@sohandsouza.info
🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
@joemenn.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.infoNo, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
@sohandsouza.infoAs an MBA myself, this is #relatable.
@sohandsouza.info… and not (being kidnapped) too much? OR … and not being (kidnapped too much)? 😉
@sohandsouza.infoAI Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Sales clerk: Um, that's Gap. I worked at one of their stores.
@wsj.comReposted by @sohandsouza.infoJohn Urschel gave up his career with the Baltimore Ravens to study math at MIT. He just published a paper proving a decades-old mathematical conjecture regarding Gaussian elimination. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4yDQZRp
@sohandsouza.infoThe founder is an Arab immigrant from Lebanon. He did marry an Irish-born woman, but the menu looks like 'grammable novel takes on bagels, and not an attempt at "fusion" as such.
@sohandsouza.infoIt's a culinary schmear campaign, I tell ya!
@romanad.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.info
@katestarbird.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.infoThis story is both frustrating and heart-breaking: Nick Shirley, an online influencer whose misleading videos about "daycare fraud" motivated the federal invasion of Minneapolis, turned his camera onto a Seattle restaurant, framing a cashier mistake as "fraud": www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
@sohandsouza.info"For what crime? Eating a cheesecake?! A succulent American cheesecake?!!"
@sohandsouza.info@sohandsouza.infoSo desperate to not get totally squished in the midterms, they're openly courting the radiation nutters
@sohandsouza.infoWhat the actual fsck? 🤨
@monkemma.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.info🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
@cathleen.eurosky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.infoIt’s shocking to hear that @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, the governments of Canada & Lithuania withdrew their #Disinfo2026 sponsorship on such short notice that the banners couldn’t be replaced.
And: I love how the organizers made sure everyone knew that intimidation was not going to go unnoticed. #FIMI
@petergeoghegan.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.info🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
@eliothiggins.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.infoCredit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
@sohandsouza.infoNo one selling or buying the "censorship-industrial complex" grift gets to accuse anyone of "jawboning" or such after this.
@eliothiggins.bsky.socialReposted by @sohandsouza.infoToday in Russian Disinformation/AI Cringe, Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign is now using fake ChatGPT screenshots to "verify" the fake news clips it's distributing on X and TikTok.
@disinfo.euReposted by @sohandsouza.infoWhat a first day at #Disinfo2026! 🤯
A big thank you to all our speakers and participants for sharing their insights. The formal programme may be over, but the fun continues this evening with a film screening, a walking tour, and a social event 🎬🚶🥂
See you tomorrow for 𝗗𝗮𝘆 2️⃣ 💡🤝
