Mark Little

Social Media’s Changing Narrative of the Israel-Gaza War

“Israel’s public position — a nation forced into a defensive war and making every effort to minimize civilian casualties — is eroded by more documentary evidence each day” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

Spread by Matt Abrams: OpenAI's new social app is filled with terrifying Sam Altman deepfakes TechCrunch

“Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” joinspread.com/post/5e0c989...

Xi is really good at this stuff.

With Calls for Retribution Over Kirk, Some See Rise of a ‘Woke Right’

“We aim to win, not unite.”

Steve Bannon

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TikTok content farms pivot to Charlie Kirk hoaxes AI tributes and conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination got 32 million views

53 videos with fabricated claims about Kirk reached 31.9 million views over three days indicator.media/p/tiktok-con...

We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis.

“If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

Utah governor blames social media for fomenting US political violence Spencer Cox said accused shooter of Charlie Kirk had been a ‘very normal young man’ who was radicalised online

"I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last five, six years" www.ft.com/content/00d8...

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

“This is all psychologically damaging to our society in ways we don’t understand" www.wired.com/story/charli...

Remember When Things Were Better in the ’90s? A.I. Does Too.

“Living in a time of fractured attention & fractured politics, is it any wonder people would rather spend time being mildly scolded by A.I.-generated ’80s kids who seem to know what the world is about than to try to make sense of our own chaotic times?” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/s...

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We need to make the same thing happen this time.

No, that wasn’t Angela Rayner dancing and rapping: you’ll need to understand AI slopaganda | Marcus Beard The qualms about using AI imagery and deepfakes in politics are breaking down. It will soon just be part of the political language we all use, says digital, disinformation and AI specialist Marcus Bea...

"Similar to the millions of image macros and cat memes created in the mid-2000s, AI slop will soon just be part of the political language we all use. We might not like to see it, but, right now, that’s exactly why it goes viral." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life"

Not a business plan but a horror movie

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‘Touching grass’, Gen-Z's fight back against big tech Tech entrepreneur and journalist, Mark Little, discusses the challenges Gen-Z are facing and – importantly – the resilience they are showing and what the rest of us can learn from them.

If you want a glimpse of a future where humanity has a more intentional and resilient relationship with technology then pay attention to the digital natives www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Sounds like something Storyful would be interested in but not involved with the company so couldn't be sure

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed.

RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

“Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard.”

When you’ve lost the New York Post editorial board … ??!!! nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

“This is massive. This will cause generative A.I. companies to sit up and take notice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

A telling indication of the limitations of the current crop of GenAI systems right here www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...

Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message America’s democratic system depends on the public’s understanding that law is bigger than politics, David Frum argues. But now, Trump is sending a clear message that he is willing to go after his enem...

“Trump is teaching his many supporters that public office is just a game of revenge” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Spread by Eitan Shamir: Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law WIRED

"We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies" joinspread.com/post/12df823...

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.

"An open war against free media, with the aim of terrorising journalists and preventing them from fulfilling their professional duty of exposing its crimes to the world." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Spread by Dayle Ohlau: Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe The Guardian

"The hot weather across Europe has dried out vegetation and allowed wildfires to spread further, in what scientists have described as a “molotov cocktail” of climatic conditions." joinspread.com/post/321618a...

Israel kills multiple journalists in Gaza, including prominent Al Jazeera reporters | CNN An Israeli strike in Gaza City late Sunday night killed seven people including at least four journalists from news network Al Jazeera.

"The order to kill Anas Al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, along with his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence voices ahead of the occupation of Gaza" www.cnn.com/2025/08/10/m...

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

“Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement” … guess what they found? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Pro-Trump Influencers Admit They're 'Not The Best Journalists' After Disastrous Netanyahu Interview “Sure, we're probably not the best at asking questions," said Full Send Podcast co-host Kyle Forgeard, who asked if the Israeli prime minister prefers McDonald's or Burger King.

"Asking him if he prefers Burger King or McDonald’s… While people are starving… this is insane"

www.huffpost.com/entry/nelk-b...

The End of Work as We Know It CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a

“I am hired by CEOs to figure out how to use AI to cut jobs. Not in ten years. Right now.”

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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

“This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war and it will lead to many more deaths unless food and aid is let in immediately.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...