keanwong
@keanwong.bsky.social
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seasianista via nusantara, editor of (banned)
http://bit.ly/2XpANUG
&
https://bit.ly/m/keanwong
pinned post!
great CMT podcast ep re: SEAsia media surviving/thriving amid dis/misinformation, tech dystopias & biz implosion trauma w. insights from
@abscbnnews.bsky.social
's Arlene,
@idntimes.bsky.social
's Uni, AstroAwani's Ash & Jubi's VictorM via ace CMT'er Alexia & co
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cen...
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Editors across the regional talk news trends by Double Take
In this episode of Double Take, South Asia media expert Kean Wong asks senior news editors what they're doing to stave off financial ruin in a media world hard hit by Covid-19, how they would like to ...
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/centre-for-media-transiti/episodes/Editors-across-the-regional-talk-news-trends-e2pvu7e/a-abjepj0
over 1 year ago
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The New York Times
9 days ago
As tech companies rush to build big A.I. data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration that can also be physically felt is ruining their health and homes.
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The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of the A.I. Boom
As tech giants rush to build big data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.
https://nyti.ms/4edCAUi
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Doug Mack
11 days ago
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
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How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/24/space-echo-mystery-behind-cosmic-sound-cabo-verde
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Erin Cook
3 months ago
After three Indonesian peacekeepers were killed in Lebanon earlier this week, more have been injured today.
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Guardian US
3 months ago
Amnesty International has warned that the World Cup, spread across three North American countries, risks becoming a ‘stage for repression’
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Amnesty International warns Fifa World Cup risks becoming ‘stage for repression’
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/30/fifa-world-cup-amnesty-international-donald-trump-ice-human-rights?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1774885596-1
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Ben Eltham
3 months ago
Watching ABC Insiders (so you don’t have to) but it’s a perfect illustration of the vacancy of Australian politics. Interviewing Barnaby Joyce in a big hat and then Matthew Knott and Jane Norman trying to explain energy policy. It’s embarrassing
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404 Media
5 months ago
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/
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how do we value once utopian artefacts of now-rare vinyl classics that'll fetch price$$ at auction
@marcuskelson.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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"Silicon Valley hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. 'Techno-libertarianism' had no time for the messy realities of being human."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
7 months ago
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Systemic failures of financial institutions &markets enable corruption
#kleptocracy
checked by journalism says Nobel laureate
#JosephStiglitz
, amid info integrity attacks via
#AI
... belies society's financialisation woes & looming shadow banking collapse? not detailed enough here
@gijn.org
#gijc25
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7 months ago
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💥 rake over
#AI
empires & power, malevolent goldrush that dismantles society via unaccountable
#broligarchy
hyping 'heaven'/
#dystopia
- "scale boggles the mind" of data centres' fossil fuelled blackholes a la openAi etc trillion$ claims
#climateemergency
#democracy
@karenhao.bsky.social
7 months ago
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theatricality and info integrity in the era of chaotic powerplays & inequality chasms overlooked as JoKukathas Kurosawa'a Rashomon to think in journalistic terms, investigating beliefs where flooding the zone with shit now commonplace
#GIJC25
7 months ago
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Good pts re: authenticity premium/hunger of audiences; persuasive voicings that are popular not deceptively populist, diversity of hidden songs & liminal moments amid corporate algorithms; from distant China autocrats to intimate pandemic subjects & brazen scamsters
#gijc25
@suelinwong.bsky.social
7 months ago
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A Nobel Laureate in my hometown reminds us in a bracing morning of the stakes today for our communities ... where info warfare & info integrity is core as the enshittification of civilisation is fuelled by broligarchs et al
#trust
#democracy
#journalism
#gijc25
@mariaressa.bsky.social
7 months ago
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saturday retail: a box for auction from a busted shop, iphone cases for
#heaven
well wrapped
8 months ago
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new digital caste to suit newly financialised economy: 'Scamming became the new farming. The fathers try a different crop every season; the sons, a different con.'
#latecapitalism
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages
The long read: How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/scamming-became-the-new-farming-inside-india-cybercrime-villages
8 months ago
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better than Ponzi... "The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted 'I don’t know' too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to grow its user base and achieve profitability."
www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know
Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-hallucinates-because-it-s-trained-fake-answers-it-doesn-t-know?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=79658943&et_cid=5774522
8 months ago
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Devil's in the lopsided details: "The benefits to 4 SEAsian nations were less clear.. failed to negotiate a lower tariff rate than 19-20% initially imposed... only about $1b of exports to the US, or 0.2% of Malaysia’s GDP, would receive a zero tariff rate."
www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
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Trump’s newest trade deals give US an edge over South-east Asia
Asean is now a larger supplier of goods to the America than China Read more at The Business Times.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/trumps-newest-trade-deals-give-us-edge-over-south-east-asia
8 months ago
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another win? "This was, in retrospect, the Decade of the Hawks, the Washington-based China experts who forcefully made the case for confrontation...including China experts and Washington policy hands who have never set foot in the Middle Kingdom — shaped US policy."
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks
A decade of tough US policy toward China ends with a whimper.
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/27/2025/trump-is-poised-to-end-washingtons-decade-of-the-china-hawks
8 months ago
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older
#asean
democrat &chair
#AnwarIbrahim
welcomes youngest democracy
#timorleste
in, while rakyat rally against older democracy's crumbling literally &figuratively amid genocide; its leader jigs 2 KL warmth,centring
#pmx
skills in historic week of superpower talks
www.facebook.com/reel/7970968...
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8 months ago
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breaking the silence: multigenerational Aboriginal Chinese families up north with poignant stories contesting colonial
#auspol
frameworks, the stolen generation finding chinese refuge from white colonialists, and some still living with traumas of White Aust Policy in their family legacies
9 months ago
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hearing legendary
#HenryReynolds
, 87, lucidly sketching out Cairns, Darwin, "multicultural Chinese towns" until WW2, & "Aboriginal people preferred working for Chinese, shared food, kitchens... a profound difference that the Chinese took responsibility for their children as part of new families.."
9 months ago
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Ketan Joshi
9 months ago
This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:
www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...
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good points
@mikeyslezak.bsky.social
re: press freedom &false equivalences, breaking silence over
#Gaza
in
#auspol
newsrooms, targeted killings of journos & newsrooms jobs, power(points) barely scrutinised ... & industry implosion reveals fragmented startups?
@withmeaa.bsky.social
@MediaDiverseAU
9 months ago
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'peacemaker-in-chief': "The White House is conditioning Trump’s attendance at the Oct. 26-28 ASEAN meeting on the Malaysian government agreeing to allow Trump to preside over a ceremonial signing of a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand on the summit sidelines"
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Trump seeks peace ceremony spotlight at ASEAN summit
Trump wants to preside over a Thailand-Cambodia peace deal ceremony — and Chinese officials aren’t welcome.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-seeks-peace-ceremony-spotlight-at-asean-summit-00595237
9 months ago
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out at last:
#OmarMusa
Borneo novel, so fine & authentic, his imposter-syndrome musing may be book's patriarch too, always a step ahead of stifling post-colonial legacies. In uncertain nations, everyone's cosplaying, imposters abound because the feels triumph, the vibe swamps inconvenient facts...
9 months ago
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birthdaydrinks: unraveling authenticity in desperately ambitious era of influencers, sophistry, genocide & that climate emergency, in handy stroll w.
#markmordue
9 months ago
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showmanship... or just learning from seAsia 🙃 “Trump is knocking off one by one all the late-night TV show hosts, but at the same time the actual ownership of the networks is changing as well ... There’s a sort of conservativisation taking place of big US media.”
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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How Trump’s billionaire mate is reshaping America
Larry Ellison has long been overshadowed by tech luminaries such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Not any more.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-tech-billionaire-shifting-the-world-s-media-to-the-right-20250922-p5mwwo.html
9 months ago
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like an ersatz outake from a Godfather movie, or nusantara nous... "We can do this the easy way or the hard way.. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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Jimmy Kimmel show pulled by ABC in the US over Charlie Kirk assassination remarks
President Donald Trump celebrated after the Disney-owned network said it would stop airing the veteran late-night comic’s show.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/jimmy-kimmel-show-ditched-by-abc-in-the-us-over-charlie-kirk-remarks-20250918-p5mw1j.html
9 months ago
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"..protest& opposition to Suharto had spread on campuses,the middle class, among urban poor, laying the groundwork for 1998. Today, the dynamics are similar, 2025 didn't come out of nowhere. Instead, they're at least 5th wave of youth-led mass protest since 2019."
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
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Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
https://www.newmandala.org/mass-protest-and-the-two-worlds-of-indonesian-politics/
10 months ago
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Rozanna Latiff
10 months ago
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.
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"In this era of information deluge and weaponisation, where much is not what it seems and facts are optional, banning books and febrile campaigns against legacy media may be sideshows of a looming bigger opera."
go.unimelb.edu.au/3q9p
..in part of
@mariaressa.bsky.social
event
@rappler.bsky.social
10 months ago
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finding such weariness, hope and optimism for the
#paxamericana
to come, in these historic front pages of a newspaper i'd worked for decades later, as the ends close in on themselves and the centre doesn't hold
10 months ago
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our alumni chats blowup more... “I believe Chancellor Bishop is hostile and arrogant to staff. The previous VC Brian Schmidt kept the chancellor’s behaviour in check. Council's dysfunctional and toxic under the current regime, elected council members are afraid.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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11 months ago
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the 21st-century Leni will do better heroic framing?
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
11 months ago
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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ
11 months ago
#BREAKING
: IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL CEASEFIRE BETWEEN THAILAND CAMBODIA AT MIDNIGHT Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim announces breakthrough after talks between acting Thai PM Phumtham Wechayachai and Cambodia PM Hun Manet in Putrajaya. Full speech below
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While big
#turunAnwar
rally obscured PN opposition's fractious politix, “The solution isn't more one-off aid or last-minute announcements. What we need is structural reform & consistent, empathetic leadership that engages w. rakyat beyond election cycles & crises.”
#madani
hipz.my/turun-anwar-...
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‘Turun Anwar’ Rally a Wake-Up Call, Not a Threat, Says Klang MP
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — The recent Turun Anwar rally, though modest in turnout, sends a strong signal of growing public dissatisfaction, particularly over unaddressed socio-economic grievances, said K...
https://hipz.my/turun-anwar-rally-a-wake-up-call-not-a-threat-says-klang-mp/
11 months ago
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banishing Thaksin's chaos 'for good' in military's checkmate of dangerous civilians, via
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social
: "The conflict has allowed the military to stoke nationalism, and the leaked phone call, amidst this spike of nationalism, got rid of Paetongtarn..."
www.cfr.org/blog/real-re...
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The Real Reasons for the Thai-Cambodia Conflict
While long-standing border disputes explain some of the current violence between Thailand and Cambodia, the conflict’s escalation is primarily driven by Thai elites’ drive to consolidate military and…
https://www.cfr.org/blog/real-reasons-thai-cambodia-conflict
11 months ago
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"For all its claims to superior virtue, liberal America manifests very little courage & dignity it's expected from artists & thinkers in less fortunate societies, as hooded masked officials disappear students for the crime of writing school op-eds & liking soc-med posts"
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/08/speaking-reassurance-to-power-pankaj-mishra-easy-chair/
11 months ago
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dawn over the harbour, clouds still to clear,
#nusantara
dim and distant in
#auspol
imagination?
11 months ago
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Deeply Malaysian chat, but can an uncertain nation well seared previously by Jit Murad's revealing, often satirical English-language theatre and social framings resonate with genZ religiosity, confused anti-secularism & Anglosphere-v-bahasa nusantara class disdain?
12 months ago
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today's CP daily priority, as new US boorish ambo overshadows diminished Rubio, w. PMX walking hand-in-hand with WangYi. The sharp tabloid w. renowned visual verve does geopolitix succinctly, another pax americana moment of dying-in-ditch...
12 months ago
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Conflict preventions retraced over decades updated
#Asean
summit & ISIS M'sia via
@rorymedcalf.bsky.social
& ICG's Huong Le Thu w. urgent reviving of "mandate without breaking Asean mechanisms" incl "shared facts", poss roles for
#auspol
as 'creative partner' in region... w. extra resource$?
12 months ago
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Explaining a 'progressive patriotism' off
@albomp.bsky.social
Curtin speech,
#auspol
FM PennyWong charms Malaysians w. stout pts: "we must shape the region we want... we will keep prioritising this region, upholding the rules and norms that protect us", no US-China binaries in current turmoil
12 months ago
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tasty diversion in diversity @ KL: classic malaysian fusions, where quality diners are now scattered across the Klang valley and cost per meal nudges $8 rather than 4 from just 2 years ago, as stalwarts stall holders retire, wages and rents soar ahead of trade war angst
12 months ago
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this Omar-Mariel collab was so resonant of our times, her conjuring downtown
#NYC
sonic discord was like unravelling modernity, matching his lyrical yet anxious dystopia of the seas &hills. And pivoting too a funny history lesson on Sabah
#Borneo
Malaya, of conquests to today (w. more colonisation?)
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12 months ago
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Amazing Malaysian-Aust artists OmarMusa & Mariel RobertsMusa in 'The Offering', his poet/jiwa so triggered/staged by her full swells of cello &brass stabs, afloat Borneo's plastic ocean of climate emergency, as Omar's classic 'Fire on the hills' urgently rings w. sonic discordance & fierce woodcuts
12 months ago
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"It seems more likely that we will continue to work in an environment where students are shortchanged, academics treated like children, university leaders dramatically overpaid, and the public gets less back than it should from its already dwindling investment."
insidestory.org.au/dropping-out...
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Dropping out, burning out, tuning out • Andrew Dean
Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies
https://insidestory.org.au/dropping-out-burning-out-tuning-out/
12 months ago
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Trust as audiences shrink: "We're weary of the cycle of corporate concern, review and apology...More significant for
#ABC
is the break in trust w. a multicultural audience. Silencing 1 side of the story isn’t success. Shutting down voices isn't 'social cohesion'."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ABC squandered trust with its multicultural audience when it sent Antoinette Lattouf packing | Paula Kruger
Shutting down voices is not ‘social cohesion’. We need a different approach to our most difficult conversations
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/antoinette-lattouf-journalist-v-abc-media-trust
about 1 year ago
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Judgement against: "The decision was made to appease the pro-Israel lobbyists who would inevitably escalate their complaints about the ABC employing a presenter they perceived to have anti-Semitic and anti-Israel opinions in such a public position."
www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...
about 1 year ago
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