European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza

Indonesian land defender Fatrisia Ain told me about online intimidation on Facebook, including 'red-tagging' – "a very sensitive issue in Indonesia". It's part of a report on Global Witness's new research on the widespread digital threats facing defenders: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

The tiny Mediterranean island is one of Europe's most progressive on LGBTQ+ rights, but at the same time, it has a near-total ban on abortion. What is the reason for this dissonance? #EuropeNews

The Israeli army has been killing dozens of Palestinians at aid hubs in Gaza practically on a daily basis. Soldiers have told Haaretz they have been ordered to fire at crowds “even though it was clear they posed no threat” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Obituary: Peter Krykant, harm reduction campaigner www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The "No Space for Bezos" campaign plans to occupy the city's streets and canals to send the message that the Amazon founder is not welcome in the city, which is already saddled with massive overtourism. #EuropeNews

My piece today for @euronews.com on the potential danger of 'information voids' and platform responsibility amid the Liverpool collision www.euronews.com/2025/05/27/e...

Words fail confronted with this endless, daily barbarity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Journalists have protested against the behaviour of activists who they say harass them and impede their work. #EuropeNews

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

Absolutely incredible investigation by the team @bellingcat.com, TjekDet, Politiken, and CBC that uncovered the identity of the owner of the most prominent deepfake sexual abuse site. This feels like the beginning of justice for victims. I am grateful 🙏 www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

www.euronews.com/2025/05/06/s... 'A new phase' in Sudan's war, says @chathamhouse.org's Ahmed Soliman: 'We’re seeing RSF seeking to hit previously safe areas, hitting critical infrastructure ... to make life extremely difficult for civilians and show the army is not able to provide safety.'

Acute malnutrition rising among Gaza's young children, UN agencies warn www.euronews.com/2025/05/02/a...

'Counter-terrorism became a huge priority in Europe [post 2001], so we saw a shift to easier methods that don’t raise alarm bells. A car, a knife – these are everyday items, often it’s very unclear that someone has bad intentions with them until it’s too late,' @bartschuurman.bsky.social told me

A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric grid. Updates to follow. #EuropeNews

RFK Jr's appointment boosts Europe's anti-vax movements www.euronews.com/2025/04/16/r... "More than half of the top-performing posts analysed were found to be spreading misinformation..." "Clear connection' between misinformation and outbreaks." #VaccinesWork

Meat industry PR campaign may have fuelled backlash against EAT-Lancet planetary diet, leaked document shows - diet recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm keen to speak to disinformation researchers in Europe who are monitoring content related to health and vaccines, for Euronews – if this is you, please DM me or email me at clea.skopeliti[at]ext.euronews.com

I'm keen to speak to disinformation researchers in Europe who are monitoring content related to health and vaccines, for Euronews – if this is you, please DM me or email me at clea.skopeliti[at]ext.euronews.com

A second child has died of measles amid an outbreak in west Texas, sparking a rare rebuke of the Trump administration’s top health officials from a Republican senator on Sunday.

disappearing people off the street .... arresting a person is one thing, her lawyer not knowing where she is and not having access is quite another.

“This is austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them.” My col. on Labour’s sweeping disability cuts and mark of shame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

EXC: Russia-linked Telegram groups are trying to get UK residents to launch terror attacks against mosques & muslims @hopenothate.org.uk has passed on a dossier to British authorities www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

It was only a matter of time. It took them 6 weeks to get there. www.newsweek.com/push-supreme...

One thing I'd note is that legacy media organisations were created in a top-down information system and acted as gatekeepers, while now we live in a peer-to-peer information system and any new media organisation needs to adapt to that reality and understand deeply what that means.

Project 2025: 35% complete in 32 days in office www.project2025.observer

For @theguardian.com's Experience series, I interviewed sailor Laura Dekker about being the youngest person to sail around the world solo – she was just 14 when she set off: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/3 Hard to look at these picture of Amjed Tantesh and his daughters Malak and Enas in the ruins of their home in Beit Lahia. Amjed set up the project to teach kids in Gaza to swim after a spate of drownings. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

For the last 5 months, I’ve spoken to Rosy as she’s fought for care. MND means she needs a ventilator and feeding tube and yet she has been denied 24/7 carers. Rosy is now losing her voice but wants to speak out. We should all listen. In today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“There is an overlap between some manosphere narratives, in particular incel beliefs, and extreme rightwing ideology including racist narratives. Globalisation and multiculturalism… are often blamed as factors in incels’ celibacy.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse. Meta's decision to end fact-checking could unleash a flood of #climate misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, particularly during disasters when accurate info is crucial. Like now. (Jill Hopke @depaulu.bsky.social) 🌎

I don't have anything snide or snarky to say here. I just think it's worth reading this article. Gift link.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

'Misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary' - today's internet as an engine of confirmation bias, a 'justification machine'

Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news

New FOI story for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on the use of prolonged separation in England and Wales' youth prisons for under-18s. 'It seems to have been somehow accepted that we can have prisons that inflict harm on children,' @gemabbott.bsky.social told me www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/cr...