Nesrine Aly
@nesrinealy.bsky.social
Oxfam Global News Manager | Oxford Internet Institute graduate | Believe in the value of independent journalism, the power of news, and the importance of an informed public | Views are mine
No words. We are watching in HD and on slow-motion an extermination of an entire popoulation, the violation of every human right, every freedom and every international law was put to preserve these, all while doing nothing. What cruel world we live in?
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Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’
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August 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No words. We are watching in HD and on slow-motion an extermination of an entire popoulation, the violation of every human right, every freedom and every international law was put to preserve these, all while doing nothing. What cruel world we live in?
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World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
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World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.
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June 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
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Protesters in Venice are telling Bezos: "If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax" —a reflection of the simmering anger not just about overtourism, but the richest 1%.
Venice prime wedding spot, braces for a Bezos marital extravaganza
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Venice prime wedding spot, braces for a Bezos marital extravaganza
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Venice, prime wedding spot, braces for a Bezos marital extravaganza
In Venice, a romantic backdrop of weddings for centuries, the marriage of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez is providing an economic windfall and stirring protest.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Protesters in Venice are telling Bezos: "If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax" —a reflection of the simmering anger not just about overtourism, but the richest 1%.
Venice prime wedding spot, braces for a Bezos marital extravaganza
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Venice prime wedding spot, braces for a Bezos marital extravaganza
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Wow, incredible: we were 110 000 drawing a #redline for #Gaza in Brussels today! ✊🏽🇵🇸
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow
June 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wow, incredible: we were 110 000 drawing a #redline for #Gaza in Brussels today! ✊🏽🇵🇸
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow
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📽️ WATCH: This map visualises #Gaza’s systematic erasure.
Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has issued nearly one displacement order every two days.
Find out more 👉 oxf.am/3Hbshlz
#CeasefireNow #SaveGaza
Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has issued nearly one displacement order every two days.
Find out more 👉 oxf.am/3Hbshlz
#CeasefireNow #SaveGaza
May 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📽️ WATCH: This map visualises #Gaza’s systematic erasure.
Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has issued nearly one displacement order every two days.
Find out more 👉 oxf.am/3Hbshlz
#CeasefireNow #SaveGaza
Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has issued nearly one displacement order every two days.
Find out more 👉 oxf.am/3Hbshlz
#CeasefireNow #SaveGaza
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Over 100,000 people joined a red line protest in The Hague — the largest in 20 years — organised by Oxfam Novib, demanding the Dutch government end support for Israel’s war on Gaza. As PM Schoof stays silent, we drew the line.
#RedLineForGaza #CeasefireNow
#RedLineForGaza #CeasefireNow
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Over 100,000 people joined a red line protest in The Hague — the largest in 20 years — organised by Oxfam Novib, demanding the Dutch government end support for Israel’s war on Gaza. As PM Schoof stays silent, we drew the line.
#RedLineForGaza #CeasefireNow
#RedLineForGaza #CeasefireNow
The government, instead of surreptitiously cutting the brake cables on the technological car, it should be working to strengthen security and privacy of the technology that forms the nervous system of our world
The war on encryption is dangerous - on.ft.com/4kBAyyo via @FT
The war on encryption is dangerous - on.ft.com/4kBAyyo via @FT
The war on encryption is dangerous
Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft
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March 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The government, instead of surreptitiously cutting the brake cables on the technological car, it should be working to strengthen security and privacy of the technology that forms the nervous system of our world
The war on encryption is dangerous - on.ft.com/4kBAyyo via @FT
The war on encryption is dangerous - on.ft.com/4kBAyyo via @FT
Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’ - on.ft.com/3QIxItF via @FT
Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’
Generative AI is a tempting short-cut that can prevent those at university from gaining foundational skills
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March 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’ - on.ft.com/3QIxItF via @FT
A sombre analysis of the risks of Muskism! Really worth reading! claireberlinski.substack.com?utm_source=n...
The Cosmopolitan Globalist | Claire Berlinski | Substack
Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal de...
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February 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A sombre analysis of the risks of Muskism! Really worth reading! claireberlinski.substack.com?utm_source=n...
The US aid freeze has exposed the fragility of a multilateral system so dependent on one country.
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Inklings | What story will humanitarians tell in a Trump world?
Notes on where USAID’s dismantling leaves aid freeze waivers, who’s calling the shots, and what’s the humanitarian narrative on the future of aid?
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February 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The US aid freeze has exposed the fragility of a multilateral system so dependent on one country.
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Well said!
Gaza is home to the 2.2 million Palestinians who have suffered widespread bombardment and a cruel siege for 15 months.
It is not a place for Israeli settlements or American imperial adventures.
It is not a place for Israeli settlements or American imperial adventures.
Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move
The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Well said!
A sobering example of the inherent bias in AI. Humans shape technology. Those with the power and resources will define what AI says or does. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government
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January 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A sobering example of the inherent bias in AI. Humans shape technology. Those with the power and resources will define what AI says or does. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Interesting!
Deepseek deep-sixes tech stocks. Nvidia falls 10% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/n...
Nvidia falls 10% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million.
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January 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Interesting!
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President Trump will be a leader of and for billionaires.
Our country and the world today are extremely unequal; for too long, big corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system in their own favor, at the expense of ordinary families.
Our country and the world today are extremely unequal; for too long, big corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system in their own favor, at the expense of ordinary families.
January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
President Trump will be a leader of and for billionaires.
Our country and the world today are extremely unequal; for too long, big corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system in their own favor, at the expense of ordinary families.
Our country and the world today are extremely unequal; for too long, big corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system in their own favor, at the expense of ordinary families.
"In his second term, President Trump, backed by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, will once again be a president of and for billionaires."
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President Trump to be a leader “of and for billionaires,” — Oxfam
Ahead of today’s inauguration of President Donald Trump, Oxfam America President and CEO Abby Maxman released the followin
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January 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"In his second term, President Trump, backed by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, will once again be a president of and for billionaires."
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Oxfam's recent report speaks to the insane concentration of wealth and power.
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Opinion | Inauguration Day: The pinnacle of a Second Gilded Age
With a second Trump term comes a greater concentration of wealth and power.
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January 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Oxfam's recent report speaks to the insane concentration of wealth and power.
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It is unfathomable that while millions of people are facing famines, billionaires' wealth have surged 3 times faster than the year before. What cruel and inhumane economic system allows such deep global inequality?
PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, 3 times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990.
At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5.
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#WEF2025
At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5.
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#WEF2025
January 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It is unfathomable that while millions of people are facing famines, billionaires' wealth have surged 3 times faster than the year before. What cruel and inhumane economic system allows such deep global inequality?
@kschell.bsky.social really interested in your recent AI work! Could we chatgpt ? :) pls DM reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/key-ai-conce...
Key AI concepts to grasp in a new hybrid journalism era: transparency, autonomy, and authorship
When we bring generative AI into the news production cycle, we must grapple with a new understanding of autonomy and authorship, argues Austrian fellow Katja Schell.
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January 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@kschell.bsky.social really interested in your recent AI work! Could we chatgpt ? :) pls DM reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/key-ai-conce...
Fingers crossed peace prevails, and this political sadism ends!
Israel's cabinet approved a deal with Hamas for a ceasefire and release of hostages in the Gaza Strip reut.rs/4hfDUo4
Israeli cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire accord, due to take effect Sunday
After meeting for more than six hours, the Israeli government ratified the agreement that could pave the way for an end to the 15-month-old war in the Palestinian enclave, which Hamas controls.
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January 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fingers crossed peace prevails, and this political sadism ends!
In contexts like wars, outbreaks and elections, the threats of deepfakes and misinformation could mean life or death.
"The biggest loss will be faced by countries’ information ecosystem"
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"The biggest loss will be faced by countries’ information ecosystem"
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Amid war, vicious attacks and political turmoil, global fact-checkers fear the impact of the end of Meta’s programme
Fact-checkers from Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Nigeria, Ukraine and the Philippines explain the potential effects for their revenue and their news ecosystem.
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January 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In contexts like wars, outbreaks and elections, the threats of deepfakes and misinformation could mean life or death.
"The biggest loss will be faced by countries’ information ecosystem"
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
"The biggest loss will be faced by countries’ information ecosystem"
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When this is #Russia or #Sudan, the entire EU and American blocks fire sweeping sanctions and other measures to hold the perpetrators to account. But no, not Israel. Why?
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has defended his decision to bring war crimes allegations against Israel's prime minister, saying Israel had made ‘no real effort’ to investigate the allegations itself reut.rs/3E92CYZ
ICC prosecutor sees 'no real effort' by Israel to probe alleged Gaza war crimes
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has defended his decision to bring war crimes allegations against Israel's prime minister, saying Israel had made "no real effort" to investigate the allegations itself.
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January 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The concentration of extreme wealth and power threatens the ideals of democracy and freedom of speech on which modern democracies were built.
"The free press is crumbling, and social media is giving up on fact-checking".
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"The free press is crumbling, and social media is giving up on fact-checking".
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Joe Biden warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address
President sounds alarm about growing power of ultra-wealthy before handing presidency back to Trump
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January 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The concentration of extreme wealth and power threatens the ideals of democracy and freedom of speech on which modern democracies were built.
"The free press is crumbling, and social media is giving up on fact-checking".
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The free press is crumbling, and social media is giving up on fact-checking".
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