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Stephen Hutchings, Alexandr Voronovici, Vera Tolz, Neil Sadler, Maxim Alyukov, Sofia Tipaldou – Kremlin Proxies and the Post-RT Western Media Landscape: An EU Elections Case Study
This report assesses the extent, nature, purpose and efficacy of online Russianstate-sponsored efforts to promote Russia’s strategic narratives and exercise politicalinfluence in Europe Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, […]
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Jonathan Cook – Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza
Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’ Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and […]
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Chris Hedges – Israel’s War on Journalism
Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign […]
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The Electronic Intifada: Asa Winstanley – How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
It is astonishing how many people do not know about this – but then considering the total absence of this narrative from today’s blanket legacy media coverage Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate […]
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Caitlin Johnstone – The Western Media Helped Create These Horrors In The Middle East
The Goebellists of Western mainstream media have inundated us with a tsunami of lies, prevarications, and propaganda. This is the death of democracy. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political […]
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Brian Mier – Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started – and lost – a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary
Elon Musk’s battle with the Brazilian judiciary appears to have less to do with free speech than it does corporate power. Brian Mier is a native Chicagoan who has lived in Brazil for 25 years. […]
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Christian Christensen – Elon Musk Doesn’t Know He’s on the Wrong Side of George Orwell
Musk’s purchase of Twitter has achieved its ambition: he’s converted his economic power into political power. Christian Christensen is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Elon […]
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Jonathan Cook – First, Elon Musk made us pay for ‘free speech’. Now he decides who’s allowed it
The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there […]
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Beeban Kidron – AI companies have to become democratically accountable
If states are serious about regulating AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole, they must undercut the lobbying efforts of the private sector Baroness Beeban Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in […]