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This is one of the most entertaining pod conversations I’ve had in ages, as @flashboy walks me through the history of politicians believing batshit things. Listen.
Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories?
In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️https://t.co/M25zU5l2EX
apropos of nothing, got a bunch of invite codes for the 🟦sky place, it's quite nice right now. DM if we kind of vaguely know each other here and you want a lil lifeboat
The Misinfo Election: Will it be a fake news nightmare? @flashboy via @politicshome, with comment by me for @FullFact - with a GenAI-infected election campaign ahead I call on politicians to be useful: get your house in order! #GE24 https://t.co/KZvJtbzVrM
🗞️ NEW @TheHouseMag has dropped in Parliament today
🤖 @elliottengage's first proper edition as our new editor is full of interesting features on AI – from fake news at the GE (@flashboy) to NHS data (@sophiealichurch) to not-a-tech-bro AI minister Viscount Camrose (@TaliFraser)
@samwetherell I am a huge fan of pre-internet (and indeed pre-boomer) memes, especially the ones that have successfully transitioned online. They are so weirdly resilient!
@samwetherell But early 80s is a lot earlier than any other examples I know of. (Makes sense though - the UK versions on FB today still say 635 MPs, which was last the case in the 1979 election...)
@samwetherell Ah, shame. It's a folklist that's being going round for decades - the numbers usually stay the same even as it gets applied to different places (US Congress, Canada, India,etc) The language - "bad cheques" - suggests a US origin, I think?