Manuel Puppis

Manuel Puppis

@manuelpuppis.ch

Professor of Media Structures & Governance at DCM, University of Fribourg. Vice-President Swiss Federal Media Commission. Doing comparative research on media policy, platform governance, digitalization of the public sphere, Swiss media system.

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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Beim ÖRR in #Serbien gibt es Bewegung. Der Chefredakteur und verantwortliche Redakteur von RTV Vojvodina ist zurückgetreten. Die Hauptnachrichtensendung) von RTV begann mit einer Entschuldigung an die Zuschauer: „Der öffentlich-rechtliche Sender hat seine Aufgabe über viele Jahre nicht erfüllt.“

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Auf dem Öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender RTS1 läuft voll sie spannende Reportage über Beerenanbau in Serbien. Ist heute natürlich wichtiger als über die vielen Unregelmäßigkeiten und die Gewalt an den Wahllokalen zu berichten oder darüber, dass das Regierungsviertel gerade abgeriegelt wird.

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Zustellförderung ist nicht Bablers späte Rache, sondern “bemerkenswerte Konsequenz in einem Land, wo sich die Politik seit Jahrzehnten vor diesem Boulevard fürchtet und vor sich hertreiben hat lassen” 👏 @kappachers.bsky.social im Morgenjournal, 19.10. | Radio Ö1 oe1.orf.at/player/20261...

oe1.orf.atORF-RadioDas digitale Radioangebot des ORF. Alle öffentlich rechtlichen Radiosender Österreichs auf einer Plattform. Live und 7 Tage lang im Stream on Demand.

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Der Bund geht von "erheblichen Schäden" beim #Cyberangriff auf einen Softwarelieferanten der #Pensionskasse des Bundes #Publica aus. "Besonders betroffen sind die Sicherheitsorgane des Bundes", heisst es in einer vertraulichen "Informationsnotiz", wie der "Sonntags- @blick.ch " schreibt.

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The tech oligarchs are the greatest threat to the world.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

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Jetzt ihr: Was ist der korrekte Begriff dafür, dass die ARD Tagesschau eine zentrale Formulierung aus dem Zitat des neuen Friedenspreisträgers Philippe Sands löscht? Die Redaktion macht aus Sands' „eine echte, nicht rassifizierte Staatsräson für Deutschland" kurzerhand „eine echte Staatsräson"

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And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

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Tausense Menschen die zusammengepfercht werden, gezielt ausgehungert, geschlagen, gefoltert, terrorisiert. Deutschland unterstützt diese Politik. Kritischer Diskurs wird unterdrückt. Wir haben kollektiv schlicht aufgehört Palästinenser als Menschen zu betrachten. Das ist unsere Staatsräson.

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Dürfen wir vorstellen? Das ist Helmut (eigentl. Maurice Luca) Strauf, im Vorstand der AfD-Jugend, der unverhohlen nicht nur den Anschluss Österreichs an Deutschland als Ziel nennt, sondern gleich die deutschspr. Schweiz, Südtirol und weitere Gebiete mit deutschsprachigen Minderheiten inhalieren will

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I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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The EU Kids Act adds a new layer to an already dense regulatory landscape. Jessica Galissaire unpacks how it relates to the Digital Services Act, AI Act and Digital Fairness Act, and what that means for the EU's online safety enforcement.

buff.lyWhere Does the KIDS Act Fit in the EU’s Digital Rulebook?Jessica Galissaire unpacks how the EU KIDS Act fits with the Digital Services Act, AI Act and Digital Fairness Act, and what it means for online safety.

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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social

the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.

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Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.

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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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"The amount of time it takes now to go from companies claiming an AI breakthrough to Bernie Sanders proposing a bill is really short, and that’s not a good thing." -@timnitgebru.blacksky.app 👆🔥 www.wired.com/story/one-of...

wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Der Titel passt gut, wenn man darüber nachdenkt, wie eine Redaktorin auf die Idee kommt, ein Gespräch mit Manfred Spitzer zu führen.

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Timnit and collaborators contributed original research and METHODS that shaped the emergent field of AI safety and biased training data. AI developers “discovering” what independent scholars proved a decade ago is insulting and only reveals corporate ignorance.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts.

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NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...

broligarchy.substack.comThe killing of a black manA French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap

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Prof der TU Darmstadt behauptet im ZDF „Ethnopluralismus“ (völkischer Rassismus fancy ausgedrückt) sei einfach regulärer Teil des demokratischen Ideenaustauschs. Das geht jetzt ganz schnell.

Cihan Çelik@cihancelik.bsky.social

Den medialen Umschwung im Umgang mit der AfD kann man auch am Hofieren solcher Experten beobachten: Völkische, verfassungsfeindliche Konzepte werden nun als ganz normaler Teil des demokratischen Pluralismus normalisiert.

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These polls are just western plots to convince people an election should be decided by voters.

Pell ou Ze@pellouze.eurosky.social

So there's this online contest to vote for the 38 most influential people on bluesky, but @darthputinkgb.bsky.social is only #466. Most certainly the vote is rigged by western imperialists. Votes are closing in 2 weeks bsky38.com/profile/did:...

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Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

politico.comThe little-known AI group that got $660 millionPowered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

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Gerne würde ich das Thema #IWP #Luzern ausblenden. Aber es lässt einen nicht los. Was ich diese Woche erlebt habe, gehört erzählt. 🧵

Marius Brülhart@mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Ganz unabhängig von Personen: Das #IWP #Luzern ist ein institutioneller Sündenfall. Eine Organisation mit weltanschaulicher Vorgabe, propagandistischer Mission und intransparenter Finanzierung gehört weder in noch an eine #Universität.

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Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

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here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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