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Partons d’une hypothèse farfelue et au doigt mouillé.
Disons que chaque employé cotise socialement et globalement à hauteur de 50000 euros par an.
Équivalent à 3 milliards d’euros par an.
Qui au lieu d’aller dans les services publics ou la communauté vont dans la poche de BigTech.
Microsoft, qui fait face à des coûts importants en raison de ses investissements dans l'IA, vient d'annoncer un plan de départ volontaire concernant 60 000 employés, soit 27 % de son effectif mondial.
Privet Politology/SVR - You've been pwned...again.
INPACT/AEOW has received hundreds of very recent documents dated of 2025-2026 about the SVR-controlled Politology network.
alleyesonwagner.org/2026/10/27/b...
It’s becoming a meme during this mandate, comms take over politics.
When facing the reality of actions, empty shells such as "associate membership" or "democracy shield" are dismantling all trust and respect for the Commission.
This leadership is leading us to a deep catastrophe.
This was always the risk with 🇪🇺President @VonDerLeyen's "associate membership" gambit.
It was never real (there is no such thing and there won't be), it was branding. But people will notice when it goes missing from the Montreal summit.
And now, that may look like retreat after Trump's threats.
This is probably the best ad I've seen against using generative AI: Mayer, who was an engineer at Google and a chief executive of Yahoo, has rotted her brain so much she can no longer classify her daughter as "empathetic, creative and an animal lover". The slide of competence is incredible.
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To some extent, it shows exactly how Vucic and Bolsonaro were defeated this weekend.
Don’t engage on non-sense. Don’t engage on stupidity. Focus on delivering good policy to your constituents/voters. They’re not stupid.
Trump wrote 1,300 words on Bill Maher, making it the longest Truth Social post he’s ever posted, and exactly 0 words on how he plans to end the Iran war, provide health care to Americans, and bring the cost of living down.
🧵 With voting underway, the Trump administration is trying to stop ballots from being counted, starting with lawsuits in California and Alaska.
Despite their flimsy claims, the suits may lay the groundwork to challenge results or contest certification after Election Day.
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Il s'agit donc bien d'un terrorisme blanc, ouvertement raciste et xénophobe. Il a été encourage, voire fabriqué par les médias "mille collines" qui nous parlent d'"intifada" depuis une semaine.
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
Le respect de la presse au RN a manifestement autant de valeur que les démentis de Jordan Bardella sur ses écrits antisémites.
Soutien aux confrères et consœurs admirables du journal.
Trois semaines après les menaces, dénoncées par 39 sociétés de journalistes, de Marine Le Pen contre @mediapart.fr («costard en Kevlar»), son service d’ordre expulse nos journalistes de son congrès, avant intervention des attachés de presse (images Omeya Gessoum/TF1).
Force aux collègues sur place!
Trois semaines après les menaces, dénoncées par 39 sociétés de journalistes, de Marine Le Pen contre @mediapart.fr («costard en Kevlar»), son service d’ordre expulse nos journalistes de son congrès, avant intervention des attachés de presse (images Omeya Gessoum/TF1).
Force aux collègues sur place!
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Systemic lies on the Cambridge Analytics scandal.
And that’s before all the other scandals we learned about.
US Courts show the way. What is Europe waiting to do ?
It’s been almost two weeks.
"Words of condemnation of the US sanctions must now be matched by concrete action"
It’s another defining moment for the EU. Will it stand strong on its values or will it remain silent and de facto enable that we’re just a colony of the US imperium ?
‼️ In an Open Letter to the European Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, the Coalition for the ICC calls for the immediate activation of the EU Blocking Statute to protect the ICC from the sanctions imposed on the United States on 9 October 2026.
📌 coalitionfortheicc.org/sites/defaul...
‼️ In an Open Letter to the European Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, the Coalition for the ICC calls for the immediate activation of the EU Blocking Statute to protect the ICC from the sanctions imposed on the United States on 9 October 2026.
📌 coalitionfortheicc.org/sites/defaul...
Beaucoup d'émotion au moment d'accueillir mon ami @aa.disinfo.eu dans l'Ordre national du Mérite, en lui épinglant la décoration. Une reconnaissance de son courage, de son esprit pionnier et de sa générosité.
"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories...
"But this alliance now exists."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
But by the time we get to the truth underneath these allegations, the camera and attention will have moved on. There won’t be a correction of the record. At least not one anyone will notice. And many of the lives used to prop up the illusion will still be ruined.
Despite evidence of widespread #spyware targeting within 🇪🇺EU institutions, the bloc has yet to take its own security problem seriously, let alone introduce EU-wide legislation specifically addressing spyware misuse.
My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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Rappel d'usage : ce n'est pas parce que des acteurs étrangers instrumentalisent pour leur propre agenda une situation sociale explosive en France qu'ils ont la capacité d'influer dessus. (Je lis ou entend çà et là depuis deux jours des commentaires qui me semblent évacuer toute prudence.)
Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.
Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro
www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
There's so much good stuff coming from the @eurosky.social crew, we barely have time to pause and talk about it!
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Big, with @noupside.bsky.social: It turns out that the majority of Community Notes published on X aren’t just AI-generated, they’re AI-generated by X itself!
Renée and I discuss how this happened and what it might take to course correct a program we — despite everything — continue to see value in.
The signs are now frequent and systematic enough to justify the debate about whether the US is acting as a foreign information manipulation and interference actor.
What does this mean for the EU’s credibility in countering FIMI? Tauno Tõhk asks.
@toehk.bsky.social
🔺 NEW INVESTIGATION
When the EU fined Elon Musk's X €120M, Trump, Musk and a US ultraconservative Christian legal group closed ranks. All were already campaigning against EU platform regulation,& work together
We mapped it. We call it the Triangle of Madness
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/t...
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A federal judge on Tuesday again blocked President Trump’s attempt to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, ensuring the outlets will have access to the complex as their legal case to overturn the ban continues.
For years, researchers have described how generative AI would change influence ops. But something more interesting is happening now: AI is running the back office. A Wagner entity even used Claude to rate employees & recommend whom to fire.
From me, at Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/prod...
💥An Israeli think tank whose "sovereignty index" and studies reached reputable media and academia is actually part of a Russian influence operation. Leaks show the Kremlin's propaganda firm Social Design Agency planned influence ops as early as 2024. VSquare.org
So there currently a raging debate on X, Bluesky & other platforms where people are using a drop in Cloudflare's YandexBot traffic to claim that right-wing online engagement is falling. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238...
That conclusion doesn't follow from the data.