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Dr. Julie Posetti
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Global Director of Research . Senior Researcher & Research Associate . Author: Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age
Oxford, Englandicfj.orgJoined May 2008

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“Everything I do in my life is being dissected by a virtual lynch mob which is waiting for a signal from the government to come after me” - on talking about the hybrid threats she faces for practising critical journalism in 🇮🇳
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hot damn news!!! This just posted - Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg set to be deposed in a federal court (N. Cal) for first time regarding their Cambridge Analytica cover-up. This on top of the 13yrs of discovery of their messages and files which recently kickstarted. /1
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My statement: “The big picture is of a government that generally ignores or does not comply promptly with public information requests and then selectively provides information according to what narrative it wants to shape in any particular moment.”
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the ‘Facebook Journalism Project’ is quietly being wound down
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Facebook moving farther and farther from news, winding down the products and teams that @campbell_brown created and lead. wsj.com/articles/faceb
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As an Australian who lived through many fire seasons, and reported on a numerous bushfires, one thing I cannot believe about the UK 🇬🇧 response to this destructive & unprecedented heatwave - yes, it is stinking 🥵 - is the laissez faire attitude towards fire 🔥 prevention 1/2
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Flawed as the Online Harms Bill might be, it is certainly not designed to protect people from "hurt feelings". #OnlineViolence can have very serious physical impacts. Which is why Ms Badenoch was called out for her own online conduct, as documented here: en.unesco.org/publications/t
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This is completely wrong @KemiBadenoch - tell me where in this bill there is any provision that requires the removal of legal speech. Instead for the first time we can set safety standards online based on our laws. Why would you want to stop that. twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/s…
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New report from by examining the function of AI & #disinfo in state-linked info operations
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I'll discuss my report "Artificial intelligence and disinformation - state-aligned information operations and the distortion of the public sphere" and share recommendations with @OSCE Member States & @OSCE_RFoM. The report delves into key aspects incl: osce.org/files/f/docume
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Disgusting threat by ’s Director of Communications (on behalf of Boris Johnson) against for his public interest reporting. Full solidarity with Paul - and we’ll be keeping a close eye on this.
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On who Johnson went with, I put the rumour that he was accompanied by a specific young woman to Downing Street. Guto Harri told me that Johnson denies it and: “If you publish this, then the Prime Minister will sue and you can be the first to contribute to his retirement fund.”
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NEW: A national security risk unseen since the Profumo Affair. Who accompanied Boris Johnson to a former KGB agent's villa in Italy after the Skripal poisonings? Why didn't the then Foreign Secretary say he met Alexander Lebedev? w/ .
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Leading Indian fact-checker remains in detention as cases mount over his innocuous & satirical tweets.
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Lakhimpur Kheri Court remands Mohammed Zubair to 14-day judicial custody in third case based on tweets for allegedly promoting religious enmity #MohammedZubair #zubairarrest barandbench.com/news/litigatio
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Many politicians, spooks,diplomats and media abroad are shocked that this is not a bigger story in 🇬🇧 where It happened. I was eventually proved right that the Nolan principles would do for Johnson. I now predict the KGB scandal will see him end up in jail
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