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Tom Phillips retweeted
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 ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_24…
Tom Phillips retweeted
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 ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_24…
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
Tom Phillips retweeted
you can tell quite how long I banged on about this from the number of edits required @flashboy
Wait, the illuminati isn't Beyoncé?!
@JonnElledge breaks down the conspiracy to @msmirandasawyer and @GrainneMaguire
Full episode: link.chtbl.com/PC231025Banke…
#illuminati #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #bookgroup #deepstate #JFK #moonlandings #hoax #faked #funny #comedy #news
Tom Phillips retweeted
Interesting article thinking through the implications of deep fakes on elections:
politicshome.com/thehouse/ar…
Tom Phillips retweeted
🗞️ 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)
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!
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...)
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?
oooh, where's that from? earliest examples of that list I've seen are normally dated to the late nineties in the US
think I'm going to be on @LBC just after 11 talking about conspiracy theories, if anybody wants to hear me talking about conspiracy theories
