Ross Burley
@rwdburley.bsky.social
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Co-founder of the Centre for Information Resilience. OSINT, foreign policy, disinfo, Spurs
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Eliot Higgins
12 months ago
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Benjy Sarlin
12 months ago
Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory
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Benjamin Strick
about 1 year ago
Proud of the Sudan Witness team at
@cen4infores.bsky.social
and the work with
@nytimes.com
to track the commanders in Sudan responsible for some of the horrific events happening in the country. A painful but impactful documentary.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000009893408/sudan-war-crimes-rsf.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ever since the shocking events of October 7th last year, the team & I at CIR have been recording, investigating & verifying human rights incidents from Israel, the OPTs & Lebanon. Take a look at our map that visualises the open source data we've collected.
www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...
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Israel-Gaza Conflict Map
The Israel-Gaza Conflict Map is a map of incidents documented by CIR covering the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel and Lebanon since 7 October 2023.
https://www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-war/maps/israel-gaza-conflict-map/
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Centre for Information Resilience
about 1 year ago
As personal and public lives are increasingly played out on the internet and through social media, a new frontier in the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) has emerged. Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇
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Centre for Information Resilience
about 1 year ago
Old bombs, used in a new way. Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact. They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them. What are
#glidebombs
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
about 1 year ago
Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account. If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
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Hello Bluesky! I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇
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