Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻
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🚨 NEW with @madhumita29 & @Laura_K_Hughes: The government will tomorrow task *Ofcom* with policing online content, which will represent a fundamental re-casting of the broadcast regulator to become UK’s first internet watchdog.
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Who could have predicted — The UK government spent *£46 million* on the No Deal Brexit advertising billed as the biggest ad campaign since the war. Independent audit office says the cabinet could not demonstrably prove it was effective.
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2020 Democrats on Foreign Leaders
We asked the candidates about their favorite foreign leader.
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Which foreign leader do you admire?
Klobuchar: Angela Merkel
Warren: Angela Merkel
Steyer: Angela Merkel
Bloomberg: Emmanuel Macron
Yang: Justin Trudeau
Buttigieg: Jacinda Adern
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Facebook Won’t Do Anything To Stop Climate Deniers Capitalising On Australia’s Bushfire Crisis
Facebook's bushfire fact-checking efforts have mostly focused on misleading photos and videos. What about rampant climate denialism?
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Sometimes you need a test case that simply spells out what Facebook is doing to the information environment.
At the height of Australia's bushfire crisis, right-wing Facebook pages were turbocharged on climate-denialism.
This is the game.
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The new London-based CNN-competitor has a name and it’s “NBC Sky World News” — plans to hire 100-200 new journalists for roles
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Head of MI5 says UK intelligence agencies foiled six terror plots last year.
Half involved the far-right.
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"A Period Of Deep Self-Reflection": Channel 4 Bans Non-Political Journalists From Tweeting About Politics
The new policy came into force after a “number of errors” made by broadcast journalists across the industry — including that Boris Johnson "people of colour" tweet.
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NEW: “A period of deep self-reflection – Channel 4 News bans non-political journalists from tweeting opinions about politics
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'Brexit man' finally stops protest after two years in wake of Tory win
A political activist known as “Brexit man” has decided to stop protesting after two years in the wake of the Conservative Party's landslide election win. Steve Bray had become a well known figure outside Westminster for his persistent call to “stop...
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This has the real feeling of the army of the dead being finally released from their curse by Aragorn in return of the king
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Boris Johnson’s Campaign Was Behind A Press Complaint In A Bid To Stop Re-Publication Of The Viral NHS Boy Photo
A senior Conservative aide lodged the press complaint on behalf of the mother of the boy. It was later sent to the BBC and the broadcast regulator Ofcom.
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NEW: In the final days of the election campaign, Boris Johnson’s team orchestrated an official press complaint on behalf of the mother of the NHS-hospital boy.
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YouTube Will Ban Videos That “Maliciously Insult” People Based On Race, Gender Or Sex
The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian’s homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
The Guardian view on general election 2019: A fleeting chance to stop Boris Johnson in his tracks | Editorial
Editorial: The mood may be one of despair, but this election is critical to the country’s future. The best hope lies with Labour, despite its flaws
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🚨 The Guardian officially endorses Jeremy Corbyn: "Despite our misgivings, we believe that a vote for the Labour party offers the best hope for the country"
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Boris Johnson Mocked A Chinese Flight Attendant's Accent
Johnson quoted a flight attendant as saying "Velly solly".
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NEW: In 2003, as editor of the Spectator, Boris Johnson used a column to mock a Chinese flight attendant: “Prease sir”…. “Very solly" buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/… pic.twitter.com/kyp8q32xVC
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson Used The N-Word In A 2004 Comic Novel
Labour’s Diane Abbott said the choice of language proved Johnson had “deeply held racist views”.
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The passage from Boris Johnson’s novel where the now-prime minister uses the n-word in the introduction of an immigrant parking inspector.
buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/… pic.twitter.com/LOPVsu0sE0
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Reddit Believes A Post Sharing Secret Trade Documents That Were Later Used By Jeremy Corbyn Was Part Of A Russian Campaign
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn brandished 450 pages of unredacted trade documents last week.
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NEW: Reddit’s security team believes the user who posted secret US-UK trade documents which were later deployed during the UK election was working as part of a campaign originating from Russia.
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r/redditsecurity - Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit
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🚨 Huge. Reddit security team believes the Reddit post of leaked US-UK trade documents used by Jeremy Corbyn and Labour was part of a co-ordinated campaign coming from Russia
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British GQ Quietly Scrubbed China's President And Thailand's King From Its "Worst Dressed" List
The magazine’s parent company confirmed to BuzzFeed News they’d been removed over concerns of causing “unintended offence”.
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Scoop: Condé Nast in full damage control after British GQ named China’s President Xi Jinping and Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn on the magazine's annual list of the worst dressed men in the world.
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BBC - BBC announces leader interviews presented by Evan Davis - Media Centre
From Monday 13 April at 7.30pm on BBC One Newsnight host Evan Davis will conduct a series of in-depth, 30 minute interviews with party leaders starting on Monday 13 April. The interviews will probe the leaders, getting to understand the person,...
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Like here’s one.
Unsworth claims: "if we had to wait for confirmation of the date and time of every interview by every party before anyone appeared anywhere, hardly anything would get on air”
Here’s how the BBC announced the interviews in 2015.
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/la… pic.twitter.com/YgC3Ds003u
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Telegraph published same leaked trade documents as Corbyn, now claims it's “Russian disinformation”
They were leaked the documents in July.
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Great story: The Daily Telegraph splashed on claims the Corbyn dossier showed signs of an undercover Russian disinformation campaign. The Daily Telegraph’s reporters also already had the documents back *in July*
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Boris Johnson Will Face A Live TV Grilling From Phillip Schofield And Holly Willoughby
Johnson's commitment to take part in the interview on ITV's This Morning comes amid a fierce row over whether he will face the BBC's Andrew Neil.
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🚨 New with @alexwickham: As negotiations with BBC over facing Andrew Neil in prime-time drag on, Boris Johnson’s team confirm he'll sit with ITV’s Phil Schofield and Holly Willoughby before election day.
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Boris Johnson Won't Say How Many Children He Has After Being Criticised Over His Comments About Single Mothers
A single mother asked: "Why are you happy to criticise people like me, when you refuse to discuss your family?"
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Boris Johnson declines to answer how many children he has fathered, or whether he’s involved in their lives, after a single mother named Ruth confronted him about his past critical comments about children of single parents.
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