#InformationLaundering thread focusing on Cara Anna of @AP.
1/If there is a prize for #InformationLaundering, it would definitely go to Cara Anna of @AP. Miss Anna seems determined that the Tigray conflict is her ticket to a Pulitzer.
1/If there is a prize for #InformationLaundering, it would definitely go to Cara Anna of @AP. Miss Anna seems determined that the Tigray conflict is her ticket to a Pulitzer.
2/ Since the beginning of the conflict on November 4, @AP has produced 86 articles on #Ethiopia. Of these 86 articles, Cara Ana is responsible for a whopping 60% (51 articles). I randomly selected and analyzed 26 of her articles.
3/ All of her articles (100%!!!), portray the GoE negatively and 13 were sympathetic towards #TPLF. The remaining 10 articles conveniently leave out #TPLF out of the picture giving an appearance of the #Ethiopian government waging a war against the Tigrayan people.
4/ With regard to Nov 4, the three articles she wrote early in the war reported that the #TPLF attacked the Northern Command. Following their coverage of an email to @AP from a State Department spokesperson on January 27, she and @AP changed the narrative completely.
In all their subsequent reporting, they resorted to the now familiar phrasing ‘the war broke out when Abiy sent his troops claiming that the #TPLF attacked the base of the NC on November 4.’
5/The narrative Cara Anna pushed early in the conflict was that of massacres, ethnic cleansing and hunger. After the unilateral ceasefire, it shifted towards humanitarian blockade.
She describes the unilateral ceasefire as ceasefire only once and in at least six of her articles, she calls it a retreat/a defeat/a stunning reversal.
6/ In her articles published after the #TPLF invasion of #Amhara and #Afar, she consistently used the passive voice such as the conflict ‘expanded,’ ‘spilled,’ ‘reached.’
When she does talk about these #TPLF misadventures, she uses phrases such as: ‘Tigrayan forces entered Lalibela……..are pushing south….’ She also consistently justified the #TPLFs push as a push to ‘end the blockade against Tigray.
7/ In the articles I sampled, Cara Anna does not mention alleged atrocities committed by #TPLF in #Amhara and #Afar, including #MaikadraMassacre and #GalicomaMassacre. She never talks about #ChildSoldiers.
8/In terms of sources, in addition to officials of USAID, State Depratment and HR, CA relies on aid workers (39%), IDPs and ‘refugees’ in Sudan as well as Salsawi Tigray and #TPLF officials, Crisis Group and Alex de Waal’s WPF (52%).
The alleged Axum Massacre is a textbook example of #InformationLaundering. Based on phone conversations she had with unnamed 'survivors,' CA single-handedly manufactured 'a massacre of more than 800 people'.
@AmnestyEARO echoed her reporting after a few days and CA took to her column to echo-back @amnesty's 'independent findings.' there by completing this spectacular circle of #InformationLaundering!
9/ Cara Anna's headlines are loud and designed to evoke outrage and horor, with phrases such as ‘massacre,’ ‘famine,’ ‘bodies floating,’ ‘starvation,’ ‘lost limbs,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ ‘catastrophe,’ ‘suffocating Tigray,’……used very generously.
10/ Cara Anna is also curiously fond of referring to PM Abiy’s Nobel Prize which she mentioned in 26 of her 51 articles. It just makes you wonder why the obsession with prizes, Carra?
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