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All But One of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet Ministers Used Private Email – Why?
Suella Braverman has returned to the Home Office following her resignation last week over her use of private email – but Iain Overton reports how using personal channels is a common occurrence among cabinet ministers
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‘How Will We Know Putin hasn’t Picked the Most Disruptive Candidate?’
Security experts and democracy campaigners raise fears over wild west Conservative leadership election if it goes to members, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead: Transformation or Collapse
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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The Men Who Want a ‘Paper Abortion’
Discussions of so-called ‘financial abortions’ – to cut ties with unwanted children – are on the rise in men’s rights circles. But what is this weird trend and what does it tell us about misogyny? Sian Norris reports
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How Russia Feeds the Factory of Unthinking
From Ukrainians being mainly Jewish to allegations of black magic, hypnotism and colonising Africa, Oleksiy Pluzhnyk explores the Kremlin’s exploitation of the conspiratorial mindset
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More than Half of Incels Support Paedophilia, Finds New Report
Research by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has found widespread acceptance of sexual violence against children in ‘incel’ communities
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Can the Milk Tea Alliance Take Its Fight Offline?
In Asia, a new movement for democracy has been gaining strength – but how can it enact change on the ground when it comes to corruption and authoritarianism?
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The Memes Fighting Russian Propaganda
Chris Hamill-Stewart explores how a decentralised network of meme-makers is subverting Putin’s online trolls
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Online Propaganda: A Gateway into the ‘Pro Russian Ecosystem’
Matt Bernardini investigates the influential academic website Swiss Policy Research which claims to expose ‘geopolitical propaganda’ but seems more intent on spreading it
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‘The Grooming Agenda’: Social Media Companies Accused of Amplifying LGBTIQ Hate
Facebook and Twitter are both failing to deal with hateful allegations that the LGBTIQ community is grooming children, as the far and mainstream right join forces
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Kenya Elections: Have Social Media Companies Learnt from Past Mistakes?
Harvey Pitt looks at the role social media has played in Kenya’s 2022 election and finds that the social media giants are failing to learn from the errors of the past
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Content Creating Over Policy Making: The Next Instagram Prime Minister
Sascha Lavin explores how branding beats ideas in the Tory leadership election
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The Battle to be New Prime Minister Will be Fought and Won Online
Ian Lucas explains how the Conservative Party leadership contenders will use the online space to drum up support – with a warning for the safety of our democracy
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How the Tentacles of Palantir Continue to Encircle the NHS
Max Colbert explores the implications of the tech firm’s ever-expanding role in British healthcare
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The World Needs ‘Rapid Climate Cooling’ as 2℃ Overshoot Now Likely, New Research Warns
Scientists are warning that the climate situation is so dire that we will not only need to withdraw carbon from the atmosphere but begin exploring controversial solar geoengineering technologies to cool the planet, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Why does the Government Need to Collect More Data on ‘Ghost Children’?
Grassroots groups are raising concerns that clause 48 of the Schools Bill will be used to penalise families, reports Karam Bales
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Werleman’s Worldview: Does Twitter Want to be Complicit in Indian Muslim Genocide?
CJ Werleman’s Twitter account has been banned in India, along with a number of other prominent journalists. Why is the social media giant complying with the Modi regime’s requests?
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Law-Makers Must Wake Up to the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act will allow the creeping increased use of AI by law enforcement agencies to continue, reports Catherine Connolly
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What Is Being Misconstrued About the Banks v Cadwalladr Case
Sam Bright unpicks the spin surrounding the high-profile defamation case
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Labour Members Left in Dark Over Data Breach
Max Colbert reveals a lack of transparency from the party over a significant ransomware attack last year
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What Depp v Heard Tells Us About Toxic Fandom
Networked harassment, parasocial relationships and good old fashioned misogyny have all turned a domestic abuse into a spectator sport as part of the #MeToo backlash, says Sian Norris
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Mainstreamed White Supremacy Sits Behind Social Media Hate of Kamala Harris
A new report reveals the horrifying abuse sent on Twitter to America’s first woman of colour Vice President – but such racist hate is becoming normalised in the US
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The Punditocracy and the Subversion of Progress
How is the modern media environment emboldening people who want to destroy popular social justice campaigns for their own personal gain?
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British Politics is Now Awash with Money and Social Media – Do We Care?
Former Labour MP Ian Lucas explores how digital campaigning and Big Tech has driven a coach and horses through the UK’s historically robust electoral rules
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Hancock Meeting with Tech Giants That Won £1.3 Billion in COVID Contracts Declared 21 Months Late
Sascha Lavin reports on a very belated update to the Department of Health and Social Care’s record of meetings held during the pandemic
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‘Wipe Jews Off the Face of the Earth’: Racism and Antisemitic Slurs of Viral YouTuber Exposed
A recording exclusively obtained by Byline Times exposes YouTuber and Infowars alumnus Paul Joseph Watson using racist, homophobic and antisemitic slurs
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US Justice Department Case Against Paul Manafort Re-Opens Trump Campaign’s Ukraine, Russia and Cambridge Analytica Connections
As the US Justice Department sues pardoned Paul Manafort over undisclosed foreign banks accounts, Zamaan Qureshi follows the financial links with Putin’s oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a Russian intelligence agent
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Government Refusing to Release Documents Related to Meeting Between Boris Johnson and Cambridge Analytica
The Foreign Office is withholding information about the Prime Minister’s meeting with the defunct data firm in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, Sam Bright reports
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Why Porn in the House of Commons Is No Laughing Matter
Barrister Gareth Roberts explains why an addiction to pornography should be taken as seriously as those dangerously reliant on alcohol or drugs
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The Mail Order Bride Sites Exploiting War in Ukraine to Find Women
In an exclusive undercover investigation, Sian Norris discovers how websites advertising mail order brides are using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to drum up business
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Government Stalling on Releasing Boris Johnson WhatsApp Messages
Iain Overton reports on attempts by campaigners to force greater transparency from the Government on the Prime Minister’s use of private messaging apps
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Why is ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ Still on Facebook?
A Byline Times investigation reveals that Aleksandr Dugin is still sharing conspiracy theories and disinformation with his thousands of followers
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Down Vladimir Putin’s Disinformation Rabbit Hole
Steven Lacey speaks to Sian Norris about why he fell for pro-Putin disinformation – and how open conversation and debate helped him escape out of the rabbit hole
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The ‘Big Power Off’ and the Importance of Fact-Checking
Katherine Denkinson explores the genesis of the protest against rising fuel costs and the media’s unwitting part in promoting untruths
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Why I’m Scared To Open Instagram Message Requests
A new report by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has found women are being targeted with misogynistic abuse on Instagram’s direct message function – something Sian Norris knows all too well
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How the French Far-Right Is Copying the Digital Campaigning Tricks of Brexit
A new report into Eric Zemmour’s social media in the run-up to the French elections shows how Britain’s Leave campaigns during the EU referendum created a controversial template
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‘De-Nazification’ and Putin’s Disinformation War
Using an example of local vigilante violence in Ukraine and its exploitation by Putin’s propaganda machine, Max Colbert explores Russian disinformation techniques
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Our Future is Being Gambled On by a Government in Blissful Ignorance
‘A’ level students Thomas Heath and Tom Marshall expose the Department for Education’s data-free approach to the impact of COVID-19 on learning
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Putin’s Willing Disinformation Agents
When it comes to war in Ukraine, Putin has found left and right-wing figures willing to spread his propaganda, as Dr David Grimes explains
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I Spent Years Imploring the Conservatives to Investigate Russian Interference. They Didn’t Listen
As a Labour MP investigating disinformation, Ian Lucas saw first-hand the Government’s attempts to duck the question of Russia
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Brexit was a Victory for British Putinism – Why were those who Got It Right Vilified?
Anthony Barnett details what he has learnt from the work of journalists such as Carole Cadwalladr and Byline Times’ co-founder and executive editor Peter Jukes about the threat to British democracy hiding in plain sight
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The First Great Information War
The Observer and Guardian journalist explains how the Russian President Vladimir Putin won the first phase of his war on Europe, by convincing us it wasn’t happening
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Conspiracy and Paranoia: Putin’s Far-Right Cheerleaders
The Russian President’s anti-NATO, anti-EU, anti-gender stance has won him support over Ukraine from far-right and populist-right actors
