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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"The new analysis provides the first indication that a UAE government agency placed the military-grade spyware on a phone used by someone in Khashoggi’s inner circle in the months before his murder." washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…
"Following The Post’s report in July, NSO Group chief executive Shalev Hulio said a thorough check of the firm’s client records showed none had used Pegasus to attack the phones of Khashoggi or Elatr before a Saudi hit team murdered him in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018."
So many levels to this tragedy
Patriarchy summed up > “Walk with us quietly and behave,” the man whispered. washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

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12 Dec
1/ Thread. This is a rant about the Qatar has no 'football culture' argument. It keeps rearing its head but it is a fundamentally prejudiced and orientalist line of reasoning, and an arrogant fiction. Read on for some thoughts > #FIFArabCup #Qatar2022
2/ Firstly, no one needs to prove that there IS a 'football culture' in Qatar. People in the Middle East have enjoyed and played football for decades. People in Qatar play football, people here enjoy football, they have done for years, end of story. #Qatar2022
3/ There are club, leagues, school teams, fans, merchandise, regulatory bodies etc That’s just a fact
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10 Dec
[Thread] 1/ This is an update on the #DoNotComply and #DoNotComplyEver hashtag. Both began trending again when mandatory mask wearing was introduced after the discovery of the Omicron variant. Since my last thread, I analysed approx 26000 tweets, between 5th -10th December Image
2/ In the following thread I will discuss

a) who the main influencers are
b) the salient political communities promoting the hashtag
c) any potentially unusual elements to the hashtag

Read on for more.

#OmicronVariant #Omicron
3/ Firstly, influencers. As with my previous thread, the British actor @LozzaFox remains the most influential account spreading the 'Do Not Comply message'. His posturing tweet of December 8th was retweeted almost 2k times, and liked around 8k times. #omicron #FridayFeeling ImageImageImage
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5 Dec
Some Pew statistics on acceptance of homosexuality across the world (left is 2019 right is 2019). In the Middle East highest numbers of acceptance are in Israel, Turkey & Lebanon ( although generally very low). Turkey is higher than Russia & Ukraine though pewresearch.org/global/2020/06…
right is 2013*
Some general correlates. Younger, more educated people tend to be more accepting of homosexuality, as do those in wealthier and more developed countries. Those who identify as religious and right wing less likely to be accepting pewresearch.org/global/2020/06…
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30 Nov
🧵1/ This thread is a Twitter analysis of various disinformation tropes, conspiracies and attempts to undermine public trust in the existence of #Omicronvariant. It's an analysis of around 25000 tweets, retweets and replies taken from the past 3 days. Read on for weirdness
2/ In order to generate the network, I searched for a few repeating conspiracies & pieces of disinformation I identified when searching Twitter for prime #Omicron content. Some search terms I used included 'fake variant', 'ghislaine maxwell', & a misleading tweet about Australia
3/ I'll walk through the network graph. The highlighted cluster below shows people retweeting a tweet from @TheMarcitect . His tweet, RT +21k times wrongly said ppl unvaccinated could not enter Australia. He then conspiratorial states the #omicron 'narrative' falls apart
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28 Nov
📢🧵[Thread] 1/ Here is a thread on the #DoNotComply hashtag, a Twitter trend that started yesterday in reaction to the UK's response to the new Covid19 variant #Omicron. Essentially it is people rejecting the mandatory wearing of masks in public. I will highlight some nuggets...
2/ First up, I analysed around 17,500 tweets, replies, & retweets on the #donotcomply hashtag. The sample range is the last 24 hours. I did a network analysis to determine a few things, most importantly, identifying the most influential proponents of the 'do not comply' hashtag
3/ There is clear evidence of polarisation. There are two distinct clusters. On the right there is a large group of accounts generally condoning the #donotcomply hashtag. The group on the left is disappointed at the group on the right (pun kind of intended...you'll see why)
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23 Nov
🧵1/ Here's an intriguing thread showing overlap between Gulf and British politics. In particular, it shows how the @LaylaMoran and @CrispinBlunt issue is being used as a means by social media accounts as propaganda attack the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar . #disinformation Image
2/ First, context. @LaylaMoran & @CrispinBlunt recently admitted that they did paid non-MP related work from their official offices. The Saudi connection, the work involved attending a zoom panel arranged by Bindmans LLP about political prisoners in Saudi. bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
3/ This is technically a breach of House of Common rules. Anyway, the fact the panel raised issued of human rights violations in Saudi has prompted a predictable nationalist backlash on Twitter. However, some are using it as an opportunity for propaganda and disinformation >
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