I began to observe a change of tone towards Israel in the last weeks. I asked Perplexity if this is really the case. This is how it answered: Recent Shifts in Western Media Coverage of Israel Summary of Change There has been a clear and noticeable shift in Western media coverage of Israel over the … Read more
In May 2025, a video clip of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a diplomatic train journey to Kyiv became the centerpiece of a viral disinformation campaign. The claim: the leaders were caught with cocaine on the table, attempting to hide evidence of drug use. … Read more
Pavel Bannikov is trying to build a multicountry GitHub repo with standardized OSINT collections for each country. The list already includes 24 countries. Feel free to join if you are interested https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 This project was inspired by @wddadk OSINT for Countries. Here you’ll find a GitHub-based collection of links to various OSINT tools, websites, and … Read more
It was my birthday yesterday, and I am 49 now. As my close friends know, I prefer my routine life. I am a bit stressed with non-routine days, and accordingly, I am not excited to celebrate my birthday at all. Still, it is good to be beloved, and I know that I have my people … Read more
The International Fact-Checking Network today released the annual State of the Fact-Checkers Report as part of activities marking International Fact-Checking Day on Wednesday, April 2. The report makes the case for fact-checking and explores trends in financial sustainability, partnerships, focus areas, collaborations, AI use in fact-checking newsrooms, staffing, community resilience, and more. You can view … Read more
Photojournalists of international organizations are arrested so that we cannot see what happens. But can they prevent reporting? Back to citizen journalism 101. In the meantime, I observed more motivation among the university students for further protests. Several journalists were detained during the protests in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. … Read more
It appears that CNN’s report on freeing a Syrian prisoner has come under scrutiny, though the network denies fabricating the story. Here’s a summary of the situation: The Original Report CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team visited a prison in Damascus, Syria, on December 11, 2024, shortly after the fall of Bashar … Read more
From groundbreaking news to financial struggles, learn about VICE’s bankruptcy filing. If you were tuned to pop culture in the 2010s, then you know that it was impossible to escape Vice. No, we don’t mean drinking, drugs, and partying, though that’s going to come up later in this video, don’t worry. We mean Vice, the … Read more
…because he is currently friendly to the some powers’ interests. Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the US’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist who used to run the now-dismantled Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.…
CPJ’s 2024 Global #ImpunityIndex spotlights the 13 countries with the worst records for prosecuting the murderers of journalists targeted in connection to their work over the past 10 years. Here is the report Israel In the most dangerous and unprecedented war for journalists CPJ has ever recorded, Israel has killed at least 126 journalists and media workers, … Read more
Sena and I produced a piece we had worked on before into publishable material. It portrays AI in newsrooms just before the rise of Generative AI. You can read the pre-print version here. Here is the abstract for Azimli, S. O., & Saka, E. (2024). Automated Journalism in Turkish Media Before the Rise of Generative … Read more
Bridging the gap between digital content creators and journalists: Knight Center and UNESCO publish pioneering e-book With 105 pages of interviews, research, first-hand accounts from news content creators like Dylan Page (aka News Daddy) and Kassy Cho (founder of Almost), illustrations and best practices, this unique open-access e-book published by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, in … Read more
The State of Fact-Checking: Key Takeaways from the Panel In the first panel of the POINT12, panelists covered the state of fact-checking. While these notes capture some critical discussions, it’s essential to acknowledge that the panel covered many more nuanced points and thought-provoking discussions, reflecting the complexity and urgency of the fact-checking mission. Angie Holan: … Read more
A journalism student from a different university asked me questions and expected written answers for his graduation thesis. I told him if I answered all these questions in a written form, I would write an essay about it. Sometimes, I receive questionnaires like this, which demand a significant amount of time. Hopefully, he will interview … Read more
The right-wing political establishment threatens the pride of Israeli journalism, Haaretz. I find it a bit strange that the Israeli state has relied on crude misinformation and a few sane voices are under attack. Well, it is such a familiar story…