Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

@stepru.com

4.2K followers 580 following 1.2K posts

Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com‬ • CEO Whisperer & Adjunct Professor of practice in YUL 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Disinformation, Propaganda, Democracy; MBA Marketing & Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Comms & Credibility 🇨🇦 • Eng Fra 中文 • Vegan

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 1d

China is no more a developing country
via @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/chin...

China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs

China has announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country in World Trade Organization agreements.

apnews.com

2 3

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 7h

😳

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 8h

Have you read Mark Bray’s book, @joncooper-us.bsky.social?

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 9h

Keep on your great work Mark!

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 11h

Have you read Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book?
I bought it yesterday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1 4 10

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 1d

China is no more a developing country
via @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/chin...

China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs

China has announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country in World Trade Organization agreements.

apnews.com

2 3

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 1d

I bought Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:.... Can't wait to read it.

2 3

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 1d

That's crazy and outrageous! Death threats for a book published in 2017!
@mark-bray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 1d

Well done! Enjoy Spain, the US are crazy!

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

The 'Iron Lady' of Venezeula, an opposition leader who is currently in hiding, has been lauded by the Nobel Committee.

Who is Maria Corina Machado, 2025 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?

The 'Iron Lady' of Venezeula, an opposition leader who is currently in hiding, has been lauded by the Nobel Committee.

bit.ly

10 23 110

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 1d

So this just arrived. On sale October 28.

3 3 24

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 3d

Is the universe really one big black hole?
via @newscientist.com
apple.news/A8WvExR1HQji...

Is the universe really one big black hole? — New Scientist

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

apple.news

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 4d

iPadOS 26 is making me think about dumping my MacBook Air
@romansempire.bsky.social This is what I just did yesterday 😂 No more MacBook, just an iPad now.
apple.news/A4mA_cgZcQIa...

iPadOS 26 is making me think about dumping my MacBook Air — Macworld

At WWDC25, Apple’s Craig Federighi called iPadOS 26 the “biggest iPadOS release ever,” and he’s not exaggerating.

apple.news

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 5d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

130 740 5.6K

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 5d

lovely cat

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 5d

Trump doesn’t have the mental capacity nor the intelligence of knowing and understanding he’s lying.

1 1

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

11 56 210

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

defector.com

240 1.1K 3K

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 8d

Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk

US president has proposed measures that Royal Swedish Academy of Science VP says will ‘have devastating effects’

www.theguardian.com

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 8d

I don’t boycott Netflix because Musk says so. Enough is enough!

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d

Musk is trying to get his acolytes to cancel Netflix “for the sake of your children” because it has an already-cancelled animated show with a trans character.

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 12d

Wait! What? ChatGPT is a smart chatbot, not a marketing platform.

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 13d

War criminal’s propaganda

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 13d

foreign influence and disinformation campaigns
👎🏻👎🏻

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 13d

As Moldova heads to the polls today, it does so in the midst of coordinated foreign influence and disinformation campaigns.

Electoral integrity and free and fair elections are not self-evident. That should be a reminder for everyone.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Moldova heads to the polls in tense vote that could steer country closer to EU or Russia

President Maia Sandu says parliamentary vote is Moldova’s ‘most consequential election’ and warns against falling deeper into Moscow’s orbit

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 13d

Ad history gone? 🤯

Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone

www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

Google just erased 7 years of our political history

Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for coun...

www.thebriefing.ie

3 48 85

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 13d

sadly, Russian tried to influence the debate for sure.

Stéphane Prud’homme, PhDc @stepru.com · 14d

All dressed chips were a Canadian secret. Now they have a shot at U.S. stardom.
via @thestar.com
apple.news/AfE9yVFRRRWO...

All dressed chips were a Canadian secret. Now they have a rare shot at U.S. stardom — Toronto Star

For decades the 'all dressed' potato chip has been a made-in-Canada oddity. Now it's on the cusp of winning over legions of hungry Americans

apple.news