Indian media environment is horrendous right now. “Rumor Scanner revealed that 72% of the accounts spreading fake and misleading information about communal violence in Bangladesh claimed to be based in India, with over 154 million views across 50 accounts.”m.thewire.in/article/commun…

One anecdote I'll share that tells you a lot about Benny Johnson as a person is that at IJR, he cried the day two CBS-Roanoke reporters were murdered. Not because of the actual shooting, but because we told him he wasn't allowed to post the video of the murder on the website.

imagine this happens to you and your school makes new rules specifically to shut you up

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

These guys keep saying variations of "No, no. Don't misunderstand us. We want to kill every Palestinian. And so does everyone we know."

I'm an Israeli, like those two ('nice') individuals; all three of us grew up with a narrative that paints Gaza—just a few dozen kilometers from our home—not as a place of and for people but as a land of terror, tunnels & extremism, something hopeless to be caged and controlled 🧵

No, it's exactly the issue, Ben. When people are paying you $400k a month, which is more money than they have ever made before by far, they didn't wonder: Gee, who has that kind of money, and why are they spending it on me?

The people who convinced Senator Mike Lee to create his “based” Twitter account were the same people alleged to have “unwittingly” taken Russian disinfo money.

Begging for a world where one is not confronted by or compelled to reckon with every tech oligarch’s half-baked, self-aggrandizing thought about history, society, politics and culture

Two armed groups in Myanmar with close ties to China have the junta on the back foot. For the first time in three years of war, Mandalay seems within reach of anti-junta forces. Our analysis: economist.com/asia/2024/09/0…

A U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves to help recover the bodies of those killed by ISIS. The Iraqi government is ordering them to stop. In one of the most blatant cases of genocide — the murder of the Yazidi people might go unsolved. nyti.ms/4e9i984

This story by Ben Terris on serial plagiarist/far-right provocateur/Kremlin useful idiot Benny Johnson is terrific, but also a strange time capsule to a very different era of the internet (less than a decade ago!) when all sort of news stories routinely got millions of clicks.

Maybe it's just me. But I don't know a single Israeli who would underwrite that statement

These are text messages, exactly as they were written and sent, between a mother and her two daughters during yesterday’s shooting at Apalachee High School. The family shared the texts with The Washington Post. Both daughters were unharmed and now safe.

Biden, if you really want to understand Netanyahu, listen to what he says in Hebrew haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Argentine news outlets are reporting on a rumor that a person who paid 85,000 dollars to look like an elf (known as "Elfo") has access to scandalous material collected by one of Javier Milei's legislators. This has led to headlines like "The elf who keeps Milei's darkest secrets"

I took Scott's seminar in college. A towering intellect, soft-spoken, wise, brimming with empathy. His skepticism of power was only eclipsed by his love of humanity. RIP thenation.com/article/societ…

Novak is now subject to a torrent of abuse from both Israeli officials and within Israel

A 26 year old American peace activist was just shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank