Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
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Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
“Ukraine played a role.” Once again Russian disinformation networks are weaponising an attempt on the life of a US President
Robinson has been blamed for stoking the unrest, but the tentacles of disinformation are global. Nafeez Ahmed uncovers a worrying nexus of tech platforms and far-right conspiracy – with links to Europe, Russia and the January 6 insurrection
A landmark study on the LTN policy finds that Government figures have latched onto cynical fear-mongering
Meet the former government officials and intelligence operatives at the heart of New Lines as investigative journalist Alan MacLeod sheds light on the “independent” think tank’s true agenda and motivations.
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Byline Times has spotted four more instances of questionable data collection by parliamentary candidates. Can you help this newspaper find more?
The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work. Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the […]
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Help Byline Times follow the dark money and track the dirty data as millions are spent on online political campaigning this election year
Another federal government program to fight foreign disinformation falls flat.
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