on fire! The Guardian's function is to act as an Overton Window to restrict critical thinking of the centre left.

21.02.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There was a more authentic PM who doubled Labour's membership ...

21.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly πŸ’₯

21.02.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant

21.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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Why Is Anonymity Important for Activist Safety? β†’ Question Anonymity safeguards activists from reprisal, protecting their well-being and enabling crucial, often risky, efforts for societal change and sustainable living. β†’ Question

Why Is Anonymity Important for Activist Safety?
lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com/question/why...

21.02.2026 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ministers’ Families in the IDF: is that why no prosecutions? It has long been a scandal that British citizens could fight in a genocidal war machine and face no penalty.…

πŸ”₯ This is important. Please do have a read.

21.02.2026 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

β€œIndividual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

21.02.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg faces the jury β€” but not the facts If Big Tech won’t protect children from the harms of social media, Congress has to step in.

Zuckerberg in Denial as he faces his victims in court
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

21.02.2026 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Free mag, delivered straight to your phone. Featuring words from me.

20.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI suppressed evidence of future mass shooting

21.02.2026 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla suffers major court loss as judge upholds $243 million penalty in fatal crash A federal judge rejected Tesla's attempt to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal Autopilot crash. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami upheld the August 2025 verdict finding Elon Musk'...

1/2 Judge just told Tesla to cough up $243M for an Autopilot death. That ain’t a β€œfreak accident,” that’s a pattern. How many crashes you gotta have before we stop blaming β€œbad drivers” and start blaming the genius who coded the car to be dumber than a cabbie?

20.02.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 443    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 9

Are there really no law enforcement agencies in the US interested in enforcing the law in these heinous cases?

21.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It does not appear that any amount of evidence will result in the Attorney General Pam Bondi arresting any of the men who raped and trafficked young girls? Are there really no law enforcement agencies in the US prepared to enforce the law in these heinous cases?

21.02.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Epstein worked for Putin and Mugabe laundering their money through US companies including Trump's failing businesses.

21.02.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The removal of accountability is a necessary step en route to authoritarianism

21.02.2026 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

20.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 699    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 19

Join The Resistance

21.02.2026 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Tory Continuity Party
80% Tory Funders
80% ex-Tories

21.02.2026 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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