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Media/journalism (mostly African)| Genocide | Mass Atrocity | Knowledge production

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/03/2025
I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one. This reserve is the Big Scam(tm). I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are
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Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The silencing of victims is sadly a global phenomenon: #media #oscars #rapeculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Silencing of Rape Victims in Readers’ Comments on Serbian News Websites - Jasmina P. Đorđević, 2025
Based on Framing Theory and Sociocognitive Discourse Studies, the study analyzes 1,010 comments following 15 news articles on four Serbian news websites about a...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.
Letter from Pam Bondi to Kash Patel that demands to know why she didn’t receive Epstein files and demanding an investigation.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/02/2025
lol this take is DRENCHED in privilege. Marginalized people cannot afford to be apolitical because our very identity IS POLITICAL. Activism isn't some cute hobby folks are engaging in. People are advocating for their SURVIVAL. bsky.app/profile/stev...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Fantastic read.A compelling behind the scenes look of realities that scholars based in Africa face when collaborating w colleagues based in the Global North. Also offers advice on building more ethical collaborations. For everyone in global collaborative research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and discourse around the inequalities which structure North–South academic collaboration. The purpose of this discussion is to look at the o...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)
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Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe
Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.
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Mark Leon Goldberg @markleongoldberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I see that bald headed man has decided to finally stop pretending that he cares about the newspaper. This was always going to happen once orange man won the election. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“And therefore, we will _____.”
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 26/02/2025
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a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo !
Alt: Man in a crowd throwing his hat while yelling, "boo this man! Boo!".
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
They allowed for this to happen the moment they kept quiet about @apnews.com being denied entry.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 24/02/2025
The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I was pretty skeptical of Amazon taking control of the Bond franchise, but if this is the direction it's going, I'm pro.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I just wish that we actually cared about antisemitism in this country. But instead yall had congressional hearings vilifying students and faculty (of all races & ethnicities) protesting genocide and silence with actual sieg heiling by white suprmacists.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
WHOA
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
beep boop
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
People who were willing to risk their job security and literally everything tied to being able to live, just to go vote ? And yall expect them to do more after failing them? Yeah nah
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... American tech companies are about to run even more wild. This is going to be dreadful…
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Defending American Companies and Innovators From Overseas Extortion and Unfair Fines and Penalties
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY      THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE      THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
www.thedp.com/article/2025... wow
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Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts
Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
ⓘ This account will make posts like "do i have to listen to A-pop through J-pop to appreciate K-pop" and continue to evade suspension
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Fact-Checking in Africa: Combating disinformation amid political strife and ethnic conflict - Nieman Reports
Threats and harassment abound, but those on the frontlines see progress
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Fact-Checking in Africa: Combating disinformation amid political strife and ethnic conflict - Nieman Reports url:https://niemanreports.org/fact-checking-africa-disinformation-ethnic-politics-conflict/
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 21/02/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 191 of The Continent The Sudanese army is closing in on the Republican Palace in Khartoum – but the war is far from over. Get your copy, for free, here: bit.ly/TC191
Issue 191 of The Continent (22 February 2025) shows a Sudanese army soldier scanning the frontline with binoculars in Khartoum North, through a broken window, on November 3, 2024. Beneath the photo are the words: "Sudan's distant peace" and the photo credit: Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP

#Sudan #Africa #AfricanJournalism #TheContinent
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Martin Tsai @martintsai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
what more proof do you need?
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I've said for years that anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy should be considered as misinformation / disinformation. To study the history of race and journalism is to see that White supremacy was an effective disinformation campaign. And through that, we got Jim Crow, a fascist system.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/02/2025
This is interesting because the question is less what they will do as *legislators* and more what they will do as *politicians*. AOC is a member of the House minority, but she’s doing a lot of politics about all of this anyway.
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is wild
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Well then…
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jswahutu @jswahutu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... such a badly written column. Its just idiotic nonsense masquerading as intellectual musings.
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Can a Woke Harvard Still Be the Ivory Tower? | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
What is new to our time is the hostility of woke to normality and the ambition to transform it. No longer will students graduate and hit “reality” in the form of hostile normality. No more apologies f...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025
So few people writing for mainstream publications are fit to diagnose or even describe our current status and they prove it by even now consistently using the right’s framing in their reporting.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It's not that they don't understand how the government is constitutionally structured, it's that they're actively opposed to it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.
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