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Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow
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Renee DiResta
14 days ago
Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
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A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/technology/ai-slop-sora-social-media.html?nl=On+Tech&segment_id=212323
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Eugene Finkel
14 days ago
Hey, Ukraine scholars, there is a job! A job! A job for you without "Russian", Slavic", "Soviet" or "Post-Soviet" in the title. A blue-yellow, trident shaped unicorn, in blood and flesh
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Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-ProfessorProfessor-John-Yaremko-Chair-in-Ukrainian-History-ON/598087317/
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Jakob
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Peter Pomerantsev: EU kan vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfÀktningen
Techmagnater gillar att framstÀlla sig som yttrandefrihetens riddare men EU har goda chanser att vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfÀktningen.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/peter-pomerantsev-eu-kan-vinna-forsta-ronden-i-den-digitala-tuppfaktningen/
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Anne Applebaum
21 days ago
'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the presidentâs closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patelâs FBI investigating anyone in Trumpâs White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33X0lgpfLuVN_3VQ2IrzF5k
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Anne Applebaum
22 days ago
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
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Mina Kimes
23 days ago
Read this:
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Alexios Mantzarlis
25 days ago
Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services. Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored. Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.
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Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 month ago
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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ÄeskĂ© novinky đšđż
about 1 month ago
Rusko uskuteÄĆuje sen o rozdÄlenĂ ZĂĄpadu. PravĂœm poraĆŸenĂœm nenĂ Ukrajina, ale Evropa, mĂnĂ Pomerantsev VyjednavaÄi SpojenĂœch stĂĄtĆŻ a Ukrajiny v ĆœenevÄ zpĆesnili dokument, kterĂœ mĂĄ ukonÄit vĂĄlku s Ruskem. âPro Ukrajinu to ve srovnĂĄnĂ s tÄmi hroznĂœmi nĂĄvrhy, co byly vydĂĄny pĆed mÄsĂcem, je...
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Rusko uskuteÄĆuje sen o rozdÄlenĂ ZĂĄpadu. PravĂœm poraĆŸenĂœm nenĂ Ukrajina, ale Evropa, mĂnĂ Pomerantsev
Pomerantsev se domnĂvĂĄ, ĆŸe Rusko se jen tak nevzdĂĄ svĂ© snahy dobĂœt vĂce ukrajinskĂ©ho ĂșzemĂ. MĂĄ prĂœ pocit, ĆŸe na bojiĆĄti dÄlĂĄ pokroky a nĂĄvrhy mĂrovĂœch dohod mĆŻĆŸe AmeriÄany drĆŸet ve hĆe.
https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/rusko-uskutecnuje-sen-o-rozdeleni-zapadu-pravym-porazenym-neni-ukrajina-ale_2511260717_dci
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Francis Wade
about 1 month ago
Glad to commission this from
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on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda. â
@noemamag.com
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy â rather than just chronicling its demise.
https://www.noemamag.com/journalism-in-an-age-of-authoritarianism/
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 month ago
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 1 month ago
"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
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WAR ROOM
about 1 month ago
@michaelneiberg.bsky.social & @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social discuss #propaganda at #CVHF2024! Hear the parallels between #WWII & #Ukraine, focusing on Sefton Delmer's counter-Nazi "fake news" tactics. Essential listening for current events! #WARROOM
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/mod...
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It's Not All About ME
about 1 month ago
If quoting Peter Pomerantsev
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
and Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
weren't enough, describing X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" is all you need to know this will be a good read. Definitely worth 5 minutes of your time, and a gift link too!
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Noema Magazine
about 1 month ago
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy â rather than just chronicling its demise, Peter Pomerantsev argues.
#authoritarian
#journalism
#disinformation
#media
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy â rather than just chronicling its demise.
https://www.noemamag.com/journalism-in-an-age-of-authoritarianism/?utm_source=noemabluesky&utm_medium=noemasocial
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Nonviolence 3.0
about 1 month ago
"Instead of thinking about debunking disinformation, we should be thinking about how to tell better storiesâŠthey're stories of action, stories of policy, stories of meaningâŠAnd it's up to us to tell these stories." âPeter Pomerantsev
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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
on the âpeace planâ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
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about 2 months ago
"We have two ways of having a relationship with the language all around us [...]. We can either be defined by it or rebel and re create it." Peter Pomerantsev, 'How to Win an Information War'
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Authoritarian propaganda ruthlessly exploits peoples need to belong, latent resentments, insecurities and helplessness. To compete you need to dive into the dark operating theatre of human desireâŠ.some lessons from research across Europe thats applicable to to US
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy â rather than just chronicling its demise.
https://www.noemamag.com/journalism-in-an-age-of-authoritarianism
about 1 month ago
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 month ago
"Trump treats American potency as a wasting asset, drawing it down over and over to satisfy his personal whims and ideas," says Thomas Wright. But sooner or later, power will drain away
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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What If âAmerica Firstâ Appears to Work?
âMight makes rightâ is still wrong for America, but opposing it just got harder.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/11/trump-foreign-policy/684969/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32oHwaLIaxfvbHnoQsRiO7g
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about 1 month ago
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
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magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read
The team behind The Guardian Long Read join us to introduce this new magazine
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture-meets-the-guardian-long-read-tickets-1968790380025?aff=GLRnl1
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Anne Applebaum
about 2 months ago
"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone
www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
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Terror Returns to Darfur
Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/4NL_ODJKTbc
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Philip Leventhal
about 2 months ago
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley.
bit.ly/3Xbzab9
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Darth Putin
2 months ago
The collapse of Putin's system will only happen if it can be overloaded with more problems than it can manage.
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
in the bunker with Prez & Liubov
youtu.be/vjQHcJ0EyLA
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Anne Applebaum
about 2 months ago
Very telling that oligarchs want to be called aristocrats. On the donors who think they deserve to rule:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGAâs future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trumpâs Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An âaristocracyâ is needed to move the country forward.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/
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Laure
about 2 months ago
While watching this academic lecture by
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, I thought; why, are so few seeking ways to undermine far-right populist
#propaganda
? It floods info channels globally, sweeps up followers in myths & distortions while the opposition...reacts to it. Instead of disrupting it?
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2025 George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture with Peter Pomerantsev
YouTube video by Yale MacMillan Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJEN3BoecCs
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Paulus
about 2 months ago
"It's not about the facts. Disinformation is about identity, emotion and trauma" - Peter Pomerantsev
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Peter Pomerantsev: It's not about the facts. Disinformation is about identity, emotion and trauma
YouTube video by ÄeskĂœ rozhlas Plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-0bqtwLwzE
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On the self-destructive psychology of populistâs desire to âtake back controlâ âŠa form of self harm
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/oc...
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Peter Pomerantsev | âTake Back Controlâ
I know that a nation doesnât experience trauma in the same way as a person, but I couldnât help wondering whether...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/october/take-back-control
about 2 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
2 months ago
âThe Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.â read this horrific report from Kherson:
open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...
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Talking to Ukrainians under the rain of Russian bombs
Far away from the futile Trump-Putin noise (will he? wonât he? why didn't he?), Ukrainians are being targeted and killed every day. I talked to friends and acquaintances in Kherson, a frontline city.
https://open.substack.com/pub/twogrumpyoldmenonukraine/p/talking-to-ukrainians-under-the-rain?r=177tk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Darth Putin
2 months ago
Latest from the bunker for Patreons features
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
"What Putin fears most is losing control" He made his own drinks.
www.patreon.com/posts/142096...
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What Putin fears more than anything is losing control | In the Bunker with Darth
Get more from In the Bunker with Darth on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/142096086
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Politiken
2 months ago
Velkommen til hybridkrigen, Danmark. Her kommer tre gode rÄd
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DebatindlÊg | LÊs Politikens mange forskellige debatindlÊg. Det enkelte indlÊg er udtryk for skribentens holdning. Du kan ogsÄ fÄ bragt dit debatindlÊg.
https://politiken.dk/debat/debatindlaeg/art10588144/Velkommen-til-hybridkrigen-Danmark.-Her-kommer-tre-gode-r%C3%A5d?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1761473818
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Foreign Policy
2 months ago
To make Putin worried enough to consider a cease-fire more seriously, the West must act in the informational domain, write Peter Pomerantsev and Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi.
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How to Fight Putin on the Information Battlefield
The West canât fully adopt Russiaâs methodsâbut it should study them.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/23/information-warfare-putin-russia-propaganda/
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Frank Cogliano
2 months ago
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paineâs Common Sense yesterday. At the line, âin America the law is king,â they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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Chris Hayes
2 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
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Opinion | Chris Hayes: The Democratsâ Main Problem Isnât Their Message
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/opinion/democrats-attention-elections.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Anne Applebaum
3 months ago
"We always think about Americaâs postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/america-democracy-autocracy/684335/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39aSMipcYjqT3FSdM6_hvGI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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alr.lykkeđŠ
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Greg Jenner
3 months ago
You may call it âChatfishingâ, but I shall only refer to it as âCyrano de Berger-Appâ
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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âI realised Iâd been ChatGPT-ed into bedâ: how âChatfishingâ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But itâs one thing to use a witty phrase â another thing entirely...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps
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Sara Silverstein
3 months ago
Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.
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Olesya Khromeychuk
3 months ago
âEveryday Amulets: On House Keys from Crimea to Palestine and Beyondâ by Maria Sonevytsky
londonukrainianreview.org/posts/everyd...
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Olesya Khromeychuk
3 months ago
âLessons from the Empire: The Concert Hall as Securityâ by Leah Batstone
londonukrainianreview.org/posts/lesson...
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Some âputin getting fed the data he wants to see on Ukraineâ vibesâŠ.propaganda works as a tool as long as you donât get high off your own supply
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3 months ago
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
Our authoritarianism is run on clichĂ©s borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies â it was all tiresome then and there, and now itâs pathetic.
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Emily Bell
3 months ago
I feel very moved by the Portland resistance - inflatable people, hot-to-go dancers and twerking dinosaurs, as this piece outlines , itâs true courage, defanging fear
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RobinK đđȘđșđ„
3 months ago
This interview with
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is quite brilliant. »Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a world of truth and justice today, and creating the kind of space where democracy can be practised.«
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Zesmerelda
3 months ago
"How to Win an Information War: Sefton Delmer, the Genius Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler"-Peter Pomerantsev. Read this based on a Ted talk by the author. It's an expanded version of that w/more history, details, citations. Fascinating look at the propaganda war in WWII (both sides).
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@timothysnyder.bsky.social
great books are important- but nothing is quite as tangible in its direct impact as his campaign to fundraise frontline trucks and buses with anti drone equipment. Join us!
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder â a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
https://www.help99.co/patches/timothy-snyder-freedom-is-action
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How to hold Russiaâs propagandists accountable
The most dangerous words arenât necessarily the most violent ones. And disinformation campaigns could offer a new avenue for establishing responsibility.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-propaganda-campaign-war-crimes-icc-ukraine-information/
3 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
3 months ago
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Ukraineâs Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. âââââ
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/ukraines-strategy-to-win-the-war/684356/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-4qNMMXdjjRjLDwcojEhyU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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