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Putin’s Ukrainan nexus: Who’s Who? And what’s coming next…

Kiev, October 4, 2021 by Ivan Verstyuk Relations between Russia and Ukraine have never been easy. Since independence, Ukraine and its territory have been the focus...

Were we right all along about Facebook? Probably

Vienna, October 7, 2021 (updated 20/10/21 by Edward Steen Secretary-General Mark Zuckerberg is facing a Waterloo of his own making - the testimony on Capitol Hill...

Fourth Estate hits back with mega-investigation

Vienna, October 3, 2021 (updated 05/10/2012) by ES, Secretary-General The biggest data leak in history - 11.9m files from companies hired by wealthy clients to create...

Trolling – it’s mostly about money and spite

Vienna, September 26, 2021 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General Trolling is about political manipulation. Troll-farms in North Macedonia and elsewhere serve, or served, both Trump and Vladimir...

Bulgarian Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views

It's not everyday that a Facebook network pushing disinformation involves a Spanish-language telenovela. Βυ Jordan Liles * Image via Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A network of Bulgarian Facebook pages with hints...

Kabul – dark “new normal” for journalists and freedom

London, August 20, 2021 by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative Afghan journalists and other media workers are among those in greatest danger of violent reprisals...

Messing with people’s heads on vacc policy

(es) Vienna, July 29, 2021 It is no longer politically correct to use the word "gullible", and there are no doubt some who believe it's...

Pegasus scandal: Orban in electronic tangle

Budapest/ Vienna. Updated August 11, 2021 by Edward Steen, AEJ sec-gen Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has become the first European leader to be challenged to...

Spiegel interview with FT editor Roula Khalaf

(es) London/ Vienna July 26, 2021 The FT's first woman editor gave this remarkable  interview with Der Spiegel prior to discovering she had been one of...

How the Pegasus scandal was broken

(ES) Vienna. July 22, 2021 The Pegasus state-hacking scandal, which has sent shockwaves across the world, was broken by a consortium of 17 different...

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