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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 10d

“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...

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

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 10d

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

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

TechCrunch

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17d

Xi is really good at this stuff.

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 17d

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge

* Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better"
* Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30%
* Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22d

“We aim to win, not unite.”

Steve Bannon

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

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

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27d

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

TikTok content farms pivot to Charlie Kirk hoaxes

AI tributes and conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination got 32 million views

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27d

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

We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves

If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis.

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27d

"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...

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

www.ft.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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.

www.wired.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 11

“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...

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

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 10

"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...

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...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 9

"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

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

‘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.

www.rte.ie

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed.

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 6

“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...

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.

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

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

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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.

www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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...

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Aug 25

"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...

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

WIRED

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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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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.

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Aug 25

"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...

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.

www.reuters.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Aug 13

"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...

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

The Guardian

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Aug 11

"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 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.

www.cnn.com

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