Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices
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I stumbled across this, completely typical word usage today: The Somali government officially announced that it was starting a blockade. Same as the US blockade. Same as the Iranian blockade. So either it’s all piracy, or it’s all “boarding.” We have seen a constant refusal to call Palestinian children, children. The words “Israel killed” are […]
Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as 'citizen journalists', have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals
It soon becomes obvious that other media outlets source stories from Positive News. Would we do a podcast interview? Would we be interviewed for an English teaching magazine? Could The Guardian do a feature and interview some of the older women involved? Could Channel 5 News come up and film a jam session and talk to some women?
Julian Petley investigates what really motivates the German media mogul taking over Britain's leading conservative broadsheet
~by Sean Paul Kelley How does the way an individual perceives time affect the way they approach risk? And can the way individuals perceive time and risk be applied on a macro scale? Let’s take a look. Sociologist Phillip Zimbardo developed a five way typology of how individuals perceive time. People who inhabit certain zones […]
Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled
It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright
When Tessa MacKay first got in touch to suggest that we meet for a coffee and a chat, I did what everybody does these days and immediately fed her name into Google. What I discovered were some remarkable paintings, but also – and less remarkably – a creation entitled ‘Tessa Mackay’ whose talents, successes, ambitions and interests had been (to some extent) curated in the ‘experience machine’ that is the Worldwide Web.
As neologisms go, ‘enshittification’ is not the most efficient specimen. Unlike, say, ‘nearlywed’ or ‘broligarch’, it is neither wholly self-defining nor reminiscent of some other word to which it is related in meaning. Clearly the term has struck a chord: both the American Dialect Society and Macquarie Dictionary have bestowed word-of-the-year status on it in recent times. But what, specifically, is going to shit, and what are the processes by which it does so?