Yes, our #InformationEnvironment has been transformed. #MarshallMcLuhan suggested that was in part because #politicians had become #icons in the age of #electronic #media, an idea I explored in this 2022 piece: doncurren.blogspot.com/2022/11/they...
September 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Yes, our #InformationEnvironment has been transformed. #MarshallMcLuhan suggested that was in part because #politicians had become #icons in the age of #electronic #media, an idea I explored in this 2022 piece: doncurren.blogspot.com/2022/11/they...
*** “in our transformed #informationenvironment, with its premium on attention, drama and passion, #democracy can’t be defended simply by #legal constraints and #rationalpolicies.” *** timothygartonash.substack.com/p/how-should...
How should Germany defend its democracy?
Don’t ban the AfD or embrace it, but instead constrain it legally and fight it politically
timothygartonash.substack.com
September 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM
*** “in our transformed #informationenvironment, with its premium on attention, drama and passion, #democracy can’t be defended simply by #legal constraints and #rationalpolicies.” *** timothygartonash.substack.com/p/how-should...
to see why ppl don't know stuff u have to look@ their informationenvironment.
a quick glance back thru what 2 1/2 centuries is rife with printed +disseminated baldfaced lies. not to mention the roadmap of events they incited or obfuscated.
nothing happened in a vacuum to make ppl ill-equipped.
a quick glance back thru what 2 1/2 centuries is rife with printed +disseminated baldfaced lies. not to mention the roadmap of events they incited or obfuscated.
nothing happened in a vacuum to make ppl ill-equipped.
August 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
to see why ppl don't know stuff u have to look@ their informationenvironment.
a quick glance back thru what 2 1/2 centuries is rife with printed +disseminated baldfaced lies. not to mention the roadmap of events they incited or obfuscated.
nothing happened in a vacuum to make ppl ill-equipped.
a quick glance back thru what 2 1/2 centuries is rife with printed +disseminated baldfaced lies. not to mention the roadmap of events they incited or obfuscated.
nothing happened in a vacuum to make ppl ill-equipped.
This Cato Institute webinar is off to a very good start. How can we stop Trump, Brendan Carr, FCC, and cronies from censoring truths they do not like?
Speakers from Public Knowledge, ITIF
#InformationEnvironment #Lies #Unprecedented
Speakers from Public Knowledge, ITIF
#InformationEnvironment #Lies #Unprecedented
June 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This Cato Institute webinar is off to a very good start. How can we stop Trump, Brendan Carr, FCC, and cronies from censoring truths they do not like?
Speakers from Public Knowledge, ITIF
#InformationEnvironment #Lies #Unprecedented
Speakers from Public Knowledge, ITIF
#InformationEnvironment #Lies #Unprecedented
"If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the #informationenvironment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison."
#socialmedia
#Bluesky
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
#socialmedia
#Bluesky
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy
www.newstatesman.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the #informationenvironment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison."
#socialmedia
#Bluesky
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
#socialmedia
#Bluesky
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Tallinnassa vietiin 9.5. jälleen kukkia pronssisoturin muistomerkille. Osa paikallisesta venäjänkielisestä yhteisöstä kunnioitti neuvostosotilaita, vaikka voitonpäivän symboliikka on Virossa rajoitettua.
Lähde: ERR
#OSINT #Estonia #Tallinn #9May #InformationEnvironment#NordicOSINTmonitor
Lähde: ERR
#OSINT #Estonia #Tallinn #9May #InformationEnvironment#NordicOSINTmonitor
May 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Tallinnassa vietiin 9.5. jälleen kukkia pronssisoturin muistomerkille. Osa paikallisesta venäjänkielisestä yhteisöstä kunnioitti neuvostosotilaita, vaikka voitonpäivän symboliikka on Virossa rajoitettua.
Lähde: ERR
#OSINT #Estonia #Tallinn #9May #InformationEnvironment#NordicOSINTmonitor
Lähde: ERR
#OSINT #Estonia #Tallinn #9May #InformationEnvironment#NordicOSINTmonitor
If you’re attending, visit us at CIC’s information booth to learn more about our graduate programs and unique cyber workforce offerings!
View the agenda: www.afcea.org/events/dod-c...
#CWS #CyberWorkforce #DoD #CIC #Cybersecurity #AFCEA #NDU #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment
View the agenda: www.afcea.org/events/dod-c...
#CWS #CyberWorkforce #DoD #CIC #Cybersecurity #AFCEA #NDU #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment
www.afcea.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you’re attending, visit us at CIC’s information booth to learn more about our graduate programs and unique cyber workforce offerings!
View the agenda: www.afcea.org/events/dod-c...
#CWS #CyberWorkforce #DoD #CIC #Cybersecurity #AFCEA #NDU #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment
View the agenda: www.afcea.org/events/dod-c...
#CWS #CyberWorkforce #DoD #CIC #Cybersecurity #AFCEA #NDU #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment
“In a September 2025 report, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz & his Columbia University colleague Maxim Ventura-Bolet
use economic modelling to show why the #InformationEnvironment is DETERIORATING
🚩and explain why AI will make it WORSE unless governments intervene.”
#AI🟰EndOfTRUTH‼️
use economic modelling to show why the #InformationEnvironment is DETERIORATING
🚩and explain why AI will make it WORSE unless governments intervene.”
#AI🟰EndOfTRUTH‼️
“Main conclusion is, without #regulation, markets will #systematically produce more #disinformation & less truth—
🚩AI will compound the problem.
Today’s disinformation challenge cannot be solved by asking people to behave better online;
it can only be solved by fixing structures that produce it”
🚩AI will compound the problem.
Today’s disinformation challenge cannot be solved by asking people to behave better online;
it can only be solved by fixing structures that produce it”
A Nobel economist models how AI rots the information environment | The Strategist
Most Australians already know something is wrong with our information environment. An Australian National University survey of 20,000 average Australians found disinformation consistently ranked among...
www.aspistrategist.org.au
May 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
“In a September 2025 report, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz & his Columbia University colleague Maxim Ventura-Bolet
use economic modelling to show why the #InformationEnvironment is DETERIORATING
🚩and explain why AI will make it WORSE unless governments intervene.”
#AI🟰EndOfTRUTH‼️
use economic modelling to show why the #InformationEnvironment is DETERIORATING
🚩and explain why AI will make it WORSE unless governments intervene.”
#AI🟰EndOfTRUTH‼️
Trump’s execution-themed posts drive police complaints and a surge in threats against six Democratic national-security lawmakers. #Trump #PoliticalViolence #SeditiousSix #Congress #CivilMilitary #CapitolPolice #InformationEnvironment #WashingtonPost
Democrats seek police action on Trump’s ‘threatening’ social media posts
Lawmakers responded to Trump writing that they should be arrested and potentially punished by death for encouraging service members to disobey illegal orders.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trump’s execution-themed posts drive police complaints and a surge in threats against six Democratic national-security lawmakers. #Trump #PoliticalViolence #SeditiousSix #Congress #CivilMilitary #CapitolPolice #InformationEnvironment #WashingtonPost
HVK’s August 2026 review: Finland’s information environment remains calm. Two inauthentic campaigns and minor activity detected, with no assessed impact on information security.
Source: HVK
#NordicOSINTmonitor #Finland #InformationEnvironment #HybridThreats
Source: HVK
#NordicOSINTmonitor #Finland #InformationEnvironment #HybridThreats
September 3, 2026 at 9:03 PM
HVK’s August 2026 review: Finland’s information environment remains calm. Two inauthentic campaigns and minor activity detected, with no assessed impact on information security.
Source: HVK
#NordicOSINTmonitor #Finland #InformationEnvironment #HybridThreats
Source: HVK
#NordicOSINTmonitor #Finland #InformationEnvironment #HybridThreats
#Canadians are perilous to not agreeing on basic #REALITY
“… a #President with utter contempt for #truth aggressively using the #government’s full powers to dismantle #FreePress
… a #post-truthAmerica
#Right-wing #billionaires have pounced, buying up #MSM & rebuilding the #InformationEnvironment …”
“… a #President with utter contempt for #truth aggressively using the #government’s full powers to dismantle #FreePress
… a #post-truthAmerica
#Right-wing #billionaires have pounced, buying up #MSM & rebuilding the #InformationEnvironment …”
Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda
The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.
theintercept.com
March 4, 2026 at 10:22 AM
#Canadians are perilous to not agreeing on basic #REALITY
“… a #President with utter contempt for #truth aggressively using the #government’s full powers to dismantle #FreePress
… a #post-truthAmerica
#Right-wing #billionaires have pounced, buying up #MSM & rebuilding the #InformationEnvironment …”
“… a #President with utter contempt for #truth aggressively using the #government’s full powers to dismantle #FreePress
… a #post-truthAmerica
#Right-wing #billionaires have pounced, buying up #MSM & rebuilding the #InformationEnvironment …”
#InformationEnvironment is more than just social media and cable TV.
Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip - www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... "Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company’s books and placing them on lower shelves" big publishers don't give a damn about authors
Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip
Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company’s books and placing them on lower shelves
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#InformationEnvironment is more than just social media and cable TV.
@dryad.technology such is, as it is now. Seems like most us have been slow to adapt to a changing #informationenvironment and SOME of us have learned how to exploit that, at never before seen scale.
July 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@dryad.technology such is, as it is now. Seems like most us have been slow to adapt to a changing #informationenvironment and SOME of us have learned how to exploit that, at never before seen scale.
DOJ action against the SPLC uses federal enforcement authority to directly challenge civil society organizations, signaling a broader use of state power to contest and weaken institutions that identify extremist threats. #DOJ #SPLC #CivilSociety #InformationEnvironment #APNews
What to know about the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants.
apnews.com
April 23, 2026 at 3:51 AM
DOJ action against the SPLC uses federal enforcement authority to directly challenge civil society organizations, signaling a broader use of state power to contest and weaken institutions that identify extremist threats. #DOJ #SPLC #CivilSociety #InformationEnvironment #APNews
Trump’s recent directives leave U.S. servicemembers navigating legal ambiguity and moral pressure, heightening civil-military strain. #Trump #Military #Veterans #CivilMilitary #UseOfForce #RuleOfLaw #MilitaryLaw #NationalSecurity #Pentagon #CommandClimate #InformationEnvironment #NYTimes
Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Trump’s recent directives leave U.S. servicemembers navigating legal ambiguity and moral pressure, heightening civil-military strain. #Trump #Military #Veterans #CivilMilitary #UseOfForce #RuleOfLaw #MilitaryLaw #NationalSecurity #Pentagon #CommandClimate #InformationEnvironment #NYTimes
Trump’s recent directives leave U.S. servicemembers navigating legal ambiguity and moral pressure, heightening civil-military strain. #Trump #Military #Veterans #CivilMilitary #UseOfForce #RuleOfLaw #MilitaryLaw #NationalSecurity #Pentagon #CommandClimate #InformationEnvironment #NYTimes
Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Trump’s recent directives leave U.S. servicemembers navigating legal ambiguity and moral pressure, heightening civil-military strain. #Trump #Military #Veterans #CivilMilitary #UseOfForce #RuleOfLaw #MilitaryLaw #NationalSecurity #Pentagon #CommandClimate #InformationEnvironment #NYTimes
Trump intensifies a coordinated retaliation campaign against ABC News and named journalists, using official channels to erode media independence and normalize state-driven narrative suppression. #Trump #PressFreedom #MediaRetaliation #InformationEnvironment #APNews
Trump steps up attacks on ABC and Jimmy Kimmel, says network should 'get the bum off the air'
ABC is in President Donald Trump's crosshairs this week. He attacked the network's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel in a post-midnight social media post, saying ABC should “get the bum off the air.”
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Trump intensifies a coordinated retaliation campaign against ABC News and named journalists, using official channels to erode media independence and normalize state-driven narrative suppression. #Trump #PressFreedom #MediaRetaliation #InformationEnvironment #APNews
Trump’s second-term White House uses MAGA influencers to push personnel purges, racist harassment, and pressure campaigns against perceived enemies. #Trump #MAGA #InfluencerEcosystem #InformationEnvironment #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #NationalSecurity #MediaEcosystem #Reuters
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Trump’s second-term White House uses MAGA influencers to push personnel purges, racist harassment, and pressure campaigns against perceived enemies. #Trump #MAGA #InfluencerEcosystem #InformationEnvironment #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #NationalSecurity #MediaEcosystem #Reuters
Execution-themed posts ignite a wave of bomb threats targeting six Democratic national security lawmakers. #Trump #SeditiousSix #BombThreats #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #Congress #USArmy #USNavy #USAF #USMC #USCoastGuard #Veterans #InformationEnvironment #NewRepublic
Dem Lawmakers Get Bomb Threats After Trump Calls For Their Execution
The president’s use of violent language has had severe and frightening consequences.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Execution-themed posts ignite a wave of bomb threats targeting six Democratic national security lawmakers. #Trump #SeditiousSix #BombThreats #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #Congress #USArmy #USNavy #USAF #USMC #USCoastGuard #Veterans #InformationEnvironment #NewRepublic
Trump’s new sedition-themed posts ignite a real-world bomb-threat cascade against six Democratic national-security lawmakers. #Trump #SeditiousSix #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #Veterans #Congress #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment #NewRepublic
Trump Goes On Unhinged Tirade Against Dem “Traitors”
The president apparently couldn’t sleep, and decided to post his way out.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trump’s new sedition-themed posts ignite a real-world bomb-threat cascade against six Democratic national-security lawmakers. #Trump #SeditiousSix #PoliticalViolence #CivilMilitary #Veterans #Congress #NationalSecurity #InformationEnvironment #NewRepublic
Right-aligned media weaponizes the “military mutiny” narrative to redefine lawful oversight as disloyalty and bolster Trump’s punitive framing. #Trump #Veterans #MilitaryCommunity #Servicemembers #USArmy #USNavy #USAF #USMC #USCoastGuard #CivilMilitary #InformationEnvironment #WashingtonExaminer
Democrats are openly calling for a military mutiny
Six congressional Democrats released a remarkable video calling on troops to refuse what they implied to be Trump's unlawful commands.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Right-aligned media weaponizes the “military mutiny” narrative to redefine lawful oversight as disloyalty and bolster Trump’s punitive framing. #Trump #Veterans #MilitaryCommunity #Servicemembers #USArmy #USNavy #USAF #USMC #USCoastGuard #CivilMilitary #InformationEnvironment #WashingtonExaminer