Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

If you haven’t read “The Jakarta Method”, it is a damn great time to do it

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

me guardo esto para cada vez (y son muchísimas) que tengo que explicar que necesitamos algoritmos, pero no los que tenemos (excepto en Bluesky!)

Al menos esta vez la alternativa al carbón no son herramientas del campo y pupitres…

France can’t stop talking about Gabriel Zucman — and his wealth tax The 38-year-old economist has a recipe to save the EU’s second-biggest economy from a debt crisis — but will the government dare take it?

There is a key question to know your position on the Zucman Tax: do you have a net worth above 100M EUR?

www.politico.eu/article/gabr...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

España no te la acabas

España vivió en 2025 "el verano más cálido" de su historia y la Aemet prevé un otoño con altas temperaturas y pocas lluvias 'El país ha estado oficialmente 33 días bajo ola de calor', indican desde el organismo, lo que representa uno de cada tres días del verano.

Also, el verano más fresquito del resto de tu vida

www.20minutos.es/nacional/aem...

My feeling, based a lot on AW and DFRLab work, is that X hasn’t change the “ideology” of the algorithm per se, but weaponized it through the people paying for the blue tick, which skews things far right due to the nature of intense users.

The Musk Effect: X’s impact on Germany’s election - AlgorithmWatch AlgorithmWatch and the DFRLab have produced new research on X during German elections. We analyzed X posts by German politicians as well as prominent anti-far-right organizations, and found that the m...

Two ideas here: there are two variables that might drive the radicalization, changes on algorithmic ranking or changes in the users’ base average ideology. This looks at it algorithmwatch.org/en/the-musk-...

a man in a wig is reading a newspaper ALT: a man in a wig is reading a newspaper

Senior management at the political / diplomacy / international relations world right now:

- Opens Edge (they use edge, of course)
- Types: www.google.com
- Types: What is
- Check notes and types: Discord
- Confused face while reading

The Lies Russia Tells Itself The country’s propagandists target the West—but mislead the kremlin, too.

Es interesante que esta operación de influencia, que parece que lleva bastante tiempo andando, es quizás solo un éxito por el pánico que ha provocado, no por la influencia que haya podido tener. Este artículo me parece muy interesante:

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room

ok, so I guess now I have to explain to a lot of people what @discord.com is (and isn´t) right?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

This is how a democracy defends itself; with rule of law and due process

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

O esto

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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

First Sri Lanka, then Bangladesh, now Nepal.

South Asia is in turmoil and that teaches a lesson when we see democracy eroding everywhere: people will always demand better politics, better government. It is not a question of “if” but of “when”

www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...

This is the current profile of the White House on LinkedIn. No comments needed.

Analysis: China's bid to rewrite the internet's DNA Clock is ticking as Beijing moves to control the technical rules governing the next generation of the internet

Key insight from @kkomaitis.bsky.social on a key topic we don’t focus enough: the seemingly unstoppable take over of internet governance from authoritarian forces

dfrlab.org/2025/09/05/a...

Por supuestísimo las dos, que renueven ya el Falcon que nos va a dar un disgusto.

Como siempre, Wikipedia:

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Hay que cambiar la narrativa: el sector privado no sabe gestionar

This is not (except in the case of X) a secret policy of these companies to favour one or the other, is lack of social responsibility and ownership of their impact, which is PRECISELY what the DSA tries to fix

It is not surprise political ideas that align with democratic values and principles are the ones that the algorithm -that is fine tuned just to engage- finds boring and doesn’t amplify, censoring those voices.

Lets call a spade a spade:

Algorithmic amplification is the only censorship taking place in Europe. Because the algorithm is amplifying certain content (and we know how that works) it is also reducing the reach of other, which is effectively censorship.

#DSA

+1 con la intransigencia con la impuntualidad! Entre eso y mi opinión sobre los horarios de comida etc me van a quitar el pasaporte 🤣

I don’t always agree with @daphnek.bsky.social , but this is a brilliant primer that should be read by anyone wanting to say something about the US fixation with the EU digital rulebook

Also, that is how you do conclusions

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

Dismantling the Foreign Malign Influence Center Tulsi Gabbard is dismantling the last U.S. government organ dedicated to tracking State-sponsored efforts to interfere in U.S. institutions.

Not surprising, but still one of the actions by the US administration that most damage can do...

www.justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-d...

Con 16 años y a bordo de un patinete: detienen a un menor sueco que viajó a Málaga para cometer un asesinato La Policía Nacional ha detenido a su compinche de 19 años y a las cuatro personas que les dieron soporte logístico en la Costa del Sol, aunque éstas han quedado en libertad

No dudéis ni un minuto que si esto hubiera sido al revés la prensa sueca estaría sacando a relucir sus ideas de superioridad bien rapidito

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

«Cada vez que levanto la vista del móvil lo veo mirando el móvil», lamenta.

Lee la noticia completa en la web: https://f.mtr.cool/pgmnjgjhpu

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone | TechCrunch Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecurity.

The zero-day industry is run by authoritarianism, repression and shrinking digital civic space. It is then no surprise that it is thriving...

This is why we need to reinforce the Budapest Convention, the Wassenaar Agreement and, even if not enough, make sure the PallMall process becomes relevant

DeepSeek delays new model over Huawei chip failure Chinese tech firm DeepSeek had been encouraged to use Huawei technology by government officials.

It is in the chip industry where the geopolitical battle (including around AI) is taking place

www.semafor.com/article/08/1...

Hay que leer a quien mejor conoce la situación y el país. Desgraciadamente, gran parte del genocidio se explica en clave interna israelí 👇

La directora de la ONG israelí B’Tselem: “Un genocidio no empieza de la nada. Israel lleva 75 años de impunidad con los palestinos”