🧵Today's thread looks at the challenges facing journalists during war
1️⃣“You start making mistakes when you get tired. So, we have a responsibility as a company to try to rotate people out. The problem is that your judgment could fail,” says @mchancecnn washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/…
2️⃣“Nobody wants to see my emotion, it doesn’t matter – except to me. We’re here to report, and convey what’s happening here. There’s enough emotion in war already without adding more. We’re not trying to be heroes. It’s what we do," says @bbclysedoucettheguardian.com/media/2022/mar…
3️⃣Two more journalists have been killed covering the war in Ukraine. Camera operator Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova were part of a FoxNews team believed to have come under Russian shelling cpj.org/2022/03/attack…
4️⃣Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist whose anti-war protest was seen by millions on live TV, has said she was interrogated for 14 hours with no access to legal help. She was fined over £200. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
5️⃣@RSF_inter has condemned a 19-year-prison sentence given to a Crimean journalist, Remzi Bekirov, who was convicted of "organising a terrorist group" by a Russian military tribunal. rsf.org/en/news/russia…
6️⃣@jbenton highlights the incredible work of filmmaker Brent Renaud - killed a few days ago in Ukraine - who "died telling the stories of people caught up in some of humanity’s darkest situations" niemanlab.org/2022/03/celebr…
3️⃣½ Kuvsyhnova was described by Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott as "incredibly talented and spent weeks working directly with our entire team there, operating around the clock to make sure the world knew what was happening in her country." foxnews.com/media/ukrainia…
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2️⃣Highly popular Spanish Telegram channels which have pushed COVID-denialism and conspiracy theories "have mutated to become deniers of the Kremlin's attack on its neighbor," according to this investigation by @malditaen maldita.es/malditobulo/20…
"[People shouldn't] jump the gun and then say,
“This has happened, I'm gonna tweet this first.”
There's no benefit to that. It usually benefits the propagation of lies and propaganda," said @astroehlein
📱 Today's thread focuses on Marina Ovsyannikova’s brave protest and the ways women are resisting Putin #FreeMarinaOvsyannikova
1⃣Marina Ovsyannikova is a Russian state TV employee who interrupted a live broadcast with a 'no war' sign washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/…
2⃣ Marina Ovsyannikova posted a pre-recorded statement on social media after her on-air protest. Watch with English subtitles here. #FreeMarinaOvsyannikova
3⃣@EFJEUROPE has offered its full support for Ovsyannikova, who worked as an editor on the Russian Channel One.
Ovsyannikova has been arrested for violating the country's new ban on "disinformation" about Russian army operations europeanjournalists.org/blog/2022/03/1…
🤳Today's thread looks at how social media and influencers are being used in war.
1️⃣Russian TikTok influencers are being enrolled and paid to "promote a pro-Russian message about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine," reveals @daithaigilbert: vice.com/en/article/epx…
2️⃣“I would consider myself a White House correspondent for Gen Z,” says 18-year-old TikTok Ellie Zeiler, one of 30 such influencers briefed by the White House about the war in Ukraine, reports @TaylorLorenz washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
3️⃣A new study by the @ShorensteinCtr finds TikTok "presents a unique challenge for viewers attempting to decipher fact from fiction" through how videos can be easily reposted w/out attribution, ease of image manipulation, and hard-to-find metadata. mediamanipulation.org/research/tikto…
🇺🇦 Here is today's thread on the media aspect of the war ⬇️
1⃣ "We could face total eradication of independent media in Russia soon, especially after these unprecedented economic sanctions."
-Nadezhda Azhgikhina director of @pen_int Moscow europeanjournalists.org/blog/2022/03/0…
2⃣ RT has disappeared from UK broadcast platforms as a consequence of EU sanctions imposed on satellite companies. The culture secretary @NadineDorries has now asked Meta and TikTok to block the channel. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
3⃣ BBC websites have been 'blocked' in Russia, hours after the broadcaster announced the return of daily short-wave radio news bulletins in Ukraine and Russia. theguardian.com/media/2022/mar…
1️⃣ Our member @W7VOA from @VOANews highlighted how impacts of global warming are “appearing much faster, are more disruptive and more widespread” than expected voanews.com/a/scientists-s…