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The fake #Babchenko murder: @daithaigilbert sums up why fakery is never, ever a good idea.

news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Even well-intentioned fakes can go wrong. Remember the White Helmets' mannequin challenge? It's still being used to argue that they always fake their videos.

Hardly an interpretation that's made in good faith, but it's out there.

bellingcat.com/resources/arti…
Ill-intentioned fakes come back to haunt the perpetrator even more. Remember the Russian MoD's edited satellite pics "proving" that Ukraine shot down MH17, as exposed by @bellingcat and @ArmsControlWonk?

armscontrolwonk.com/archive/120163…
And what's going to happen next time a journalist is reported dead, anywhere in the world?

Like @RSF_inter said, nothing justifies faking a journalist's murder.

rsf.org/en/news/nothin…
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Thread, in the interest of there being a clear record:

Sputnik has made a number of false statements about me.

This matters, because facts still matter.

Evidence follows. Will a retraction follow too?

cc @SputnikInt
1. Sputnik said I have "no discernible history" in political journalism.

In fact, I was EU and NATO correspondent for @dpa_intl. That fact is discernible, because it's in my Atlantic Council bio.

atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/…
More: Sputnik +quoted+ my bio in the same article, and provided the link.

Looks like @SputnikInt either:

a) didn't read it;
b) didn't understand it;
or
c) chose to suppress a material fact.
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Ha, looks like I really pissed off the Kremlin "information weapon" (to quote its own editor-in-chief).

They hate it when someone reveals how they work by citing actual evidence.
Looks like this is what triggered them. @thetimes on the role of Sputnik's parent company, which is to "secure the interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."

Sputnik claims that doesn't apply to them. Seriously.

H/t @macca808

thetimes.co.uk/article/edinbu…
Source for that quote? The founding charter of the Rossiya Segodnya agency, which is Sputnik's parent.

Evidence here: medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
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Aaaand it's takedown time in #Bangladesh too.

@Twitter and @Facebook both just announced takedowns of a small number of inauthentic assets, possibly tied to state actors.

Some initial analysis with the great @karankanishk here, for @DFRLab:

medium.com/@DFRLab/electi…
Here's @TwitterSafety's take on it: a small number of assets, possibly state-linked.

15 accounts so far, low follower numbers, engaged in coordinated platform manipulation.

And here's @fbnewsroom: six accounts, nine pages. Taken down for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, i.e. a network of counterfeit accounts.

"Linked to individuals associated with the #Bangladesh government."

newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/t…
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@jack Dear Jack, there is not the "perception of #shadowbanning”, but the reality of it and much worse: The #suspension of many bona fide #Twitter-users, who do not troll, harass or engage in #hatespeech, but simply push a conservative agenda. This happened in the #US, #UK, FRA & #GER.
@jack 2. You now find many of those accounts on #GAB & users like #KoljaBonke, an author from #Frankfurt, who was suspended on #Twitter for giving daily updates about migrant #crime in #Germany (just posting articles or police reports). So content you find in a newspaper!
@jack 3. So Jack, this is NOT about perception, but your "conversational health work" is clearly just one sided #censorship, which many users have experienced for years, from the reality of #shadowbanning, to the many #suspensions! @nicolabeerfdp
#Twitter #Zensur
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Vice reviewed 4,099 police shootings in the 50 largest cities. Black people were *55%* of those shot and more likely unarmed. Here’s the police shootings rate by race. (1/x)
They find police shootings decreased over the past few years. Police departments that adopted DOJ reforms saw massive reductions: 32% fewer shootings in the *first year.* news.vice.com/story/shot-by-…
Cities that voluntarily adopted the DOJ reforms to policing policies had 32% fewer shootings, those that were mandated to reform had 25% fewer. The policies make a difference, period.
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