📢 🗞️ Published today: #DisarmingDisinformation🇺🇸 -

💡 86% of Americans have seen or heard journalists being harassed or abused online, indicating a normalisation of such attacks and reflecting unprecedented political targeting of the U.S. press.

Read the full study: www.icfj.org/disarming-di...

🔊 ❗️JUST PUBLISHED: Our first report from the Disarming Disinformation project, a five country (🇧🇷 🇬🇪 🇿🇦 🇵🇭 🇺🇸) study of journalistic responses and public perceptions. 🚀 First off the blocks is Brazil report, which should resonate strongly with 🇺🇸 journalists. www.icfj.org/news/disarmi...

This, from @bruceshapiro.bsky.social on another platform, is one of the most cogent reflections I’ve read from an American about that horrendous Oval Office “episode”. The second sentence resonates most acutely for me.

Back to the future. All over again. Dr Seuss’ 1941 cartoon seems ever more prescient.

Sending cheerful, hopeful vibes from the Cape of Good Hope [AKA the Cape of Storms] 🇿🇦 with @mariaressa.bsky.social & @dailymaverick.bsky.social’s Branko Brkic. Pinning this image, from a sunny Sunday Cape Town roadtrip, at the front of my mind to remind me what we’re fighting for in dark times.

“Violence takes the worst of us and peace takes the best of us”- Matthews Phosa, a key ANC official who negotiated the birth of South Africa’s democracy. “Mandela told us ‘Don’t be bitter - you must rise above your bitterness & pain…there must be a common victory for the negotiators.’” #WM12Assembly

At the #WM12Assembly in Johannesburg 🇿🇦, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social describes the Russian disinformation tactic of destroying the “psychological infrastructure” of democracy by seeding the desire for a strongman leader to “save us” from all the chaos and confusion (fed by the disinformation swamp)

Hello to all the new folks fleeing the Hell site of the #Broligarchy who have followed me here over the past five days. I’ve been largely lurking since I joined BlueSky, but it’s time to re-engage on a non-Meta platform because this is an era for anti-misogyny, anti-racism, pro-democracy solidarity

“Democracy and rules-based order are on the brink of collapse… truth is decaying, while disinformation and hate speech continue to spread. And independent journalism is under attack like never before” - Can Yeginsu in a clarion, sobering keynote speech at the OSCE in Vienna this afternoon.

NEW RESEARCH: Surveilled, ‘assassinated’ on social media, targeted by her president, and subjected to orchestrated trolling, Mexican investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui’s experience of #OnlineViolence signals an escalating threat #EndImpunity www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...