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International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof University of Notre Dame; Fellow-Bard College; Associate-Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Oct 21

Soooo excited that these have arrived! Get your copy now for the best insights on industry's role in propaganda co-edited with me & Vian Bakir. With unmissable contributions from authors such as
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Alexandra S Chalupa, Nick Cull Jonathan Ong, Marie Santini, Débora Salles,

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 3h

Went to my first @notredame.bsky.social football game today! LOTS OF FUN!

Me standing in front of the stadium with my 'First Game Certificate' smiling

Me standing in front of the stadium with the band behind

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 14h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats are the underdog.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22h

Glad that NYT went to some of the smartest, most clued in experts, @whitneyphillips.bsky.social who is the bomb when it comes to abusive internetting, and @shannimcg.bsky.social an expert in media and social media in politics.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with ones native to the internet while also controlling the political narrative.

Trump’s Aides and Officials Take Political Battles Online

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 14h

*shakes head, rubs chin*
"...this ain't gonna be cheap!"

Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 14h

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you value my expertise on #propaganda and #disinformation, you should also check out my #Udemy course - it provides an essential introduction bsky.app/profile/emma...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s another winner of the Israel peace deal: Qatar’s lobbying machine

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Here’s another winner of the Israel peace deal: Qatar’s lobbying machine

The tiny Persian Gulf country has been working for years in Washington to change its image as a backer of violent Islamist groups.

www.politico.com

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 15h

The Future of Intelligence Is Open

The United States’ strategic edge in spying needs to be AI and open-source intelligence.

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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 15h

So I don't expect a significant diplomatic impact from this. If it had been a system that fell under the Wassenaar dual-use system & hadn't been properly tracked it would be a different story.

But many Western commercial parts are in Russian drones.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

British parts found in Russian drones, Zelesnky says

The Ukrainian leader says British-made microcomputers were used in weapons launched at Ukraine this weekend.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15h

good thing a load of universities are throwing their lot in with this, right?

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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16h

what happened, happened

Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill

The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.

www.wired.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

The difficulty is also, perennially, how do you arouse enough feeling and action among people who generally see themselves as moderate and who have thus far been unwilling to do a great deal to defend a pluralistic and democratic cosmopolitan society?

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

Compromising with those trying to unpick democracy in the name of compromise and moderation is not going to be the answer, particularly in this moment.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

The data is interesting - my impression from the article though is that Brown might support a Starmerist approach. My worry is that while moderates are more numerous still internationally, increasingly the radical right are more militant and are gaining more institutional power. It may take a change

The vast majority of the global public are somewhere in between: not narrow, inward-looking nationalists, as “America first” ideology would suggest, or all-in cosmopolitans. They are patriotic but don’t see the world as in a never-ending struggle between the “us” and the “them”, adversaries permanently set apart from each other in an unbridgeable divide.

Do the majority in the middle prefer a duty-free or a dutiful world? Are they prepared to accept obligations beyond their garden gate or city wall? Yes, under certain conditions. A first group, 22%, will back humanitarian action to relieve suffering and are prepared to act out of altruism, supporting emergency help for disaster zones. Those we might call “good cause” multilateralists feel the pain of others and believe in something bigger than themselves.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

in tactics if the majority moderate voices what to keep their world stable or they may well see power seized from their grasp.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 16h

I am at the phase of putting post-it notes on my phone to remember things to write. 🤣🤣 It's quicker to scribble and stick than fiddle with another app to type into, don't even try to digisplain anything, it's my process and I like it.

#AdventurousResearch

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

This is a rare well evidenced and hopeful read!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’ - Research Professional News

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

Urgh!!!!! This is terrible but unsurprising.