Tom Allard

Social media as it should be | The Strategist Mathematician Cathy O’Neil once said that an algorithm is nothing more than someone’s opinion embedded in code. When we speak of the algorithms that power Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube or Google Search...

Good piece on the transformative potential of Open Social Media and @bsky.app, and the challenges ahead.

www.aspistrategist.org.au/social-media...

Cebu BPO executives arrested in US over alleged P2.5-B elderly authors fraud One of those arrested, Michael Cris Traya Sordilla, is also the chairman of the Hiyas ng Pilipinas pageant

Philippines execs, including a beauty pageant impresario, conned low-profile authors into believing movie and gaming studios wanted to option their books. www.rappler.com/philippines/...

Heng Sithy, a Cambodian tycoon who has accused officials and business elites of epic corruption, was arrested yesterday in Russia. Cambodia issued a warrant for his arrest last month and Sithy appears to have gone to Russia expecting to be briefed on drone warfare. www.rfa.org/english/camb...

Before the PH, Alice Guo's 'big boss' invested in Cyprus to get the shady golden passport Huang Zhiyang — appearing to be one of the biggest POGO bosses, wanted in the Philippines for human trafficking, and sued for money laundering — has 2 million euros sitting in Cyprus

The man alleged to be the "boss" behind disgraced Philippines mayor Alice Guo picked up a passport in Cyprus' notorious "golden passports" scheme. An @occrp.org and @rappler.bsky.social collaboration. www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in...

Glad to be joining Bluesky. Twitter is a cesspool full of disinformation merchants and egotists. Musk has lost his mind and his morals.