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The Atlantic Stole My Work
Read more: The Atlantic Stole My WorkThe publication refuses to credit me after copying whole sentences and paragraphs from a freelance pitch I sent to reporter Natasha Bertrand. (This item was edited by Atlanta, GA investigative blogger Peter M. Heimlich.) Here’s an excerpt from Bertrand’s article, “The Enigmatic Russian Paying Maria Butina’s Legal Bills,” published March 20, 2019 on the Atlantic’s…
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Duped Hollywood Celebrities Back in the News After Russian Disinformation Report
Read more: Duped Hollywood Celebrities Back in the News After Russian Disinformation ReportA Russian propaganda campaign that recruited famous actors through pay-for-videos site Cameo is the subject of a new article by Business Insider. The article follows on the heels of a joint report published last week by Graphika and Stanford Internet Observatory. Both pieces cited an article I co-bylined, “How Russia Tried to Weaponize Charlie Sheen,”…
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Facebook Removes Kremlin-Linked Accounts That Pushed For Release of Russian Operative Maxim Shugaley
Read more: Facebook Removes Kremlin-Linked Accounts That Pushed For Release of Russian Operative Maxim ShugaleyThe accounts were part of a successful campaign to free Shugaley from a Libyan prison after he was arrested on election-meddling charges. Via “Stoking Conflict by Keystroke: An Operation Run by IRA-Linked Individuals Targeting Libya, Sudan, and Syria” by Shelby Grossman, Khadeja Ramali, Renée DiResta, Lucas Beissner, Samantha Bradshaw, William Healzer, and Ira Hubert, Stanford…
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Rupert Murdoch-Owned Tabloid Retracts Article That Shamed NY Paramedic For Selling Nude Photos During Pandemic
Read more: Rupert Murdoch-Owned Tabloid Retracts Article That Shamed NY Paramedic For Selling Nude Photos During Pandemic“HEARTS RACING: Paramedic is ‘making ends meet’ by sharing XXX-rated pics on OnlyFans,” read the now-deleted Dec. 12 headline, published on The Sun’s website. The article, by reporter Danielle Cinone, detailed the online exploits of 23-year-old Lauren Caitlyn Kwei, a paramedic from New York who began selling nude photos on subscription content website OnlyFans to…
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Facebook Mislabels Historically Accurate Posts by Gay Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell as “Partly False”
Read more: Facebook Mislabels Historically Accurate Posts by Gay Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell as “Partly False”Tatchell correctly identified Henry Kissinger as the architect of an illegal U.S. bombing campaign that potentially killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians. Facebook’s fact-checkers disagreed. Update, November 24, 2020: Facebook has removed its disclaimer from Tatchell’s posts, but did not return a request for comment. British gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has long been a…
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Danny Trejo Recruited in Russian Propaganda Campaign
Read more: Danny Trejo Recruited in Russian Propaganda CampaignTrejo is the latest Hollywood celebrity to make headlines in Russia after recording a video in support of a notorious Russian political operative. The celebrities are seemingly being recruited through the pay-for-videos site Cameo. Charlie Sheen, Dolph Lundgren, and Vinnie Jones appeared in their first ever film together last month, when an obscure Russian YouTube channel…
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39 Satirical Images of Indian PM Scrubbed From Buzzfeed
Read more: 39 Satirical Images of Indian PM Scrubbed From BuzzfeedTwo BuzzFeed listicles poking fun at Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have been scrubbed following a 2018 legal threat. Update, October 16, 2020: In a comment, BuzzFeed said that the most recent removals were not the result of further legal threats from Mumbai police, but the result of updates to BuzzFeed’s old content. Here is…
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Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece
Read more: Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party MouthpieceThe ads comprise two videos from the Global Times defending China’s crackdown on political protests and attacking the Trump administration’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic. Update, August 28, 2020: The two Global Times ads have been removed from Facebook’s ad library. A message reads: “This ad is no longer available in the library. This…
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The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed Paper
Read more: The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed PaperPaid content from the Beijing Review included an article attacking western news outlets and defending China’s botched response to the coronavirus outbreak. source In April, I bylined a story in BuzzFeed News about how during the pandemic, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph continued to sell advertising space on its site to the People’s Daily Online,…
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Roger Stone’s Style Blog is Now a Spammy Marketing Site
Read more: Roger Stone’s Style Blog is Now a Spammy Marketing SiteStoneOnStyle.com was a fashion and politics blog run by Trump’s flamboyant campaign trickster. Now it’s used to promote hair loss treatments and online gambling. source In the midst of an ill-judged media blitz last year after being charged in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, it appears that Trump’s former campaign trickster Roger Stone either sold off…
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