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One of the biggest threats we face to democracy is disinformation.

Our friend's at @MediaRevolution have pulled together Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, and Carole Cadwalladr, an investigative journalist working on Big Tech, to a focused panel at the RSA.

If you're in London next week, we'd highly recommend checking it out and meeting these brilliant people face to face.

Learn more here: https://www.thersa.org/events/2026/02/disinformation-and-democracy/

#SocialMedia #BigTech #Democracy #Disinformation

The RSA

Disinformation and democracy

Join Eliot Higgins, Carole Cadwalladr and Media Revolution at RSA House for a timely discussion on disinformation, deepfakes, AI propaganda, and the future of democracy.

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social · last week

@newsmast @MediaRevolution

Tenet Media & Russia

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-trump-administration-scores-visa-for-founder-russian-propaganda-outlet-tenet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/

It is critical to enact transparency legislation to identify who funds mass malign influence campaigns.
https://www.status.news/p/larry-ellison-2020-election-cbs-news-january-6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/larry-ellison-trump-2020-call-b2084757.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html

For example, there is insufficient information on Larry Ellison's role in the Jan 6 disinformation.

The Bradley Foundation was not the only #BigLie funder for 2020. There were others.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet

Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

The New Yorker

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.

Status

Ellison and the Lie

As Larry Ellison’s media empire expands, unanswered questions about his views on the 2020 election now carry real stakes as Jan. 6 is reframed and the next presidential race approaches.

The Independent

Billionaire Larry Ellison plotted with Trump aides on call about overturning election

Unclear how long Oracle chairman’s involvement lasted

https://www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor

The New Republic

Trump-GOP Panic Over ICE Grows as MAGA Goes Off Rails: “Race Traitor!”

With Republicans admitting ICE is political poison even as MAGA figures demand more brutality, The Contrarian’s Jennifer Rubin explains how Democrats can exploit this moment to split the Trump coalition.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter

They’re Seizing the Ballots and Voter Rolls

An FBI raid yesterday in Fulton County is a dark harbinger of what’s to come

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor

The New Republic

Trump-GOP Panic Over ICE Grows as MAGA Goes Off Rails: “Race Traitor!”

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

"(As this newsletter was being finalized Thursday evening, Trump did a gaggle where he admitted there is no draw down in Minnesota, telling reporters he’s not pulling back and 'nothing is going to change.')"

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter

They’re Seizing the Ballots and Voter Rolls

An FBI raid yesterday in Fulton County is a dark harbinger of what’s to come

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

Approval numbers are plummeting, he feels checked with ICE and Minnesota (though he refuses to de-escalate). Queue wild diversions, from raiding an election office, resurrecting lies about the 2020 election being stolen, advancing Tulsi Gabbard as the new face while Kristi Noem is shoved to the side, arresting Don Lemon.

As Peter Rothpletz says,

"A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive."

#Trump #lies #misinformation. #ICE #violence #authoritarianism
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https://zeteo.com/p/blowing-smoke-and-mirrors

💨 Blowing Smoke and Mirrors

A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive, Chuck Schumer pirouettes on thin ICE, and Amy Klobuchar threw WHAT!?

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4 weeks ago

"Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."

~ Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congress-clawing-back-ice-funding

Congress Clawing Back ICE Funding Would Just Be a Start

This Congress must rise to the moment as others have, to enact laws that both reach back to our founding ideals and reach forward to inspire generations to come. They must not fail.

Alex Akselrod and 1 other boosted