Just two weeks before the meeting at European University Institute on digital constitutionalism and platform governance with damian tambini, Roxana Radu, @jennifercobbe, Nicolas Petit, @SRanchordas, @AJrGolia, Claudia Haupt, Miguel Poiares Maduro. More info and registration link👇

Right now, we’re staying in touch with the networks’ CEOs while they do everything possible to reconnect customers quickly. Customers who need extra help should contact their network operator.

When power is restored, we’ll be looking into how the storm has been handled, including the resilience of GB’s power infrastructure for extreme weather, and the speed of the networks’ responses.

What a silly thing to say. How does a Panzer tank in the IWM glorify the Third Reich? You know what does 'glorify' it - statues of Nazis - which is why they were removed! Historical artefacts are material history, statues are totems of veneration. This stuff is not difficult!

For the first time, #IPCC has highlighted the threat that mis-/disinfo pose to climate action - something our coalition has analysed and reported on since 2020. In a press release circulated today w/ partners like Conscious Advertising Network Friends of the Earth (Action) CCDH and CSSN (Moved to Bluesky @cssn.org), Institute for Strategic Dialogue said:

“We have a clear taxonomy of harm for other issue areas, including public health and electoral integrity, which have shown how such content translates into real-world impacts for both individuals and societies. While the climate sector has long argued the same...

...until now we have lacked recognition from key entities like the IPCC, UNFCCC and COP on the dangers posed by a muddied, polarising information space. Bad actors are using a tried and tested playbook to weaken public mandates and create confusion on the viable solutions...

There is a lot of noise in the UK about a #NetZero referendum, largely fuelled by high-vis pundits like Nigel Farage and groups like Net Zero Watch pushing the narrative on GB News, talkRADIO, The Sun etc. Institute for Strategic Dialogue has been monitoring this closely since COP26 and can reveal👇

There is *no parallel interest* evidenced across social media. I repeat, despite continual profiling in the mainstream media, our data suggests the public are either uninterested or actively criticising the idea online. The graph below shows all mentions since Jan 1 2022…

When spikes do occur, they are driven by small media flurries or public statements, rather than ground-up discussion from users around this cause. The first on 4-5 Feb relates to Farage’s comments on GB News, then pushed by Darren Grimes and others to try and create a controversy

The 2nd on 15 Feb was pushed by Net Zero Watch and journalist Isabell Oakeshott, again relating to a segment with Farage on GB News. Oakeshott was romantically involved with Reform UK leader Richard Tice, profiled in this excellent exposé from DeSmog UK. desmog.com/2022/03/10/nig…

The largest spike on 7 March maps onto - guess what! - Farage formally announcing his campaign and the aftermath. It was amplified by Oakeshott and figures like Toby Young, but the most-shared post in this period actually OPPOSES the referendum (Marina Purkiss, 1312 retweets).

In short, DO NOT GIVE THIS IDEA OXYGEN. The Net Zero Scrutiny Group, Net Zero Watch, CAR26, Reform UK and their wider orbit of affiliates have a clear strategy - they are trying (and arguably succeeding) to manufacture outrage about a referendum and then retrofit public support.

Activity has since petered out to negligible volumes - around 50 posts per day. This is scraping for any tweets that contains “net” “zero” and “referendum” in some form. Even with a growing media soapbox, these actors cannot generate interest online for more than a few days.

Femi AFAICT it's actually putting the lie to one of the great Brexit myths. It's not EU legislation that's saved the French here, it's a strong soverign nation creating and applying rules for the benefit of its people. Whereas we've got #LifeInAFailedState

BCRPM - British Museum refuses access to the Parthenon Marbles parthenonuk.com/latest-news/62…

‘Repetition, repetition, repetion’ Steve Bannon’s main training principle. A vivid, detailed case study of how an individual with money - Chinese billionaire Miles Guo - becomes a global disinfo organisation. advice. The Influencer, by Daniel Friedman. share.audm.com/share/mojo/the…

Wow - the human/AI interface is about to get weirder. US Copyright Office just ruled that works "autonomously created" by algorithms cannot be copyrighted. This is the work they rejected:

Maybe instead of leaks and gossip about government’s plans for ‘model’ history curriculum, we could have openness and transparency about who is composing it? And some guarantee of consulting full range of school and scholarly expertise?

Remember my post from a few days ago where I said that my photographs of the University Library look like the ones that used to appear on the covers of Ladybird books? Well follower Joe McIntyre has very kindly obliged - thanks! Cambridge University Library Ladybird Books Helen Day