Inside the Downing Street spin room https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/inside-the-downing-street-spin-room/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #WestminsterInsider #Communications #Politics #Media

Hmmm... the C-Lion1 fibre optic cable that connects Helsinki in Finland & Rostock in Germany has been cut.... with suspicions falling (immediately) on Russia... The night before a similar link between Sweden & Lithuania was also cut.

So on one hand this looks like a programme of communicative disruption... but one might wonder whether its a sign of the start of something else (my old IR training leads me to pose the Q. at least).

#internet #communications #security

h/t FT

Language Processing, Machine Learning
The Data Behind Your Doom Scroll: How Negative News Takes Over Your Feed
Analyzing nearly 30 million posts, Stanford scholars reveal how emotional, negative content fuels the viral spread of news on social media. Now, what to do about it? #AI #data #psychology #media #news #communications

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/data-behind-your-doom-scroll-how-negative-news-takes-over-your-feed

[thread] Steven Cheung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)

* Trump 2024 campaign spokesman
* prev. worked Trump 2016, 2020 campaigns
* communications dir. MAGA Inc. superPAC
* Nov 2024 appointed White House Communications Director, Trump2 administration
* Dana White connection: former director communications, public affairs at UFC

#StevenCheung #WHcommunications #WhiteHouse #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#DanaWhite #Trumpism #UFC
#PublicRelations #media #communications #disinformation

🐗 Study finds 'elite' online critics maintain influence even after losing status

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-elite-online-critics-status.html

#media #socialmedia #online #communications #status