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"My brain will desperately want to forget all this, but the camera will not let it happen," says Mstyslav Chernov in his documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol. Those in Canada can stream it until May 9 on Hot Docs. I hope as many people watch it as possible. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-d

Benjamin Strick

@BenDoBrown

Incitement to Kill: Tracking hate speech targeting Ukrainians during Russia’s war in Ukraine

З лютого 2022 року у Twitter, Telegram та інших платформах різко зросла кількість мови ненависті, яка підбурює, пропагує та виправдовує насильство проти українців.

@Cen4infoRes

визначив ці мережі та маршрути поширення. Дякуємо

@cryptodrftng

за переклад

info-res.org

By Benjamin Strick Executive Summary This research examines the use of hate speech and national slurs to dehumanise, call for violence against, and celebrate the death of Ukrainians. The data...

“We Were Always Playing An Entirely Different Game”: The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News

End-of-an-era gossip has arrived.

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BuzzFeed News has been described as a chaos agent, a pirate ship, a reputable news organization, and, most notably, a “failing pile of garbage” by former president Donald Trump. We wanted to tell our...

BuzzFeed News forever 🫶🚀

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Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos

Today is the last day of BuzzFeed News. I wanted the last word on it to be from the people who worked there. Here's the final post, the Oral History of BuzzFeed News: buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfe

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Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos

“We Were Always Playing An Entirely Different Game”: The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News

Today is the last day of BuzzFeed News. I wanted the last word on it to be from the people who worked there. Here's the final post, the Oral History of BuzzFeed News:

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Well, buzzfeednews.com is now an archive. I will just say this: The people made that newsroom. We were allowed to experiment, be weird, take big swings. We looked out for one another. I'm so proud of our work. Pour one out for BuzzFeed News today. End of an era.

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Thought I was hallucinating Prigozhin's voice but turned out my neighbour was just watching the news. Weird week.

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Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song (English subtitles, napisy polskie and...

UKRAINESoldiers fighting on behalf of the entire world for freedom perform the famous song: BayraktarUkrainian folklore group CвітоглядецьUKRAINA. Żołnierze ...

Ukrainian air command confirm this was a Bayraktar that lost control over Kyiv facebook.com/kpszsu/posts/4-%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE-20-%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%83-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%97-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96-%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B4-%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83-%D0%B2%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2/625225606312058/ Godspeed to the drone operator, eh?

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The cheers and applause at the end. Surreal. Amen to air defence.

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Something tells me the Ukrainian cheers will hit Russians just as hard as Ukrainian air defence.

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Christopher Miller

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Some Ukrainians ran for cover during the drone attack. I saw many others stay put on the street, watching and filming the Russian drones over Kyiv. Several videos filmed by Ukrainians look and sound like this, with celebrations as the drone is downed.

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

I just saw a drone or missile or something hitting a building downtown Kyiv. It felt routine, mundane. People stopped by to watch. Firemen and paramedics focused, working. Police setting up a perimeter. The building was empty, nothing there really. A couple of shops. 1/

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How did that drone make it all the way to the center of Kyiv before being shot down?

The cheers and applause at the end. Surreal. Amen to air defence.

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Isobel Koshiw

@IKoshiw

This is awful. Constant sound of explosions, shooting by air defense

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Isobel Koshiw

@IKoshiw

Never heard this many explosions - one after the other - in the centre, think it’s air defence but can also hear a drone twitter.com/IKoshiw/status…

How not to interview a war criminal

natalia antelava

@antelava

May 2

Hate writing pieces about colleagues. But the recent

@VICENews

exclusive from Russia is a masterclass on how to become a tool in someone else’s disinformation game

codastory.com

Disinfo Matters is a weekly newsletter that looks beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

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Jack Margolin

@Jack_Mrgln

This makes it sounds like the Russians have rigged the NPP with bombs, but the quote from UA nuclear authorities makes it clear that this is (insanely irresponsible) storage of arms and munitions. It’s very bad/dangerous but this is too open to misinterpretation.

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Samuel Ramani

@SamRamani2

BREAKING: The IAEA confirms Russia has placed explosives near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant Unit 4

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Shayan Sardarizadeh

@Shayan86

Nuclear war is not a freaking joke. If you tweet evidence-free and unverified nonsense about the use of nuclear weapons for engagement and clout, you deserve nothing but contempt.

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Benjamin Strick

@BenDoBrown

Racial hate speech has surged on Twitter, Telegram and other platforms to incite, promote and justify violence against Ukrainians since Feb 2022. Our research at

@Cen4infoRes

has identified these networks, who they are and how they spread. Full report: info-res.org/post/incitemen

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Pjotr Sauer

@PjotrSauer

Local neighbourhood groups on Telegram were discussing the alleged strike at 2 am last night. Apparently the Kremlin went dark shortly after

❗️Vilen Temeryanov - a citizen journalist. He has been imprisoned for political reasons in #Crimea since August 2022. "What is happening in Crimea is a new method to intimidate people and another repression for disagreement with Russia’s policy" told Vilen. #FreeTemeryanov

❗️Vladyslav Yesypenko - a freelance contributor to Radio Free Europe. He has been imprisoned for political reasons in #Crimea since March 2021. "Many of us were tortured, threatened so that we would confess to what we did not do...and betray our homeland" - he told #FreeYesypenko

❗️Amet Suleymanov - a citizen journalist who has a heart disease. He had been under house arrest for political reasons in #Crimea since 2020. On April 6, 2023, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. Imprisonment means a death sentence to him. #FreeSuleymanov

❗️Iryna Danylovych - a citizen journalist and a nurse. She was abducted and imprisoned for political reasons in #Crimea in April 2022. She has almost lost her hearing and there is a threat to her life but when Iryna asked for help, she only heard: "Cut your veins" #FreeDanylovych

Aric Toler

@AricToler

Apparent Ukrainian attacks within Russia and Russian-controlled territory over the last 4 days: -Drone attack on huge fuel storage facility in Crimea -Drone attack on oil depot near Kerch Bridge -Two major trail derailments in Bryansk region -Drone attack at the Kremlin

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Ukrainska Pravda in English

@pravda_eng

⚡️ Moment where drone hits Kremlin

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Pjotr Sauer

@PjotrSauer

Video of the alleged Kremlin drone attack

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434 days after the full-scale invasion that was supposed to defeat Ukraine in three days, the Kremlin is on fire.

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Yaroslav Trofimov

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Russia says that two drones, which it claims are Ukrainian, tried to strike Putin’s residence in the Kremlin during the night. Here is footage from a neighborhood social media channel.

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The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai

Alex Campbell

@alexcampbell

May 2

Drop what you’re doing and read this jaw-dropping

@HeidilBlake

investigation into the disappearance of Dubai princess Latifa — and how the UK government, by wilfully ignoring red flags about the UAE regime for years, enabled it:

newyorker.com

As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control.

A jaw-dropping investigation from the first sentence to the last. Wow.

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Heidi Blake

@HeidilBlake

May 1

One of the more astonishing things about reporting the story of Dubai's fugitive princess, two of whom were forcibly abducted from the UK, was hearing officials speak baldly about the reasons for Britain's inaction. 1/4 newyorker.com/magazine/2023/

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Last fall, Zeg held a conference dedicated to covering the war in Ukraine. It was cerebral. I can’t recommend attending enough.

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natalia antelava

@antelava

Apr 30

Want an excuse to explore the beautiful Tbilisi? We got you covered. @TbilisiZeg is festival like no other. June 8-10. Amazing speakers, 3 days of magic & inspiration. Join us tbilisistorytelling.com

Letters to Evan Gershkovich, my friend in a Moscow jail

Polina Ivanova

@polinaivanovva

Apr 29

I tried to put Evan’s wit and wisdom, and all of our pain, onto one page. This is my letter to our brilliant friend, who as of today has spent a full month in jail.

ft.com

We chronicled Russia together, hopeful about its future. Now the Wall Street Journal reporter has been in prison for a month

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Incredible investigation from

@truth_hounds

uncovering the aviation squadron that carried out a bombing in Mykolaiv. The investigators started with an examination of debris and worked backwards from there. An #osint master class. truth-hounds.org/en/sky-witness

Unreleased Report Finds Faults in Amnesty International’s Criticism of Ukraine

Charlie Savage

@charlie_savage

Apr 27

Exclusive: Amnesty International is sitting on a report it commissioned by an independent panel of experts who scrutinized - and criticized - its disputed accusation that Ukrainian forces had a pattern of illegally endangering civilians. Here's the report.

nytimes.com

The rights group commissioned an independent review of its August accusation that Ukrainian forces illegally put civilians in harm’s way.

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Iryna Matviyishyn

@IMatviyishyn

Uman’, Central Ukraine this morning. Russian missile hit a residential block when people were sleeping.

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Oliver Carroll

@olliecarroll

9 now confirmed dead in Uman

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Олена Зеленська

@ZelenskaUA

Uman’... Russians destroyed a part of a high-rise building with a precision missile hit. There are people under the rubbles. It seems like a parallel reality, as people cannot do this to people. But Russians – can. My condolences to the victims’ families... Retribution will come.

Sky News

@SkyNews

Apr 27

'I didn't know that you came here.' Sky's

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found her uncle in the crowds as evacuees were arriving in Jeddah from Sudan. trib.al/qF6YOfp

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Christopher Miller

@ChristopherJM

Apr 27

Two photos that capture the unutterable devastation wrought by Russia and shattered lives in Bakhmut: One showing the "happy family" murals on adjacent apartment blocks at western entrance; another showing mother & daughter building demolished. 📸: L,

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