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In contemporary authoritarian regimes, the dictator doesn’t tend to ban opposition media outright. Often, regime affiliated elites take over key media companies and limit dissenting voices.
For example:
For example:
December 24, 2024 at 4:21 AM
In contemporary authoritarian regimes, the dictator doesn’t tend to ban opposition media outright. Often, regime affiliated elites take over key media companies and limit dissenting voices.
For example:
For example:
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My general overview of the post-Dec 8th picture. Next post will focus more specifically on SDF/SNA/Turkey developments: Manbij, Deir ez-Zour, civilian casualties, protests, Qamishli airstrikes etc.
akmckeever.substack.com/p/post-asad-...
akmckeever.substack.com/p/post-asad-...
Post-Asad Syria: the actors at play
Remaining questions and the general picture in the northeast
akmckeever.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:59 PM
My general overview of the post-Dec 8th picture. Next post will focus more specifically on SDF/SNA/Turkey developments: Manbij, Deir ez-Zour, civilian casualties, protests, Qamishli airstrikes etc.
akmckeever.substack.com/p/post-asad-...
akmckeever.substack.com/p/post-asad-...
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Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking
The communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames.
www.cip.uw.edu
December 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
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Must-read story from @reuters.com on Assad's final days in office and on how final officials began to flee Damascus. Incredible details.
by Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, @phreuters.bsky.social, and Suleiman Al-Khalidi:
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
by Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, @phreuters.bsky.social, and Suleiman Al-Khalidi:
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Must-read story from @reuters.com on Assad's final days in office and on how final officials began to flee Damascus. Incredible details.
by Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, @phreuters.bsky.social, and Suleiman Al-Khalidi:
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
by Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, @phreuters.bsky.social, and Suleiman Al-Khalidi:
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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it's been like a week since my last missile story and I didn't want to leave you hanging
(I have been working on this for months)
(I have been working on this for months)
How the U.S. plans to fortify Guam against China’s missile threat
An interceptor test marked a milestone in the $10 billion American plan to turn the Pacific territory into one of the most heavily defended places on earth.
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 AM
it's been like a week since my last missile story and I didn't want to leave you hanging
(I have been working on this for months)
(I have been working on this for months)
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“Rebel sources have told New Lines that there were several factors behind the regime’s implosion in Aleppo. One was the penetration of a high-level security meeting in Aleppo, during which an Iranian brigadier general & several Syrian officers were killed” newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo
New Lines reports exclusively on the details leading up to the city's stunning capture
newlinesmag.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM
“Rebel sources have told New Lines that there were several factors behind the regime’s implosion in Aleppo. One was the penetration of a high-level security meeting in Aleppo, during which an Iranian brigadier general & several Syrian officers were killed” newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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finally a reasonable take
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 PM
finally a reasonable take