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1 month ago | 
wired.jp | Darren Loucaides
2024年8月の暖かい土曜日、息子の1歳の誕生日を祝っていたラファエル・マイヨションのもとに、彼の情報筋のひとりからメッセージが届いた。フランスのテレビ局TF1の犯罪記者である34歳のマイヨションは、週末に法執行機関の関係者と連絡を取ることには慣れていた。連絡にはTelegramを使うことが多く、ほかのメッセージアプリよりも安全だと感じていた。その日は完全に仕事を離れ、パリから南へ2時間の田舎にある別荘で過ごしていたが、開けようとしていたシャンパンのボトルをいったん置いて携帯電話を確認せずにはいられなかった。 情報筋は、「アン・グロ・ポワソン（＝大物）」に関するニュースがあると伝えてきた。事実確認がとれれば、フランス国内だけでなく国際的にもトップニュースになるという。メッセージには「続報を待て！」とあった。...
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Darren Loucaides
“Back at home in the United States, the newspapers are saying that I came here today to speak to about 5,000 Nazis,” Robert F Kennedy Jr told a large crowd in Berlin. Estimated at 38,000 people, the crowd was a mix of hippies, anti-war types, Green party voters and anti-vaxxers, rubbing shoulders with a smattering of skinheads. It was late August 2020 and a group called Querdenken had rallied this motley crew together in defiance of Covid-19 restrictions. “Governments love pandemics,” Kennedy said.
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2 months ago | 
technewstube.com | Darren Loucaides
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2 months ago | 
wired.com | Darren Loucaides
On a warm Saturday in August of 2024, Raphaël Maillochon was celebrating his son’s first birthday when he got a message from one of his sources. Maillochon, a 34-year-old crime reporter for the French broadcaster TF1, was used to contacts in law enforcement pinging him on the weekend. They liked Telegram, which they felt was more secure than other messaging apps.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
rollingstone.com | Darren Loucaides
October 31, 2024 Protesters throw stones at police after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024 in Southport, England.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Darren Loucaides
4 hours agoBlackRock CEO Issues Stark Fed Warning Amid $3.3 Trillion Bitcoin Price PredictionBitcoin and crypto prices have surged over the last week, helped by growing expectations of a huge China stimulus bombshell.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Darren Loucaides
Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram's alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Darren Loucaides
On 30 July, a large group gathered outside Southport mosque in Merseyside. The day before, an assailant had entered a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the town and stabbed several children and two adults. Three of the young victims died. Owing to the age of the suspect, police could not immediately identify him, but online speculation was rife that he was an undocumented Muslim immigrant. In response, the crowd began to direct its anger towards the mosque, hurling bricks and rocks.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Gabija Steponenaite |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides
The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it. We highlight examples from around the world of states censoring films that show them in a bad light and pushing narratives that help them to scrub up their reputation, as well as lending a voice to those who use cinema as a form of dissent.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides
There is a tendency to see Russia as a huge monolithic entity with a matching ideology. This is the expansionist, imperial Russia that poisons its enemies and kidnaps their children. It is the Russia of the gulags, of Putin, Stalin and the Tsars. But there is another Russia. It is the Russia of the eight brave students who stood in Red Square in 1968 to demonstrate against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and inspired the founders of this magazine.
