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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 6d

me guardo esto para cada vez (y son muchísimas) que tengo que explicar que necesitamos algoritmos, pero no los que tenemos (excepto en Bluesky!)

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 7d

Al menos esta vez la alternativa al carbón no son herramientas del campo y pupitres…

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 10d

There is a key question to know your position on the Zucman Tax: do you have a net worth above 100M EUR?

www.politico.eu/article/gabr...

France can’t stop talking about Gabriel Zucman — and his wealth tax

The 38-year-old economist has a recipe to save the EU’s second-biggest economy from a debt crisis — but will the government dare take it?

www.politico.eu

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21d

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 21d

España no te la acabas

illo @daine.bsky.social · 21d

Ningún chiste que haga yo para acompañar esto supera a la noticia.

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 21d

Also, el verano más fresquito del resto de tu vida

www.20minutos.es/nacional/aem...

España vivió en 2025 "el verano más cálido" de su historia y la Aemet prevé un otoño con altas temperaturas y pocas lluvias

'El país ha estado oficialmente 33 días bajo ola de calor', indican desde el organismo, lo que representa uno de cada tres días del verano.

www.20minutos.es

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 21d

My feeling, based a lot on AW and DFRLab work, is that X hasn’t change the “ideology” of the algorithm per se, but weaponized it through the people paying for the blue tick, which skews things far right due to the nature of intense users.

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 21d

Two ideas here: there are two variables that might drive the radicalization, changes on algorithmic ranking or changes in the users’ base average ideology. This looks at it algorithmwatch.org/en/the-musk-...

The Musk Effect: X’s impact on Germany’s election - AlgorithmWatch

AlgorithmWatch and the DFRLab have produced new research on X during German elections. We analyzed X posts by German politicians as well as prominent anti-far-right organizations, and found that the m...

algorithmwatch.org

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 24d

Senior management at the political / diplomacy / international relations world right now:

- Opens Edge (they use edge, of course)
- Types: www.google.com
- Types: What is
- Check notes and types: Discord
- Confused face while reading

a man in a wig is reading a newspaper

ALT: a man in a wig is reading a newspaper

media.tenor.com

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 24d

Es interesante que esta operación de influencia, que parece que lleva bastante tiempo andando, es quizás solo un éxito por el pánico que ha provocado, no por la influencia que haya podido tener. Este artículo me parece muy interesante:

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Lies Russia Tells Itself

The country’s propagandists target the West—but mislead the kremlin, too.

www.foreignaffairs.com

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 25d

ok, so I guess now I have to explain to a lot of people what @discord.com is (and isn´t) right?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room

www.nytimes.com

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 27d

This is how a democracy defends itself; with rule of law and due process

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

www.nytimes.com

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 29d

O esto

bsky.app/profile/nvon...

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 29d

Now seemingly an everyday occurrence - Russia threatening the existence of an EU (and now also) NATO state

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · 29d

First Sri Lanka, then Bangladesh, now Nepal.

South Asia is in turmoil and that teaches a lesson when we see democracy eroding everywhere: people will always demand better politics, better government. It is not a question of “if” but of “when”

www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

www.himalmag.com

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is the current profile of the White House on LinkedIn. No comments needed.

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 5

Key insight from @kkomaitis.bsky.social on a key topic we don’t focus enough: the seemingly unstoppable take over of internet governance from authoritarian forces

dfrlab.org/2025/09/05/a...

Analysis: China's bid to rewrite the internet's DNA

Clock is ticking as Beijing moves to control the technical rules governing the next generation of the internet

dfrlab.org

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Por supuestísimo las dos, que renueven ya el Falcon que nos va a dar un disgusto.

Como siempre, Wikipedia:

es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpo...

Transporte aéreo de jefes de Estado - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporte_aéreo_de_jefes_de_Estado

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hay que cambiar la narrativa: el sector privado no sabe gestionar

Jacobo Dopico @jacobodopico.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is not (except in the case of X) a secret policy of these companies to favour one or the other, is lack of social responsibility and ownership of their impact, which is PRECISELY what the DSA tries to fix

Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 3

It is not surprise political ideas that align with democratic values and principles are the ones that the algorithm -that is fine tuned just to engage- finds boring and doesn’t amplify, censoring those voices.

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 3

Lets call a spade a spade:

Algorithmic amplification is the only censorship taking place in Europe. Because the algorithm is amplifying certain content (and we know how that works) it is also reducing the reach of other, which is effectively censorship.

#DSA

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 3

+1 con la intransigencia con la impuntualidad! Entre eso y mi opinión sobre los horarios de comida etc me van a quitar el pasaporte 🤣

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Sep 3

I don’t always agree with @daphnek.bsky.social , but this is a brilliant primer that should be read by anyone wanting to say something about the US fixation with the EU digital rulebook

Also, that is how you do conclusions

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act

Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were true, it would be a very big deal. As some...

cyberlaw.stanford.edu

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Aug 29

Not surprising, but still one of the actions by the US administration that most damage can do...

www.justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-d...

Dismantling the Foreign Malign Influence Center

Tulsi Gabbard is dismantling the last U.S. government organ dedicated to tracking State-sponsored efforts to interfere in U.S. institutions.

www.justsecurity.org

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Alberto Fernández Gibaja 🇪🇺 @gibajaalberto.bsky.social · Aug 23

No dudéis ni un minuto que si esto hubiera sido al revés la prensa sueca estaría sacando a relucir sus ideas de superioridad bien rapidito

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Con 16 años y a bordo de un patinete: detienen a un menor sueco que viajó a Málaga para cometer un asesinato

La Policía Nacional ha detenido a su compinche de 19 años y a las cuatro personas que les dieron soporte logístico en la Costa del Sol, aunque éstas han quedado en libertad

elpais.com