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Oct 18, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Shakilur Rahman |Ayush Bhattacharya |Manisha Ganguly |Prerona Jana
AbstractMelioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease, is caused by the deadly pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei and remains a significant global health concern, particularly in South Asia. The disease is contracted through exposure to contaminated soil, water, air, and food. Infected individuals often present with abscesses in internal organs such as the lungs, spleen, and liver, and in soft tissues, with severe cases leading to septic shock and acute pneumonia.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly
The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso. “We must support … President Ibrahim Traoré … Homeland or death we shall overcome!” he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly |Christopher Cherry |David Levene |Laurence Topham
Dictatorships around the world have used AI technology and fake newsreaders to create disinformation videos. In an exclusive interview for the Guardian, investigations correspondent Manisha Ganguly speaks to actor and model Dan Dewhirst who explains how he became the unwitting participant in a deepfake video for an authoritarian regime
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland | +3 more
This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 7 March 2024. For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. These deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
eldiario.es | Harry Levert Davis |Manisha Ganguly |David Pegg |Hoda Osman |Yuval Abraham |Bethan Mckernan
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Harry Davies |Manisha Ganguly |David Pegg |Hoda Osman |Yuval Abraham |Bethan Mckernan
Funeral ceremony for the Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem after they were killed in Gaza in November last year. Funeral ceremony for the Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem after they were killed in Gaza in November last year. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty ImagesAs Israel’s offensive in Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history, its military has repeatedly said it is not deliberately targeting the media.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harry Davies |Manisha Ganguly |David Pegg |Yuval Abraham |Bethan Mckernan
As Israel’s offensive in Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history, its military has repeatedly said it is not deliberately targeting the media. “There is no policy of targeting media personnel,” a senior official said, attributing the record number of journalists killed to the scale and intensity of a bombardment in which so many of Gaza’s civilians have died.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
msn.com | David Pegg |Hoda Osman |Manisha Ganguly
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | David Pegg |Hoda Osman |Manisha Ganguly
As Gaza City trembled to the sound of bombs, dozens of journalists made their way to a white-walled, two-storey building in the upmarket neighbourhood of Rimal. It was the morning of 8 October 2023, and the building was the home of Press House, a Palestinian non-profit organisation training and supporting journalists. Less than 24 hours earlier, Hekmat Yossuf, one of the group’s founders, phoned a colleague. “Get ready, we have to go to the office,” he said.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harry Davies |Manisha Ganguly
The commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is facing fresh embarrassment after it emerged that an extensive digital trail identifying him as a senior intelligence official has been exposed online for years. The Guardian revealed on Friday how Yossi Sariel, whose name had been protected by the Israeli state, inadvertently disclosed his identity online in a security lapse linked to a book published under a pen name in 2021.
