Marc Owen Jones 

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Associate Prof @HBKU | Author: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Political Repression in Bahrain | NR Sen Fellow
Middle East Council of Global Affairs & DAWN

Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/marcowenjones

Marc Owen Jones Feb 22, 2023
I did an analysis of Tweets about the 15 minute city conspiracy. You can read it here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1628105064890998785.html #15minutecities #15minutecity #disinformation
Thread by @marcowenjones on Thread Reader App

@marcowenjones: 1/ Analysis of over around 120,000 thousand tweets on the hashtag #15minutecities and '15 minute cities' highlights clear polarisation on the topic with little 'mixing'. As others have pointed out, a...…

Marc Owen Jones Feb 3, 2023
This is why you can't trust AI. I asked it to draw Elon Musk being taken to hell by an army of cat ghosts but now he appears to have become their leader and god. #AI
Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
I asked AI to draw images of Elon Musk being carried to hell by an army of cat ghosts. Now I want to turn them into t-shirts, or perhaps a nice quilt. #TwitterAPI #AI
Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
The late 1990s, everyone was listening to the Offspring, Blink 182 and a smattering of Alanis. Oh yeah, and watching Friends - which explains why me and my best friend looked like Ross and Chandler. #ThrowBackThursday
Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
On Mastodon being Twitter verified is free. You can keep that $8 for donuts.
Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
Mastodon is basically people complaining about Twitter while Twitter is basically people talking about going over to Mastodon. Meta... #TwitterAPI
Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
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It's Tuesday not Friday but here are some good follows if you care about #media #journalism #socialmedia #mediafreedom #transparency #disinformation #digital #commodon #communication
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Marc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023

Check out this episode of the IDS Between the Lines #podcast 🎙️ . Tony Roberts interviews
@marcowenjones
, author of the book: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.

Listen at: 📻 https://ids.ac.uk/events/podcast-s05-ep1-digital-authoritarianism-in-the-middle-east/

#Digital #GlobalDev

Podcast S05 Ep1: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East - Institute of Development Studies

In this podcast, Tony Roberts interviews Marc Jones author of the book: ­­Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.

Institute of Development Studies
Show threadMarc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
3/ Twitter's immune system was never great, but it is being thoroughly compromised by Musk. The tacit public-private partnership that allowed researchers API access was a small contribution to innoculation against information warfare. #twitterapi
Show threadMarc Owen Jones Feb 2, 2023
2/ Musk is completely stripping Twitter of the resources required to tackle manipulation. The huge loss of human capital, the commodified verification system, the edgelordism, the drive for users to appease advertisers - all are creating a febrile atmosphere for info manipulation