Michael Simeone
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1. With the January 6th Committee set to begin hearings again soon, we took a look at the Telegram chatter surrounding this year's anti-vax trucker convoys, widely seen as the the spiritual successor to the #January6thInsurrection. We found an online bazaar. newamerica.org/future-frontli…
New piece with Candace Rondeaux and Ben Dalton on the adaptability of Alt-Tech in the service of stoking rebellion, and a quick dive into Telegram data from the 2022 Freedom Convoys slate.com/technology/202…
Our Michael Simeone, Candace Rondeaux, & Ben Dalton are in Slate's Future Tense on how the alt-tech movement has taken to Telegram, as shown by this year's trucker convoys. slate.com/technology/202…
Our director Candace Rondeaux & New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 analyze the AUKUS security pact from a planetary politics perspective: how will other countries react for better and worse? …curityanddefenceplus.plusalliance.org/essays/some-aw…
Hear Alex J. Rouhandeh discuss this story and more with Shawn Walker and Michael Simeone ⬇️ x.com/Newsweek/statu…
Latest episode with Shawn Walker after our hiatus. This one is a look at the material circulating before the 2022 midterms and how misinformation is creating a pretext for violence around voting shows.acast.com/misinfo-weekly…
In Arizona, local officials tell me rhetoric from election deniers is unfounded and making their jobs dangerous. "They're not doing this based on their knowledge of the system," Stephen Richer said. "If they were, then they would be down here touring it."newsweek.com/shatter-proof-…
shows.acast.com/misinfo-weekly… Latest episode where we look at election conspiracies and their prevalence for the 2022 Midterms, with Shawn Walker
Latest episode evaluating early trends observed on The New Twitter under Elon Musk , with Shawn Walker shows.acast.com/misinfo-weekly…
NEW: A leaked report from the #Jan6 Committee highlights the role of social media in spreading the “big lie.” The report features New America's Future Frontlines expert analysis on alt-tech platform Parler as a major channel of influence. 💻 wapo.st/3XmvB0e
Our work with Future Frontlines Featured in the referenced memorandum: Parler and its unique climate was leveraged by elected officials to seed and encourage extremism. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
.Candace Rondeaux: "That suggests that there is some concern in the Kremlin that there could be some sort of retribution or some sort of operational revenge plan that Prigozhin had in place in case of death." #Prigozhin #WagnerGroup
Huge congratulations to Amber Wutich, a senior global futures scientist, Arizona State University professor and the director of ASU Center for Global Health who has been selected as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow! MacArthur Foundation #MacFellow macfound.org/fellows/class-…
#FirstView from Politics&LifeSciences - Evolutionary biology as a frontier for research on misinformation - cambridge.org/core/journals/… - Michael Simeone, Kristy Roschke (Vanderbilt University) & Shawn Walker
