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Izabella Kaminska is the editor of FT Alphaville. She joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP’s internal magazine. She has also worked as a reporter on English language business papers in Poland and Azerbaijan and was a Reuters graduate trainee in 2004.
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  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
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  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
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    How trolltrace became a real thing

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  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
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    Bots on reddit; Cheap solar; Settlement fails.

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
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    When crypto exchanges decentralise

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  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
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  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
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  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
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    A new Covid theory, Facebook’s Russian op takedown, the SPAC fad.

  • Monday, 31 August, 2020
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    QAnon lures adherents by acting like a game

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  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
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  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
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    Cognitive hacking as the new disinformation frontier

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  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
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    We cannot rely on a digital A-Team to fight deepfakes

    Governments must introduce measures to better protect vulnerable citizens online

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  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
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  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
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    Xi’s panopticon; Neil Ferguson vindicated; SPACs as IPOS.

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