@dzuidijk
Covering misinformation, disinformation and the business of online influence more generally for Bloomberg News. Writes about the games industry when time allows. New Magic The Gathering player. Get in touch with tips and/or invites
Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon's decision to declare it a threat to the US supply chain in court. “We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court,” Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said in a blog post on Thursday
My story doesn't get into all of the other things that I saw at the Pokemon event today, but the screenshot below gives a good idea of the other news
The Pokemon Company confirmed the long rumoured existence of their next mainline games today.
Pokemon Winds and Waves will be released simultaneously in 2027 for the Switch 2 and - as the leaks previously suggested - be set in a tropical world with what looked like underwater environments
Who should I be following in the TCG/TTRPG space on Bluesky? I’m particularly interested in D&D, Magic and Pokemon, but I’ll take any and all recommendations…
Both Polymarket and Kalshi pitch themselves as sources of truth in a time of epistemic uncertainty, but detractors say they are just glorified forms of gambling
My most recent session of arena got a bit out of hand #MTG #magicthegathering
“Despite her residing in the UK, the terms of the order are so broad that they extend to the privacy of her own home, even when speaking to her own family.”
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s publisher reflects on Meta’s ongoing attempts to silence the author
White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.
OpenAI considered referring the 18-year-old behind one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history to the RCMP but ultimately determined that their activity did meet the threshold for alerting law enforcement
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales called Elon Musk’s Grokipedia a “cartoon imitation of an encyclopaedia” during an interview on the sidelines of India’s AI summit
Marco Rubio’s appointment as Trump’s Secretary of State was greeted with skepticism by many in the MAGA movement, but the long time Neocon has emerged as one of Trump’s most powerful advisers
For the first time, the EU is attempting to mitigate social media addiction. Excellent article from Politico👇
"Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems."
The disparity between Europe, the US and Russia is illustrated by a *series of* terrifying graphics that accompany the story.
France and the UK have about 400 deployed warheads between them compared with America’s 1,670
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European capitals are once again talking about developing their own nuclear weapons.
The region has long depended on the US for its deterrent, but it is now facing the prospect being left alone with Russia’s nuclear arsenal
Interesting contrast in coverage: a misleading, vested-interest report suggesting heat pumps raise UK bills made headlines.
Our peer-reviewed UK research showing high real-world efficiency across hundreds of homes was largely ignored by the media.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Foreign companies that run data centres in India will be exempt from taxes on overseas services until 2047
Bitcoin hasn’t had the best start to 2025. After failing to respond to the economic turbulence of January, the digital currency fell below $80,000 on Saturday
That will show me for not clicking through to your profile! I’m working how much I can buy now…
Where are these from?
Trump said he will meet with several parties over his ambition to take control of Greenland during the upcoming World Economic Forum
Key paragraph 👇🏽
“When Musk slashed staff at Twitter, including content moderators, it provided cover for other firms to take similar, if less drastic, actions.” (1/3)
Governments across Europe quickly launched investigations after the scandal broke, but the US - X’s largest market - has so far been slow to act (1/3)
Grok’s ability to to produce sexualised images are not just a test for Elon Musk’s xAI, but the loose-knit structures designed to regulate the industry more generally (1/3)
Attempts by some conservative influencers to suggest that Greenlanders welcomed the prospect of a US takeover stand in stark relief to the sentiment on the ground in the semi-autonomous Danish territory
Did you see the claim from the Government in the House of Lords that "10.8 million families use X as their main news source"?
Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.
I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.
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