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Gabriele Cosentino

@cosenote.bsky.social
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Brussels-based writer and researcher. Focus on disinformation/post-truth/geopolitics. Bylines: New Lines Magazine, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, The Conversation. Writings: www.gabrielecosentino.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 27/03/2026
In this week's roundup: Iran's slopaganda, WebinarTV, and RIP Sora.
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Oops: Insurance Executive Pages Not Found
In this week's roundup: Iran's slopaganda, WebinarTV, and RIP Sora.
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Armida van Rij @armida.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Last year, I was interviewed for a @frontlinepbs.bsky.social documentary about Germany's far right, with a nod to Russia and the US. The documentary came out last month and makes for deeply uncomfortable viewing. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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The Rise of Germany's New Right | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25/09/2025
White House photo op for the president's granddaughter's new $130 sweatshirt line
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My article on the controversial impact of TikTok in Egypt - originally appeared on @theconversation.com - was republished by The Globe and Atlas. theglobeandatlas.com/tiktok-egypt...
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TikTok in Egypt: where rich and poor meet and the state watches everything - The Globe and Atlas
TikTok has become immensely popular in Egypt. Authorities have been cracking down on users.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Tried to get at this in my column last night but the wild thing about the Epstein story is that it seems to interest everyone & answers to nobody, even Trump. It is an unstable compound being used by political actors to get attention or score political points but it can easily blow up in their faces
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Nobody (Not Even Trump) Can Control the Epstein Story
Welcome to the era of late-stage conspiracism.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Amusing ourselves to death": in the 1980s, media scholar Neil Postman offered a prescient vision for a future in which entertainment would eat up politics, and where we would die by a thousands laughs.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My contribution to The Conversation: "TikTok in Egypt: where rich and poor meet – and the state watches everything". TikTok’s ability to expose divisions in Egyptian society and connect citizens across demographic cleavages has unsettled the authorities. theconversation.com/tiktok-in-eg...
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TikTok in Egypt: where rich and poor meet – and the state watches everything
TikTok reveals both the liberating and the repressive effects of social media use in Egypt.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV today called on global leaders to stop waging wars during his first major speech to the faithful after his election as the Catholic Church’s new leader.
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Pope Leo XIV’s first message to world leaders: End all wars
The new pope called for a “just, authentic and long-lasting” peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My contribution to The Conversation: "TikTok in Egypt: where rich and poor meet – and the state watches everything". TikTok’s ability to expose divisions in Egyptian society and connect citizens across demographic cleavages has unsettled the authorities. theconversation.com/tiktok-in-eg...
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TikTok in Egypt: where rich and poor meet – and the state watches everything
TikTok reveals both the liberating and the repressive effects of social media use in Egypt.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"The comeback of Donald Trump is the pinnacle of the career of a risk taker with little concern for established norms. But his willingness to bend reality to suit his vision might push global politics to the breaking point." My piece for The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: shorturl.at/xMt0P
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Donald Trump and the Art of Bending Reality
The gravity-defying political comeback of Donald Trump is the pinnacle of the chaotic career of an extreme risk taker with little concern for established norms. But his willingness to upend rules and ...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today, thousands of openly-transgender service members will put on their uniform and do what needs to be done because they honor their oath to our country, while Pete Hegseth denigrates their service and violates his oath by brazenly sharing classified intel in text groups. Just a reminder.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Disinformation is how autocracies and weak democracies censor the truth: it gets drowned out by a tide of rumours, lies and fabrications.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I wonder why
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/02/2025
The Ukrainian president made his comments as Vladimir Putin praised the US-Russian rapprochement and argued that European leaders had excluded themselves from the talks. www.ft.com/content/dc98...
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"The comeback of Donald Trump is the pinnacle of the career of a risk taker with little concern for established norms. But his willingness to bend reality to suit his vision might push global politics to the breaking point." My piece for The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: shorturl.at/xMt0P
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Donald Trump and the Art of Bending Reality
The gravity-defying political comeback of Donald Trump is the pinnacle of the chaotic career of an extreme risk taker with little concern for established norms. But his willingness to upend rules and ...
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How democracies gradually turn into tyrannies, without people realising, from four witnesses who saw that happen in their own countries. Eye-opening cautionary tales for the US, and for the rest of the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/01/2025
The cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg www.ft.com/content/682ca921-ccfd-44…
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The cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg
Changes to the fact-checking regime at Meta make it look like he’s caving in to Trump
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trolligarch @elonmusk is an obscenely wealthy fascist, about time that the @EU_Commission takes seriously the huge threat he poses to European democracies. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
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Pressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk’s interference
European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Elon Musk true colors in full display, once more
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 27/12/2024
Elon Musk’s tech bros have clashed with the Maga rank and file over immigration for Silicon Valley workers, exposing the fragile alliance forged to put Donald Trump in the White House ⬇️
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Maga’s uncivil war: Musk and Ramaswamy under fire in ‘culture war’
Vivek Ramaswamy, who will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, blamed American ‘culture of mediocrity’ for a lack of talented specialist workers
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Kaamil Ahmed @kaamilahmed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
There's nothing to return to in Jabaliya refugee camp, every element of human life destroyed. Palestinians told us about whole blocks being cleared off the map in the past two months and what they describe is so apparent when you look at the aerial imagery. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Everything is gone’: how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp
A chronicle of Jabaliya’s destruction, using eyewitness accounts, satellite imagery and video footage
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 17/12/2024
A high-ranking Russian general has been killed in an explosion in Moscow less than 24 hours after Ukraine accused him of ordering the use of chemical weapons against its forces
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Russian general killed by bomb in scooter outside his Moscow home
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov died outside his home hours after he was charged by Ukraine with using banned chemical weapons
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“To Kill a Novelist” is my first contribution for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. In the essay I revisit the controversy around the 1959 novel "Children of the Alley" by Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. A short 🧵: newlinesmag.com/essays/what-...
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What the Stabbing of a Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Tells Us About Power in Egypt
While the attempted assassination of Naguib Mahfouz 30 years ago is usually seen as a story of Islamist extremism, the original controversy surrounding his work was rooted more in politics than religi...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge. www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...
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True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Bashar al-Assad’s fall recalled scenes across the region from the start of the Arab spring almost 14 years ago. In fact, it no longer felt like history." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Things could go very wrong in Syria – they could also go very right. Let’s gift its people optimism | Nesrine Malik
With Assad gone, it’s important not to impose a negative script on what comes next. Syrians deserve support and hope, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"The fall of a brutal regime that is aligned to other brutal regimes is a good thing.”
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Dominik Presl @dompresl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One thing that lacks attention: all of this is only possible because Romanian president declassified findings of their intelligence agencies and did so at an unprecedented scope and pace. Declassification and transparency seem like one of the most effective ways of fighting a foreign influence.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I hope wherever Assad emerges, it eventually leads to him appearing in court for the crimes he's responsible for. France already has an arrest warrant out for him over the August 21st 2013 sarin attacks, partly based on evidence I submitted.
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“We shall see the end of tyranny and the dawn of miracles.” (Naguib Mahfouz)
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Overjoyed by the fall of the most brutal dictator of the 21t century, Bashar Al Assad. I am in awe of the faith and strength of the Syrian people, who deserve a future of dignity and peace after decades of oppression, and 14 years of civil war. #Syria is free at last.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
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Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media
In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.
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Alex Rowell @alexjrowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
While the stabbing of Naguib Mahfouz is often seen as nothing more than a story of Islamist extremism, the original controversy around his work was also an attempt by Nasser to deflect political criticism, writes @cosenote.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/essays/what-...
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What the Stabbing of a Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Tells Us About Power in Egypt
While the attempted assassination of Naguib Mahfouz 30 years ago is usually seen as a story of Islamist extremism, the original controversy surrounding his work was rooted more in politics than religi...
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Gabriele Cosentino @cosenote.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The attempted assassination of Naguib Mahfouz 30 years ago is usually seen as a story of Islamist extremism, yet the original controversy surrounding his work was rooted more in politics than religion. My latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/what-...
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What the Stabbing of a Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Tells Us About Power in Egypt
While the attempted assassination of Naguib Mahfouz 30 years ago is usually seen as a story of Islamist extremism, the original controversy surrounding his work was rooted more in politics than religi...
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