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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The government may force online platforms to carry public service media like the BBC. But would it work? I spoke to @charliebeckett.bsky.social, @martinjemoore.bsky.social and @jim.londoncentric.media, who warns: 'Even a 3-4 min TV package is too long' www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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'Platforms Will Push Back': Forcing Public Service Media Onto The Online World
In making the case for trustworthy news in the digital age, the government may force online platforms to carry public service media. Ros Taylor exp...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A few immediate thoughts on Andy Burnham’s UN announcement about a new UK National Centre for Information Defence (1/6) www.gov.uk/government/s... #infodefence:
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PM speech at UNGA: 22 September 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly last night.
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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🗞️ Hollowed out? 🗞️ Britain’s local newspapers are at risk of transforming into "zombie" titles that fail to perform their key democratic functions. New research co-authored by @martinjemoore.bsky.social tracks the changing shape of local media. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/local-n...
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Newspapers at risk of becoming 'zombie' titles as local content disappears | King's College London
Britain’s local newspapers are at risk of transforming into "zombie" titles that lack original, community-focused reporting and fail to perform their key democratic functions, new research has conclud...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'The hollowing out of local newspapers' research paper by Simona Bisiani, Agnes Gulyas, Bahareh Heravi & me just published in Journalism (open access) #SageJournals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 is a highly readable book, rich in anecdotes, thumbnail profiles of key figures, and original research. It makes a compelling case for the danger of artificial truths', review of our book - Dictating Reality - at Lawfare www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
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How Authoritarians Control the News
A review of Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, “Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News” (Columbia University Press 2025).
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📰 The Possible Futures of Journalism with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social, @martinjemoore.bsky.social and Dr David Young: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Yay! I'm over the moon that Dictating Reality has been shortlisted for the The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2026, sponsored by SAGE, alongside five other tremendous books. Thank you!
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s great to be getting recommended in Germany. Herrlich! #DictatingReality
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Dictating Reality helps 'make sense of a fast-changing geopolitical environment where control of an information ecosystem is increasingly seen as the sine qua non for national security' - review of me & Tom's new book in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Orban's historic defeat ought to force us to reflect on (amongst other things) the relationship between media and politics. Fidesz' control of the media was structural and systemic - everything from local papers to radio news to billboard advertizing. It still didn't work. #dictatingreality
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Trump’s chaotic and coercive foreign policy has benefited Beijing because it so perfectly reinforces [the] CCP narrative" The authors of DICTATING REALITY, Thomas Colley and @martinjemoore.bsky.social explain how Trump's unpredictability benefits China bit.ly/4u7w4nW @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Trump Plays Directly into China’s Version of Reality Thomas Colley and Martin Moore - Columbia University Press Blog
Thomas Colley and Martin Moore discuss how Trump’s volatility strengthens China’s global propaganda narrative and CCP-led global order.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Martin Moore and ThomasColley discuss their extraordinary new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS with @jonlemire.bsky.social youtu.be/fOa7Y1e7NQo?... @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"This is an elegant, expert, disciplined, and important book about the most urgent contemporary problem: the decay and disorder of information." Jean Seaton on DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and Thomas Colley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today! Save 50%-70% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in journalism studies, including THE TECH-MEDIA HYBRID, by Qun Wang and DICTATING REALITY, by @martinjemoore.bsky.social and ThomasColley! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Podcast from Intelligence Squared on why authoritarians (and populists) want to control the news, plus other digital propaganda stuff - with me and the invaluable Carl Miller podcasts.apple.com/hr/podcast/w...
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Why Do Authoritarians Want To Control The News? With Martin Moore
Podcast Episode · Intelligence Squared · 28/11/2025 · 34m
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our book launch is tonight at King’s! Please do come along if you’re around the Strand at 6-ish www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dicta...
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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Book Launch) | King's College London
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley will discuss their new book, 'Dictating Reality', published with Columbia University Press, which focuses on how states are battling to control and shape the news in ord...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
On Thursday, Nov. 20th at 6:15, join Thomas Colley and Martin Moore for the launch of their amazing new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS at King's College. bit.ly/43hRFhK @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Book Launch) | King's College London
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley will discuss their new book, 'Dictating Reality', published with Columbia University Press, which focuses on how states are battling to control and shape the news in ord...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Book launch! Two weeks today at King's (The Strand) - me and Tom in conversation about #DictatingReality (and hopefully some copies of the book). More details and registration here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dicta...
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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Book Launch) | King's College London
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley will discuss their new book, 'Dictating Reality', published with Columbia University Press, which focuses on how states are battling to control and shape the news in ord...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Podcast on #DictatingReality with the excellent Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social speaking to Tom & I on everything from Orban's counterfeit public sphere to India's Godi media newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-re...
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Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, "Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Shock? But this is what Orban has been doing for the last 15 years. It’s more of a shock that he didn’t take control of Blikk earlier #dictatingreality
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Shock as Orbán allies take ownership of Hungary’s most-read newspaper
Blikk, a tabloid with about 3 million online monthly readers, bought by pro-Orbán media group Indamedia
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
'The Fourth Estate will not survive unless defended' - interview Tom and I did with Shamsuddoza Sajen at Bangladesh's Daily Star on Dictating Reality www.thedailystar.net/opinion/inte...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
How news is being used by states to create parallel realities - by me and Tom Colley for KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...
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How news is being used to dictate reality
In an age where state directed media and tightly managed information are enabling world leaders to determine their own narratives, it is harder than ever for global citizens to share the same…
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
How do world leaders use the news to determine their own narratives & how does that shape the 'truth'? Dr Martin Moore @kcl-spe.bsky.social & Dr Thomas Colley @warstudieskcl.bsky.social whose new book explores this topic, share their thoughts for #OurDividedPlanet ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...
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How news is being used to dictate reality
In an age where state directed media and tightly managed information are enabling world leaders to determine their own narratives, it is harder than ever for global citizens to share the same…
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today is official publication day! Dictating Reality is now out cup.columbia.edu/book/dictati...
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Dictating Reality | Columbia University Press
From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no long... | CUP
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Hot off the press! DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS, by Martin Moore and Thomas Colley. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/3ddh79yn @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
'Press’s crimes ruined lives, but not those of the papers’ bosses' - link to the piece I wrote for The Observer published yesterday #phonehacking observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Press’s crimes ruined lives, but not those of the papers’...
Those who oversaw the tabloid culture continue life unscathed
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
After phone hacking - what happened next - me for The Observer (will post link when I find it)
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Alphabet, Meta, ABC and CBS have together now paid out over $80m to Trump in order to settle law suits they would have won in court. And Trump has built up a vast crypto fortune to fund more anti-media cases www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
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YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
First copies of Dictating Reality have just arrived! #newbook
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
On Bolsonaro's alternative information ecosystem and why so many Brazilians are living in a parallel reality - by me and Tom Colley - theconversation.com/why-brazilia... - based on research for our forthcoming book Dictating Reality (CUP) cup.columbia.edu/book/dictati...
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Why Brazilians have been so divided in their reaction to Bolsonaro’s conviction
The loyalty of many Brazilians to Bolsonaro seems illogical until you look at where they find their news and information.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"Bolsonaro showed how malleable the new digital information environment could be for those who want to construct alternate realities." @martinjemoore.bsky.social and Thomas Colley, authors of DICTATING REALITY. @columbiaup.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-brazilia...
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Why Brazilians have been so divided in their reaction to Bolsonaro’s conviction
The loyalty of many Brazilians to Bolsonaro seems illogical until you look at where they find their news and information.
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Why Brazilians have been so divided in their reaction to Bolsonaro’s conviction - new article by me and @ThomasColley for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-brazilia...
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Why Brazilians have been so divided in their reaction to Bolsonaro’s conviction
The loyalty of many Brazilians to Bolsonaro seems illogical until you look at where they find their news and information.
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Heading to Brussels next week for big EU digital policy conference: www.wik.org/en/events/ev...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A fundamental challenge for the BBC is threading itself into the lives of the next generation. Why? Because, as I set out in my chapter for 'The BBC: After the Licence Fee' 🧵:
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Out now! Important new book on 'The BBC: After the Licence Fee?' edited by John Mair, Andrew Beck and Janine Chandler - with contributions by Lord (Tony) Hall, Prof John Curtice, me & 20+ others www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-AFTER-LI...
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THE BBC: AFTER THE LICENCE FEE?: Amazon.co.uk: Mair, John, Beck, Andrew, Chandler, Janine: 9781068280849: Books
Buy THE BBC: AFTER THE LICENCE FEE? by Mair, John, Beck, Andrew, Chandler, Janine (ISBN: 9781068280849) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"Compelling and persuasive....A valuable primer for our dark times."-Luke Harding Out this Fall but available now to order: DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL NEWS by @martinjemoore.bsky.social & Thomas Colley. Use the code CUP20 & save 20% tinyurl.com/2743z4yx @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Dictating Reality | Columbia University Press
From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no long... | CUP
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Can Google still justify crawling all online content by fair use and value-added if, rather than providing snippets to promote click-through, it gives people an AI-generated summary? And doesn't the publication of the summary turn it into a publisher (with associated liabilities)?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My column in today's FT: returning to a regular theme, our entry into a 'post-TV' era and the emergence of the first 'post-TV' politicians: who are better at performing a different type of authenticity:
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Trump and Farage are politicians for the post-TV age
Their apparent authenticity and tolerance for controlled anarchy leave their opponents looking tired and staid
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Lead story on @thetimes.com (digital edition) today looks like it’s about Blair’s Net Zero warning, but text is about children learning to play the recorder. Cock up or hack?
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Antitrust ruling vs Google ads presents damning evidence of anti-competitive behaviour. Eg Last Look which let Google's AdX “open the envelope for the winning bid, know what the winning bid [was], and be able . . . to bid after everybody else" (p.35) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Antitrust Ruling Against Google
Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act “by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the online technology ad industry, the court said.
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Will Liz Truss’ plan to start ‘her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform’ (reported in The Times today) last as long as a lettuce? Or should we be looking at dairy products for this one?
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Academic jobs (UK) skeet - AI+ fellowships at King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
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King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Governments have re-learnt the value of state propaganda and mass censorship, even in a world of information abundance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘It’s disinformation’: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests
News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networks
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is such an important point about our lack of shared realities from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, and fascinating data on media consumption fragmentation since 2008 (& it would be great to see the raw data) www.ft.com/content/bbc8...
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The key line here - and we've already seen this in a host of other countries - is that the Trump admin 'are effectively institutionalizing disinformation' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...
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Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term
President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
At the same time as China spends billions on international news (infrastructure & content) and RT/Sputnik spread Kremlin propaganda across the global south, so the Trump admin guts VOA and does its utmost to delegitimize America's voice abroad #wilfulUSdamage
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Media dependency theory suggests that the more we rely on media, the more important it becomes to us. Should we now add AI dependency theory? And what if our politicians - like Peter Kyle - become dependent on AI to govern?
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just read that a Soviet soldier wrote graffiti on Immanuel Kant’s grave at the end of WW2: “Now you understand the world is material” #philosophicalgraffiti
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Reinventing journalism: from man bites dog to dog shoots man
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Martin Moore @martinjemoore.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Russian state media’s handbrake turn. ‘Russia’s interests coincide with those of the US…’ Zhuravlyov says, ‘against Europe’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/w...
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America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told
As President Trump begins to side with Russia, the Kremlin propaganda machine has changed its tune.
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