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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 6d

Very well deserved - congratulations

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 7d

“aND iT HASn'T woRKed” - unlike your caps lock

Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 7d

open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...

The damned BBC - annoying, wrong headed, essential

It is the worst media and news service, except for all the others

open.substack.com

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 8d

This should be compulsory listening for the whole government. We need some facts to be made widely known to the public. That’s what government is supposed to do- public service information.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8d

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 17d

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation

An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.

www.bbc.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 19d

@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements.

From the Democracy for Sale podcast.

youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, & accountability

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtu.be

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 22d

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 23d

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 22d

Including climate

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 23d

I sense that we have to resolve normalcy bias, with some urgency, to engage in some of today's societal meta-problems.

thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...

What is the normalcy bias?

The normalcy bias describes our tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster and believe that life will continue as normal, even in the face of significant threats or crises.

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 24d

The first time I read that I missed “pestle and” …. 😳😆

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 27d

Some politicians blame the statisticians when the statistics look grim. How does blaming the messenger generally work out?
timharford.com/2025/09/why-...

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · 29d

Practise run …

Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · Sep 8

Proper journalistic impartiality or objectivity absolutely takes standpoint and context into account and weights them. False equivalence is bad practice, not the benchmark…

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.bsky.social · Sep 8

Basic media and information literacy. (Currently out of fashion)

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Sep 8

For the uninitiated, "consider the source" is literally applied standpoint epistemology as it warns us to consider the positionality and context of a given source, and how it shapes the information they're giving us, BEFORE we include it in our reporting.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Sep 8

This, too, is deeply problematic for someone of Silver's stripe whose whole thing is making "objective" claims about shit without considering that he might be proceeding from a given positionality. Beyond that, this is massively ironic given one of journalism's adages is "consider the source."