Alexandre Alaphilippe
Executive Director EU DisinfoLab www.disinfo.eu / Hummingbird / Searching for James Dubious Crickton /Growing my ethical mussels / Asking PourqOui / Prism in Jeans / 😀🤓🤯🤝
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeI wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippePour rappel, le FSB est informé lorsque nous achetons des billets de train, d’avion ou lorsque nous commandons un taxi. Ils ont visiblement voulu me rappeler (au cas où j’aurais oublié), qu’ils sont sur notre dos en permanence.
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippelittle item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe📬 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧! We’ll leave you breathless, everything you need, all in one place. 🤓 Enjoy the read! 🔗 www.disinfo.eu/disinfo-upda... Don't forget: #Disinfo2026 call for proposals is now open, Submit your ideas for our annual conference! www.disinfo.eu/conference/
- Additionally, a very sensible move for the prosecutor to announce leaving X at the same time. It does not really make sense for enforcement authorities to keep using (and sometimes paying) platforms they're investigating for illegal behaviour.
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe📖 𝒔𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆 (𝒐𝒑𝒑. 𝒏𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆): 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 The DSA requires user-friendly reporting of illegal content. So why the slow, burdensome forms? 🤨 👉 www.disinfo.eu/publications...
- French prosecutor wants to hear Elon Musk, after X’s premises in France were searched this morning. And a lingering question: Could EU Member States be more efficient than the European Commission on cracking down abuses from platforms?
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippePeter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
- Vertigo.
- Je découvre Moltbook.com un réseau social réservé aux agents IA (les humains peuvent observer). C’est vertigineux. Regardez ce post, par exemple :
- Spoiler alert: oui.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeThe arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
- Are you wondering why the legal decision on X's fine was first published by the US House of Representatives rather than by the European Commission? Us too. Especially as we officially requested it to the Commission 3 weeks ago: www.asktheeu.org/request/deci...
- Does it mean it is now legally possible for the European Commission to publish the decision? If yes, why is it not online? web.archive.org/web/20260129... If no, will any actions be taken? (Spoiler alert: no chance).
- Deux poids. Deux mesures. 6 janvier 2021: “I don’t fucking care that they have weapons, they’re not here to hurt me. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here, let the people in and take the mags away.”
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeLe dessin du jour, par Soulcié
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeAbolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
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Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend. - Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeSynthetic doctors are outperforming real ones on social media. I found more than 25 AI health accounts with +8.5 million followers. The Canadian Medical Assoc runs a program featuring real doctors. Its prez told me: "I would say that our following is not as large." indicator.media/p/ai-generat...
- Après Curtis Yarvin à Oxford, voici Peter Thiel à l’Institut. Un signe supplémentaire que les digues intellectuelles tombent, alors que la violence technofasciste ne se cache même plus.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeIngérence étrangère : la revue émiratie « Écran de veille » distribuée à l’Assemblée, Braun-Pivet « On est dans le temple de la démocratie, je ne vais pas commencer à exercer une censure quelconque sur ce qui est distribué aux parlementaires. » www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
- Quand on y pense, ce qu’on demande à n’importe quelle entreprise (même de services numériques), c’est un truc impensable, c’est… …de respecter la loi.
- Et à la fin de la fin, quand il faudra enfin désigner un responsable, ce sera de la faute de la pluie et des fourmis. — Métro 3 : la Commission spéciale prolongera ses travaux bien au-delà des délais annoncés www.lesoir.be/724325/artic...
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe📺 When climate disinformation goes on air, millions are listening. 🎙️ Join our next webinar I 29 January: Climate deception ‘On Air’ Learn how TV and radio are amplifying climate falsehoods and what can be done. 👤 Louna Wemaere (QuotaClimat) 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Faut-il aller sur le terrain des réponses judiciaires si un événement similaire se produisait en Europe ? www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippeim getting disturbing reports that donald trump is doing exactly what he said he would and the results are exactly as disastrous as everyone said they would be
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeI’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
- Boards, membership fees, real estate, participation. Next steps are mergers, NDA, non-competition clause and use of private arbitration to « fix diplomacy ».
- Is it the sound of despair and the smell of upcoming impeachment I’m feeling ?
- This paper from the always excellent @simonkuper.bsky.social cannot be more accurate about the current sociological ethos in Brussels and other European capitals. www.ft.com/content/b387...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeThis is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.
- Cooperation is a countermeasure. I'm very proud we have coordinated that collective work with fantastic partners, which aims at better focusing on IMS and supply chain of disinfo. Thanks to @checkfirst.network, @viginum.bsky.social, @diplo.de, Cassini, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @dfrlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe💥 Happening soon! "Pop Fascism: memes, music, and the digital revival of historical extremism" Today | 15 Jan, 14:30 CET — last chance to register 👇 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippePoland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeJ'insiste souvent auprès des journalistes et de mes autres interlocuteurs sur cet aspect, trop négligé. L'horizontalité et la décentralisation de Wikipédia font qu'il est très difficile de la corrompre ou de faire pression sur elle, en l'absence de décideur ou décideuse.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeFraming a violation of international law in the way of “4 easy steps to optimise your skincare routine” is a new level of ghoulishness. I don’t even know what to say at this point.
- Interesting update. But it is really unfortunate it does not refer to the extraordinary work of @christobuschek.net with The Insider, Der Spiegel and 60 minutes on this story, which showed the GRU's involvement in this case.
- New - DOD has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome… www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeFranco in glitter sunglasses. Mussolini dancing on TikTok. 𝐃𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡? 𝐈𝐟 𝐬𝐨, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. Find out why 🗓️ This Thursday, 15 January | 14:30 CET Our next webinar breaks down how 'pop fascism' works as a disinformation strategy. 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeTom Tomorrow, This Modern World
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- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeEverything that threatens Musk and his bullshit/hate/porn machine(s) — from transparency requirements to being called out for creating CSAM — is “censorship”.
- This would be a crucial feature to research the role of recommender systems in distributing information. Bluesky would become a thought-leader by reintroducing such a feature. Poke @mmasnick.bsky.social @aaron.bsky.team
- In my Bluesky app, I can now see from which of my other feeds the posts originate from in my "discover" feed (see screenshot). This is going in the direction of algorithmic transparency for the user-side that we have been talking about in the past: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeSouth-Park is so on point with the latest seasons it feels like magic
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeThe hard truth: product trust takes time and resources, and it does slow launches. Some companies are avoiding it to move faster—but skipping guardrails means that you end up with scaled damage to thousands or millions of users that is really hard to fix after the fact. /fin
- The current US administration is leaving the Center of Excellence on Hybrid Threats. The CoE is based in Helsinki and provides cooperation and knowledge on Russian agressions in Europe.
- This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Les Etats-Unis réinvestissent-ils leur puissance dans l’hégemon naval ? Cc @arnaudorain.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeHello! Democracy expert here. This is a sign of major distress. Governments only do this when they are planning to ignore the results of elections.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeBrutal, perfect, all the way to the end.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippePourquoi Libération n’emploiera plus l’expression «union des droites» La formule légitime le rapprochement de la droite avec l’extrême droite. Une invisibilisation qui profite à cette dernière
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeFive years ago.
- Prediction markets are now fully integrated in the framing disinformation campaigns require (and can additionally increase the number of financial beneficiaries of such campaigns).
- Another round of cathedral visits ?
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeRussian Spies Found Posing as Fishermen and Tourists in Norway Norway, like many other European countries, has ramped up security in its regions bordering Russia in the years following Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
- La définition empirique du fameux « corollaire Trump » à la doctrine Monroe: diriger directement les pays des Amériques.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeIf this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject. I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe⚠️Wow... This is major! According to @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, Meta had a policy in place to prevent scam ads from being detected by regulators. It's reminiscent of the "diesel dupe" scandal from a decade ago, when major carmakers were accused of using “cheat” software to fake emissions results.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeThis should be a wake-up call for anyone who still dismisses the dangers of online disinformation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeDisinformation is a weapon of war for authoritarian regimes.
- Abuses should be fought in court. Such actions are crucial to rebuke trust in the judicial branch, as a proper check and balance.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeMerry Christmas everyone!!! A bit of real cheer for us all! 🎅🎄🤶🌲
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeQuick explainer I did last night for the other apps. Please watch and share- the Trump administration is trying to bury this arbitrary and cruel restriction of our colleagues’ rights during the holidays. Don’t let them.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeNina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”
- On est en pleine phase de ruck, et il faut rester sur ses appuis. Inlassablement rétablir les faits et ne pas lâcher un centimètre de terrain.
- No “activists” were sanctioned last night. Five Europeans enforcing EU law on European soil were. Their work (and the one of many more) is vital for democracy in Europe. Let’s not be intimidated and stand together and offer our help and support.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeNow more than ever: support democracy defenders! Democracy is under siege. We must stand strong and fight back, locally and globally, using all democratic means possible.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeWir solidarisieren uns mit HateAid: Eintreten für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat ist kein Verbrechen! digitalrechte.de/news/wir-sol...
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- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeI'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
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- Soutien à @disclose.ngo contre cette procedure bâillon.
- 🔴Le géant de l'armement Thales veut faire taire @disclose.ngo Il nous attaque en diffamation après nos révélations sur ses exportations de matériel de guerre vers un fournisseur de l'armée israélienne Une procédure-bâillon pour nous empêcher d'enquêter disclose.ngo/fr/article/p...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeDisney just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, in other words, a billion in the AI slopification of its brand. Disney princesses have also become one of the most common fictional subjects of AI porn on the internet www.404media.co/disney-inves...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeYessss. See, the Commission *can* get its act together, and act effectively and decisively. Which is why it's frustrating when they don't.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeLes Palestiniens ont peur. De l’armée. De la police. Du Shin Bet (le renseignement intérieur). Des colons. Des arrestations. Des interrogatoires. De la prison. Des checkpoints. Des patrouilles. Même de prendre la route entre les différentes villes de Cisjordanie.
- Reposted by Alexandre Alaphilippe✍️ TRIBUNE. Le 23 novembre sur France Culture, le journaliste Frédéric Martel recevait Alexandre Douguine, «l’un des propagateurs les plus actifs de la stratégie d’influence russe», qui a «bénéficié d’un espace de parole sans filtre», dénonce un collectif de spécialistes de la Russie. Lire 👇
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeJe me méfie de la mise en scène "grand homme seul dans un décor grandiose sur tapis rouge" mais Al-Charaa a très bien compris les Russes en 2024: si le Kremlin offre des concessions, ce n'est pas qu'il veut faire un compromis. C'est qu'il est extrêmement mal en point.
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeArticle d’un journaliste du Figaro dont l’identité a été usurpée dans le cadre de la dernière opération informationnelle de Storm-1516. www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...
- Reposted by Alexandre AlaphilippeDon't fall for the manipulative "censorship" framing of EU's fines against X for DSA violations. The EU is trying to enforce their laws. X is breaking them. And the U.S. government is defending big tech, billionaries, & bullshitters rather than protecting users. www.linkedin.com/posts/daphne...
