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Why I stopped loving Twitter

Hey all, this is Alice Stollmeyer, from Defend Democracy. I used to love Twitter. No more. Coming from me, that may surprise you. Arriving in Brussels in 2012, I started live-tweeting EU policy events. I loved sharing about my professional passions (at the time climate and energy), about EU politics and about geopolitical and digital…

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What may have led to founding @DefendDemocracy: Alice @StollmeyerEU’s early tweets about Russia, propaganda and disinformation (2012-2016)

Being interviewed for the Counter Intelligence Podcast (3 June 2019), I decided to look back on my earliest tweets (2012-2016) to see if they might give some background to why I founded Defend Democracy. I surprised even myself by what I found… Some of my earliest tweets about Russian trolls, propaganda and disinformation 24 July…

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Digital political advocacy: my journey from the EU to the US to Transatlantic

Twitter can truly connect people. Proof: I am sharing what I told a Brussels’ digital influencer event at the request of my American Twitter friends. Ranked 18th in the league of digital EU influencers, I was asked to prepare a personal presentation in the form of five tweets. As a well-known Brussels’ bubble tweeter (most…

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Winter is here. On Paris and politics after Trump.

This is not the type of blog I usually write. But today is different. Winter is here. How does Twitter react to Donald Trump winning the US election 2016? Have a look at my personal impression of Twitter reactions. It may give you some hope – and perhaps even a brief smile. Will the outcome…

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