#mediawatch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mediawatch, aggregated by home.social.
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"Removing content standards such as accuracy, balance and fairness, I think invites a significant political risk. You could end up with a rogue media operator with significant market power that chose to ignore them, with impunity. And I think that's politically dangerous, democratically it's indefensible."
#DrPeterThompson, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=bdb1a4a8-a91f-48a0-ac5e-f81f354a7021
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594762/mediawatch-putting-down-the-watchdog
This is a very complicated issue, and I'm still figuring out what I think.
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Man City fan demotion confirmed as Arsenal title question screamed but not answered
The Sun have demoted Man City Bottle Fan to ‘punter’ despite knowing who he is, with an Arsenal…
#NewsBeep #News #Football #Arsenal #F365Features #football #front-page #HomePage #ManchesterCity #Mediawatch #Popular #Sports #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Strategia di comunicazione
Le RSF hanno utilizzato piattaforme social per trasmettere immagini di vittorie militari, cercando di ritrarsi come una forza moderna e disciplinata, in contrapposizione ai rapporti delle Nazioni Unite che le accusano di atrocità e pulizia etnica.
In sintesi, la strategia degli EAU in Sudan si basa su un sostegno a doppio binario: un forte supporto materiale alle RSF sul campo, accompagnato da una campagna di pubbliche relazioni.
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Le attività degli Emirati Arabi Uniti (EAU) in Sudan, legate alle Rapid Support Forces (RSF - Forze di Supporto Rapido), si sono concentrate su una complessa strategia che unisce un sostegno militare/logistico discreto a operazioni di pubbliche relazioni (PR) e aiuti umanitari, finalizzate a legittimare il proprio ruolo nel conflitto sudanese.
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L'oro del Darfur non è una risorsa per lo sviluppo del Sudan, ma un "motore di guerra". Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti agiscono come il terminale economico di questa catena, trasformando il minerale in valuta e armi che mantengono il Paese in uno stato di perenne conflitto.
Il Blood gold report 2023 ha ricostruito come i profitti auriferi finanzino attività di comunicazione registrate a Dubai e Istanbul.
Per saperne di più https://www.wired.it/article/sudan-guerra-oro-algoritmi-potere-esercito/
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L'oro del Darfur non è una risorsa per lo sviluppo del Sudan, ma un "motore di guerra". Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti agiscono come il terminale economico di questa catena, trasformando il minerale in valuta e armi che mantengono il Paese in uno stato di perenne conflitto.
Il Blood gold report 2023 ha ricostruito come i profitti auriferi finanzino attività di comunicazione registrate a Dubai e Istanbul.
Per saperne di più https://www.wired.it/article/sudan-guerra-oro-algoritmi-potere-esercito/
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L'oro del Darfur non è una risorsa per lo sviluppo del Sudan, ma un "motore di guerra". Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti agiscono come il terminale economico di questa catena, trasformando il minerale in valuta e armi che mantengono il Paese in uno stato di perenne conflitto.
Il Blood gold report 2023 ha ricostruito come i profitti auriferi finanzino attività di comunicazione registrate a Dubai e Istanbul.
Per saperne di più https://www.wired.it/article/sudan-guerra-oro-algoritmi-potere-esercito/
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L'oro del Darfur non è una risorsa per lo sviluppo del Sudan, ma un "motore di guerra". Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti agiscono come il terminale economico di questa catena, trasformando il minerale in valuta e armi che mantengono il Paese in uno stato di perenne conflitto.
Il Blood gold report 2023 ha ricostruito come i profitti auriferi finanzino attività di comunicazione registrate a Dubai e Istanbul.
Per saperne di più https://www.wired.it/article/sudan-guerra-oro-algoritmi-potere-esercito/
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L'oro del Darfur non è una risorsa per lo sviluppo del Sudan, ma un "motore di guerra". Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti agiscono come il terminale economico di questa catena, trasformando il minerale in valuta e armi che mantengono il Paese in uno stato di perenne conflitto.
Il Blood gold report 2023 ha ricostruito come i profitti auriferi finanzino attività di comunicazione registrate a Dubai e Istanbul.
Per saperne di più https://www.wired.it/article/sudan-guerra-oro-algoritmi-potere-esercito/
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"We've got about 30 NZers have come up here with us, at very short notice, from the companies that are going to benefit the most from the exports."
#ToddMcClay, Minister of Trade, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70ee68b9-d637-43c9-a68d-b0ac60b813f2
Oh no, McClay said the quiet part out loud! These "free trade agreements" are for the benefit of *companies*, not ordinary kiwis. He was meant to keep that to himself and spin the usual line about how it benefit us all. Oops!
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Fantastic interview in the #MOLE Training con on MediaWatch on Sunday;
"There is definitely some form of regulation, not just to protect the entities per se, but to protect the ... value that we hold for media in our society ... to not be dependent on centralisation, or one *foreign* outlet to control the content and information within our own society."
Professor #AlexandraAndhov, Director, ALTeR, University of Auckland, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=6af56d26-c505-4373-b00b-d7d099e1a808
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"You only have to add a few adjectives in there and then you're telling people what *you* think ... And then you can put 'analysis' at the top. But in today's world the public wants and is ask for a much clearer distinction between news and opinion."
Dr #GregTreadwell, 2026
Maybe news websites ought to have their opinion sections under subdomains, eg opinion.rnz.co.nz, with a recognizably different masthead and page appearance?
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/439886/ Arsenal given four-word warning by Man City star with Guardiola bombshell #AntoineSemenyo #Arsenal #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #F365Features #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FrontPage #Headlines #HomePage #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #ManchesterCity #Mediawatch #News #TopStories #TopStories #Uncategorized
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"Dr Bryce Edwards is a transparency campaigner, used to run a thing called the Integrity Institute, which had backing to research these issues, now it's called The Democracy Project ..."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=e7df26f7-0add-4051-a4ac-36568ba69994
Really? It's news to me that The Democracy Project is a rebranding of the Integrity Institute. I thought the latter was a newer initiative. Can anyone confirm?
#MediaWatch #IntegrityInstitute #DemocracyProject #RNZ #podcasts
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Le accuse nei confronti di Meta, il colosso di Mark Zuckerberg, riguardanti presunte interferenze nelle elezioni politiche italiane del 2022 e nelle successive elezioni regionali, hanno sollevato gravi preoccupazioni.
Un’inchiesta condotta dalla trasmissione Rai Report, anticipata dal Fatto Quotidiano, ha rilevato come Meta avrebbe raccolto e analizzato i dati di oltre 6,5 milioni di utenti italiani.
https://politicamag.it/report-accusa-meta-di-interferenze-nelle-elezioni-del-2022/
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The Sun-Herald, complaining that its reporters had to commit journalism. #MediaWatch #SundayPapers
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"Sean Plunket ... also had NZ First leader Winston Peters on, and he said the move to regulate online content was 'bordering on fascist', and called for the [Broadcasting Standards Authority] agency to be abolished."
#PhilVine, RNZ Senior Podcast Producer, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=09e9f485-f47e-492a-9e15-9e43e38ef641
My knee-jerk reaction is people often know their neighbours. So given Dogwhistle Peters has been bordering on fascism for years, he'd know
But seriously ...
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Non era un drone russo
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Leggete con attenzione, questa è la verifica odierna su Perplexity. Viene smentita la notizia del drone russo in Estonia.
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"When ad spend on media peaked 20 years ago, advertising accounted for 1.25% of our entire GDP. But now, in this increasingly digital days, it's around 0.75%."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
So what does this tell us? What all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the big DataFarms hoovering up most of the remaining ad spend obscures or avoid admitting;
Advertising is a dying industry. Has been since the net went mainstream.
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Il presidente della Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statunitense, Brendan Carr, ha lanciato una minaccia: "Perderanno la licenza le emittenti che distorcono le notizie".
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*But* ... the one thing Hipkins ought *not* to lose his leadership role over is stories about his personal life. His private business.
None of us are saints, especially in the eyes of puritan ultra-conservatives and crypto-conservative identi-Moonies. Every one of us has skeletons in the closet that scurrilous muckrakers could dig up as a basis to exclude us from political office.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=358d4088-5010-4c4c-91ba-ecd7538a2ebd
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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #privacy #MuckRaking #NZPolitics #ChrisHipkins
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HG warns Western leaders are manufacturing consent for a war on Iran using the same Iraq playbook — media repetition, unverified claims and elite interests. Read: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/03/23/iran-iraq/ 📰⚠️ #Iran #MediaWatch #NoMoreWars
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Cecilia Sala su Youtube racconta di persone che in Iran durante i bombardamenti sarebbero salite sull'ultimo piano dei palazzi per "festeggiare e ridere insieme ai vicini di casa" per la "bomba caduta sull'ufficio della guida suprema che detestavano". Abbiamo fatto delle verifiche con Perplexity e sorge qualche dubbio.
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Cannabis Study Sparks Fear Among the Uninformed
Filed Under: Panic Science
Every few years, the cycle repeats itself. A new cannabis study appears, a few statistics are pulled from the results, and within hours, headlines begin warning that marijuana is fueling a mental health crisis.
The latest panic comes from researchers at McMaster University, whose analysis was published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Media coverage quickly framed the research as evidence that cannabis use is driving anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts across Canada.
That is not what the study actually proves.
The researchers did not run a clinical experiment. They did not administer cannabis to participants or monitor psychological changes over time. Instead, they analyzed existing national survey data collected between 2012 and 2022 from the Canadian Community Health Survey, a large population dataset maintained by Statistics Canada.
The dataset included roughly 35,000 respondents. Participants answered questions about cannabis use and about their mental health. Researchers then compared those answers to identify statistical patterns across the population.
What they found was an association.
Individuals who reported cannabis use were more likely to report symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicidal thinking. Heavy users, defined in the paper as individuals using cannabis at least twice per week, appeared more likely to report psychological distress than people who reported never using cannabis.
But association is not causation.
The survey does not show that cannabis caused mental health problems. It only shows that people who use cannabis also report those problems at higher rates. The direction of that relationship remains unknown.
People experiencing anxiety or depression may turn to cannabis as a coping mechanism. Individuals already struggling with mental health issues may be more likely to experiment with substances. Socioeconomic stress, trauma, and other factors can influence both substance use and psychological well-being.
Survey data cannot untangle those relationships.
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Self-reported survey data is valuable for spotting trends across large populations, but it cannot establish biological cause and effect.
That distinction often disappears once the findings leave the academic journal and enter the news cycle.
Headlines compress nuance into alarm. A statistical relationship becomes proof of danger. Words like “linked” or “associated” quietly disappear and are replaced by stronger claims that the research never made.
This pattern has followed cannabis research for decades.
Studies showing correlations between cannabis use and mental health outcomes frequently receive widespread attention. The more cautious conclusions written in the paper itself rarely make it into the headline.
None of this means cannabis is harmless. Like alcohol, prescription medication, or any psychoactive substance, it can affect individuals differently depending on genetics, mental health history, age, and frequency of use.
But good science requires precision.
The McMaster analysis examined survey responses.
It identified statistical relationships.
It did not demonstrate that cannabis use causes mental illness.
Those distinctions matter, especially when research findings are used to shape public policy, influence public perception, and guide medical conversations.
Without that context, studies designed to explore complex social patterns can easily become fuel for the next wave of cannabis panic.
And the cycle starts again.
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Just caught up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740
As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this pointed out, move-on orders don't just give the Police the power to arbitrarily evict people from public space, even if they're doing nothing except looking excessively poor. Which is bad enough.
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Just caught up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740
As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this pointed out, move-on orders don't just give the Police the power to arbitrarily evict people from public space, even if they're doing nothing except looking excessively poor. Which is bad enough.
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Just caught up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740
As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this pointed out, move-on orders don't just give the Police the power to arbitrarily evict people from public space, even if they're doing nothing except looking excessively poor. Which is bad enough.
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Just caught up with last Sunday's edition of MediaWatch, which surfaced some pretty disgraceful comments about our homeless whānau, in defence of "move-on orders";
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=12ce8006-34c4-490e-b8be-1defeb93f740
As @norightturnnz's excellent piece on this pointed out, move-on orders don't just give the Police the power to arbitrarily evict people from public space, even if they're doing nothing except looking excessively poor. Which is bad enough.
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How the BBC chose to report on the US and Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran:
1. It used “dead” instead of “killed,” softening the violence and removing agency.
2. It relied on passive construction, carefully avoiding naming the perpetrators — the United States and Israel.
3. It added “Iran says,” subtly framing the massacre itself as an allegation rather than an established event.#iran #israel #bbc #news #journalism #Mediawatch #us #trump #genocide #islam
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Just catching up with the MediaWatch I missed while at Splore. In last Sunday's episode, they covered disgraceful anti-immigrant soapboxing in the media;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=4e4a93bf-fe10-466a-8641-d40256829d06
Let's be clear; the comments by Winston First MPs Dogwhistle Peters and Shame Jones are the symptom, not the disease. These scumbags are not ideological purists, they are opportunists. If they are saying it, it's because they think there's votes in it. *That's* the problem we need to solve.
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A quattro anni dall’invasione dell’Ucraina il bilancio del presidente russo Vladimir Putin è un “fallimento clamoroso e umiliante”. Lo ha dichiarato oggi in un’intervista il ministro degli esteri francese Noel Barrot, rimarcando “il coraggio straordinario” dell’esercito ucraino che ha riconquistato 300 chilometri quadrati di territorio. “L’esercito ucraino ha appena liberato 300 chilometri quadrati con uno slancio e un coraggio straordinari".
SkyTG24
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Braccio di ferro tra Meta e Whatsapp: la compagnia ha denunciato un blocco di Whatsapp da parte di Mosca. Il portavoce presidenziale Peskov ha confermato l’intervento intimando a Meta di “adeguarsi alle leggi russe”.
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/02/12/diretta/guerra_ucraina_russia_news_oggi-425152747/
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Linton Besser’s necessarily brutal spotlight tonight on Australia’s disgustingly racist mainstream media and its coverage of the #invasionday terrorist attack is a masterclass. #mediawatch
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Election year has only just begun, but Heather du Plessis-Allan and Barry Soper are already ripping into the Greens on air;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=9330bb2d-f301-4237-90b6-1a67e31ce87b
Presumably in the hopes this will shift "swing voters" from Labour to National. But I wonder if this kind of strategic denigration could backfire on them Streisand Effect style.
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Qualcuno la informi meglio! La Russia non sta perdendo terreno sul campo di battaglia. Lo abbiamo documentato qui con ore e ore di analisi militare.
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Kaja Kallas (Ue): "Mosca non è invincibile. Sul campo di battaglia, il suo esercito sta perdendo terreno. In patria, la sua economia sta crollando".
Rainews
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Thank you Linton Besser for calling #ICE “Masked Paramilitary” and not naming the agency. #MediaWatch
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La matematica della guerra in Ucraina: «Dobbiamo uccidere 50.000 soldati russi al mese» | Corriere.it
A Kiev c'è ancora un ministro che è convinto di poter vincere la guerra. Si chiama Fedorov, ed è il neo ministro della Difesa. E il Corriere della Sera amplifica il suo messaggio ottimistico.
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
#HackerNews #OfcomFiles #Ofcom #Rides #Again #DigitalRegulation #TechNews #MediaWatch
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The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
#HackerNews #OfcomFiles #Ofcom #Rides #Again #DigitalRegulation #TechNews #MediaWatch
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The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
#HackerNews #OfcomFiles #Ofcom #Rides #Again #DigitalRegulation #TechNews #MediaWatch
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The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
#HackerNews #OfcomFiles #Ofcom #Rides #Again #DigitalRegulation #TechNews #MediaWatch
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The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
#HackerNews #OfcomFiles #Ofcom #Rides #Again #DigitalRegulation #TechNews #MediaWatch
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Aerei militari #Usa e #Nato viaggiano con i #transponder spenti?
ChatGPT: “È una prassi comune soprattutto per:
- voli di ricognizione elettronica (es. #RC135, P-8 Poseidon, droni Global Hawk);
- missioni con bombardieri strategici (#B52, #B1, #B2);
- caccia in missione di intercettazione o pattugliamento vicino a confini “caldi”.
#analisimilitare #mediawatch