Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
Colourful #Tallin 🎨
📢 New publication alert!
Our paper looking at youth-government relations in post-2018 #Ethiopia is out.
Check it here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our brief explainer re the conflict in the #Amhara region of #Ethiopia >>> theconversation.com/ethiopias-ci...
"The drone attacks are horrific. But the government’s actions against those who speak about them have become more dreadful."
#Amhara #Ethiopia
www.thereporterethiopia.com/43155/
Word of the year 2024 from different sources: Brain rot, Polarization, Brat, Demure, Enshittification, Manifest, Bro-caster, Slop. Which one wins?
#Ethiopia’s Precarious Economic Reforms foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/19/e...
They fled in fear from a U.S. ally. So it went after their families. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
I make stupid little efforts to prevent the algorithm from figuring me out. For instance, whenever I come across a poll, I pick the opposite of what I think. Fight the power 🙃
I’ve started a Horn of Africa Starter Pack for those working/interested in that part of the world. Let me know who I’ve missed (and who can add). go.bsky.app/5fNZXxHt
#Ethiopia’s Agony: The Civil War that Never Really Ended
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/m...
Headless Chicken or Emergent Nation: #Ethiopia’s AI Prospects shega.co/news/headles...
"Still, Byrne had doubts re: the model because of the clear intimacy between American state policy and Meta’s content moderation policy. Meta’s censorship systems are “basically an extension of the government,” Byrne said in an interview." The details are 👁️ opening. theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...
Europe, as a whole, must take a hard look at itself.
Stop blaming social media for your own domestic internal problems.
To suggest TikTok, Facebook and YouTube are causing populist results at the ballot box is to negate voters' choices.
Insomnia that keeps awake just enough braincells to doomscroll, but not enough to do anything rewarding like read or watch a movie. Purgatory.
"Paid verification through Twitter Blue eroded the trust that had long underpinned the platform. What had once been a tool to verify credibility and authority became a subscription perk, opening the door to impersonation and misinformation."
Service providers: we'll give you a one percent discount if you give us your email address so we can spam you until the day you die.
Me: You've got yourself a deal 🤝
Comprehensive report re the civil war in #Amhara region of #Ethiopia. thereportermagazines.com/3399/
Meanwhile, Telegram is unleashing horror on women and girls in Ethiopia shega.co/news/hidden-...
The African Initiative is part of an opaque network of groups that Western officials and analysts say the Kremlin uses to boost Russia’s image — and tarnish that of Western countries — as it seeks to restore its influence in Africa.
Should we now be surprised if Agent Orange gets in the White House and pardons himself of all past, present, and future crimes? :-)
#Ethiopia: Suspension of three human rights organizations highlights growing crackdown on civic space www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Made in Ethiopia review – knotty study unpicks China’s industrial influence in Africa
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Cultural shift indeed >>> Side Hustles Take Root Across Ethiopian Universities
shega.co/news/side-hu...
Hi there! You're doing great with the updates and stories. It would even be better if you included links to the stories (or sources) so we can follow up on the ones we find interesting. Thanks.
The view through my window. I'm expecting to see white walkers come through at any moment :-) #Helsinki #GoT
None of the depravity and predation that goes on there surprises anymore. Just putting it out to stay sane.
Ethiopia: The Ethiopian government has banned two prominent local human rights organizations, the Center for the Development of Rights and Democracy (CARD) and the Group for Human Rights Ethiopia (AHRE).
