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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-10 01:51:00

Rep. Luna Threatens Journalist With Prison For Posting... Public University Bio (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
techdirt.com/2026/01/09/rep-lu
memeorandum.com/260109/p139#a2

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-09 01:35:57

A US House committee votes to subpoena a journalist after he posted a biography of the alleged Delta Force leader who led the Caracas operation in Venezuela (The Washington Post)
wapo.st/3NzELX8

A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
directs the Justice Department and FBI to ❌compile a list of groups that may be labeled
“domestic terrorism” organizations
- based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein,
who joins us to discuss how it expands on Donald Trump’s "NSPM-7 directive" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
--…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-08 15:13:02

House Committee Subpoenas Journalist For Reporting On Commander Involved In Maduro Raid thedissenter.org/house-committ

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-10 21:15:49

Google Handed ICE Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers (Jessica Washington/The Intercept)
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/go
memeorandum.com/260210/p117#a2

@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2025-12-09 13:48:00

“Minst slechte variant”??
Wat een bullsh*t. Nou ja waarom zou je als journalist ook zelf nadenken als je je ‘werk’ ook kunt doen door slechts de hoofdrolspelers na te wauwelen ..
Formatie nu door in minst slechte variant: 'Ik hemel deze combinatie niet op'

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-01-09 17:37:09

Why Spain’s prime minister has broken ranks in Europe – and dared to confront Trump theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@goebelmasse@det.social
2025-11-10 15:33:28

Die Wahrheit über den Krieg erzählen dir die Gräber.
tamagothi.wordpress.com/2025/1

@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2026-02-08 08:00:03

Bezos, dem Faschismus ergebener Oligarch in Trumps Wohlwollen, macht die #WashingtonPost zum rechten Propagandamedium.
Sind von den entlassenen Journalist*innen auch welche im Fediverse?
Ist ja vielleicht auch ein Qualitätsmerkmal, wenn man für Trumps Propagandamaschine als ungeeignet erkannt wurde.

FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
democracynow.org/2025/12/8/ken

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-09 09:01:13

A look at the first year of Illinois' news tax incentive program; it awarded $4M in tax credits to support 260 jobs at 120 outlets, one-third of them nonprofits (Rebuild Local News)
rebuildlocalnews.org/supportin

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-08 01:48:29

"Watched 10 minutes. I found myself with tears streaming down my face.
Watching Trump take the oath to defend the Constitution, as he tears it down. The dissonance of Melania saying her husband would be a 'unifier,' and all the pomp and circumstance for someone so venal. So beneath the great office - and wishing we could turn the clock back.
Journalist gives brutal review of Melania movie: 'Not a single person in the theater' - Raw Story
rawstory.com/melania-267510896

@mro@digitalcourage.social
2026-02-03 12:16:11

Don Lemon: 🇺🇸 US-Journalist wirft Einsatzkräften vor, #Angst verbreiten zu wollen - DER SPIEGEL

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2026-01-08 23:08:00

Uruguay just proved what's possible: they shifted to 98% renewable electricity in just two years—and it slashed poverty rates in the process.
The secret? They framed it as economic opportunity, not climate doom. With public ownership ensuring access for all, they built a model that works for people AND the planet.

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-01-28 07:25:39

»Phishing-Angriff — Zahlreiche Journalist:innen im Visier bei #Attacke über Signal-Messenger:
Mit einem #Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die #Signal-Kon…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-11-21 06:15:15

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Link auf linksunten.indymedia: Durchsuchung bei Journalist war verfassungswidrig

Pistachio Wars (2024) follows journalist Yasha Levine as he investigates a small-town water deal and uncovers a hidden side of California’s health-food industry.
At the center is the agricultural empire of America’s wealthiest farmers,
#Stewart and #Lynda

@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 20:49:54

Met my colleague @…, a true #mojo journalist by hart! Showed me his latest gadget: a sturdy rubber strip to make his beer bottle a video stand.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-02-05 08:24:47

All I Can Be
Join much-loved journalist and radio broadcaster Sarah Macdonald as she uncovers the deeply personal journeys of young Australians and well-known figures who've risen from tough beginnings...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/all-i-

All I Can Be
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange
2026-01-06 07:39:25

A few days ago I retooted a post about allegations of fraudulent / illegal behavior of a food delivery app (link to post: thepit.social/@peter/115824339)
It turns out that the information in the screenshots was a hoax. Here‘s the debunking by a journalist:

@qbi@freie-re.de
2026-01-03 19:01:55

Journalist: "Mr. President, do you have a New Year's resolution?"
#Trump: "I have, Peace. Peace on earth."
Wer hat nochmal sieben Länder binnen eines Jahres bombardiert?

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-11-12 19:31:53

Kherson Human Safari: Journalist ZARINA ZABARSKI documents the HORRORS of WAR: benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/khers

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-22 11:26:26

Were Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @…

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-14 17:07:37

"F.B.I. Searches Home of #Washington Post #Journalist in a Leak Investigation
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of #classified information…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-04 16:45:56

Putin's alleged secret daughter tells Ukrainian journalist she is 'really sorry' for her father's war (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
nypost.com/2025/12/04/world-ne
memeorandum.com/251204/p55#a25

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-01-03 01:42:52

Investigator breaches white supremacist sites, exposes users​ | Cybernews
cybernews.com/security/investi
'An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.'

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-12-03 06:55:43

I came up with a comic strip but I won't be trying to achieve the level of a 5-year old drawing using their non-dominant handed with their eyes closed.
First frame: a journalist asks: "Does the presence of cat hair on the bed affect the children's DNA?"
Second frame: camera moves right. A scientist appears, wearing a white coat with pens in the pocket, eyeglasses, cat ears and tail. They answer: "No."
#DaddyJoke

@goebelmasse@det.social
2025-12-07 10:47:10

@… Und der Journalist, vor allem der aus dem Dunstkreis des Springerstiefelverlages, knüppelt im Geiste mit.

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2025-11-14 10:31:32

"Maar nu zijn er twijfels of de uitspraken wel aan Wijers toegeschreven kunnen worden. Journalist Eric Smit, die die avond deel uitmaakte van hetzelfde panel, schrijft vrijdag dat hij de uitspraken over Yesilgöz en de VVD heeft gedaan, niet Wijers."

@ascendor@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-27 05:58:50

These: Journalist:innen, die Twitter, Facebook und co. als Quelle nutzen, sind schlechte Journalist:innen. Begründung: Sie verstehen nicht, dass sie manipuliert werden, um über das zu berichten, was "der Algorithmus" (also der Betreiber) gerne im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit hätte.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-26 11:25:58

A look at Journalist.net, a global marketplace that connects 10K freelance journalists with clients, from major newsbrands to creators (Freddy Mayhew/Press Gazette)
pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-

@hllizi@hespere.de
2025-12-03 07:16:00

"Die Aktivisten instrumentalisierten den Mord und machten ihn 'zu einer Waffe gegen die CDU', sagte Brand dem hr."
Schade, daß es keine Journalist*innen mehr gibt. Die könnten mal fragen, warum das eigentlich eine Waffe ist und weshalb sie funktioniert.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-11-19 10:49:00

Link auf linksunten.indymedia: Durchsuchung bei Journalist war verfassungswidrig
Vor zweieinhalb Jahren sorgte eine Razzia bei @… aus Freiburg und dessen Angestellten für Aufsehen. Das Vorgehen war verfassungswidrig.

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-02-01 04:16:55

The new magat talking point is that you can't be a journalist unless you're on the payroll of an oligarch.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-11-21 19:54:00

"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…

The more than 5,000 agents who surged into Minneapolis last month
came stocked with some
⚠️35,000 weapons,
including more than 1,100 riot control gas grenades,
and thousands of less-than-lethal munitions rounds.
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein shared the list with a homeland security official who described it as ⭐️"overkill."

@funkvolk@mastodon.social
2025-12-30 14:15:19

Ich glaube, ich bin gar nicht in irgendwelchen seriösen Journalist*innen Starterpacks. 🥲
Warum bloß. 🤷‍♀️

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-05 20:30:58

Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/media/vanity-
memeorandum.com/251205/p96#a25

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-01-30 10:23:14

Erin, eruit en goede sier maken met andermans werk: ben ik een parachute-journalist? | de Volkskrant
archive.ph/cvN0I

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-13 14:16:21

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-24 21:28:08

FBI Allegedly Targeted Filipino American Journalist Who Is Now In ICE Detention thedissenter.org/fbi-allegedly

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-29 00:58:47

Get comfortable cuz this is gonna take a while.
☑️ Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump's 'Top 25 Lies of 2025'
mediaite.com/media/news/cnns-d

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-03 09:05:52

Q&A with journalist Danny Funt about his new book on sports betting, news organizations making sports betting deals, parallels with prediction markets, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2026/02/sports-b

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-29 08:15:31

How Taylor Rooks Spends a Day Staying Fit and Finding Herself nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

@davej@dice.camp
2025-11-27 09:57:36

Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #RainyDayMusic:
1. Corey Glover, “April Rain”—

An animated GIF.

A female television journalist impassively reports live on the scene, before a backdrop of rowhouses cordoned off with police tape. A cascade of bowler-hatted, raincoated men falls bloodily to their doom—a parody of Rene Magritte’s 1953 painting “Golconde”.

The coverage switches to a very concerned, older female news anchor in the studio. “Breaking News: Odd Incident Noticed in Downtown” the banner reads, and the ticker beneath: “panic across the country. Armed police patrol …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-31 12:57:39

RE: journa.host/@fulelo/1159891184
Can’t be. Saudi Arabia, like Israel, are our allies in the West. And so it’s impossible to believe they would do something like this, or have a journalist murdered in their own embassy and chopped up into small…

@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social
2025-11-17 05:45:33

Not that the New York Times has much credibility left, but here’s another one for their long list of fails:
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
By Noah Hurowitz
Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-12-30 21:00:12

I wonder how Woodward & Bernstein would have been treated in today's anti-journalist climate?
propublica.org/article/propubl

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-31 15:59:58

Russia’s ‘Oreshnik’ in Belarus looks like a cut-down ‘Yars,’ with no launcher in sight, journalist says: benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/russi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-03 14:45:49

Court docs: the US DOJ failed to tell a judge about a 1980 law protecting journalists when it sought to seize WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's devices last month (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/poli

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-31 17:32:31

'Fucking Insane': Journalist Finds at Least 2,300 Illegal ICE Detentions Since July | Common Dreams
commondreams.org/news/ice-dete

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-11-21 19:52:36

"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…

@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-30 17:08:56

Fascist paramilitary invaders right before they abducted journalist Georgia Fort from her house for reporting on a protest at a St. Paul, MN church with a ICE field commander pastor. (1/30/26)
Source:
reddit.com/comments/1qraqi2

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-12-19 13:05:07

TFW a journalist from Yahoo News sends you an interview request from a gmail address.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-03 03:10:48

U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter's Home (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/poli
memeorandum.com/260202/p149#a2

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-01-31 05:00:16

The magats are on a full court press to claim that Don Lemon and Georgia Fort aren't journalists.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-11-28 02:42:04

My Spiritual Side
Journalist and author Jacinta Tynan speaks with inspiring people about their spiritual awakenings, insights and the practices that have transformed their lives...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/my-spi

My Spiritual Side
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-24 00:45:42

A Philippine court sentenced journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio to 12 to 18 years in jail on charges that media advocates call fabricated; she is expected to appeal (Jason Gutierrez/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/a<…

The journalist who initially revealed that Trump’s administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing
reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea.
Just days after Trump announced the September 2 bombing on social media, Intercept journalist Nick Turse exposed the follow-up strike that killed survivors, citi…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-30 16:08:42

'Agents at my door right now': Minnesota journalist arrested after filming church protest - Alternet.org
alternet.org/reporters-arreste

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-19 11:48:33

'I Hurt The Oppressor': British Journalist Sami Hamdi Recounts ICE Detention thedissenter.org/i-hurt-the-op

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-30 22:56:09

Press freedom groups denounce the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, saying the arrests are an "unequivocal attack on the First Amendment" (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/3

Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown
—whose 2018 reporting essentially reopened the Jeffrey Epstein case
—wants to know ⭐️ why her flight information is in the Epstein files. 
“Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?”
she wrote Sunday on X.
“As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this fli…

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-12-29 18:09:03

Uruguay just proved the impossible is possible: they flipped their entire economy to 98% renewable energy in just two years—and slashed poverty in the process.
The secret? They turned crisis into opportunity, made the economic case for clean energy, and sold excess power to neighbors for profit.
No fossil fuel industry to fight made it easier, but the lessons are universal.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-05 20:23:02

Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/busin…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-03 17:05:29

The Threat from America -- A note on who I am and what I'm doing: I'm an investigative journalist ... (Carole Cadwalladr/How to Survive the Broligarchy)
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the
memeorandum.com/260103/p48#a26

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-13 22:23:18

Coalition Demands That Congress Withdraw Journalist Subpoena thedissenter.org/coalition-dem

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-16 12:26:49

Euer Browser nervt mit KI-Assistenten, Shopping-Vorschlägen und ständigen „Mach mich zum Standard"-Popups? 😤 Der US-Journalist und Programmierer Corbin Davenport hat genug davon – und eine elegante Lösung entwickelt.
Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11143193

Das Bild zeigt einen Browser. Im Bild steht: "Neues Open-Source-Tool befreit Chrome, Edge und Firefox von KI-Ballast" dadrunter steht: "Das Open-Source-Projekt „Just the Browser" macht Webbrowser wieder zu dem, was sie sein sollten – einfache Browser ohne unnötigen Ballast."
@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-01-25 11:16:41

Media Magnet
Join entrepreneur, business coach and former TV journalist, Liz Nable as she explores how to get your business or brand out to the world using the media and Free PR...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/nable-

Media Magnet
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-28 22:51:01

64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-02 21:05:44

Donald Trump again denies ever visiting Epstein's island and repeats threat to sue journalist - US politics live (Shrai Popat/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2
memeorandum.com/260202/p95#a26

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-17 18:08:11

New spyware discovered on Belarusian journalist’s phone after interrogation therecord.media/spyware-belaru

Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists,
including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon,
signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles,
despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago
in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforc…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-14 14:05:51

Sources: the FBI searched WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home, as part of what officials called an investigation into possible sharing of government secrets (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/poli

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-01-21 23:50:27

On Time
Across four conversations journalist Rachael Hocking engages with leading thinkers to examine how time governs our world by measuring moments, defining cycles and shaping our deepest sense of self...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/on-tim

On Time
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-30 21:25:58

Journalist Don Lemon is charged with federal civil rights crimes in anti-ICE church protest (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/don-lemon-a
memeorandum.com/260130/p122#a2

A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church
have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday,
even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon.
The developments unfolded as Vice President JD Vance arrived in the state.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post on X.
On …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-30 16:45:56

Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest (Associated Press)
abcnews.go.com/US/don-lemon-ar
memeorandum.com/260130/p75#a26

The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom.
That fact is not in dispute.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-30 16:25:51

Feds arrest 4, including Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist over church protest (David Folkenflik/NPR)
npr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-56937
memeorandum.com/260130/p64#a26

According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.
Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.
“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.
“This should have people across…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-22 17:51:26

Podcast: Marisa Kabas on Landing Big Scoops as an Independent Journalist 404media.co/podcast-landing-bi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-29 11:35:30

Journalist Eoin Higgins says Matt Taibbi is suing him for defamation over Owned, his book about tech billionaires and the left, and "I stand by my work" (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint)
eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/yes<…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-30 19:01:00

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
x.com/jeremymbarr/status/20060

In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-30 13:39:29

Don Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in Minnesota, says his lawyer (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/don-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-15 21:31:18

How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis (Christian Paz/Vox)
vox.com/politics/475361/minnea
memeorandum.com/260115/p112#a2

To people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-29 01:31:01

A third person is sentenced to jail for participating in a murder-for-hire plot, directed by Iran's government, targeting journalist and activist Masih Alinejad (Colin Moynihan/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/28/nyregio

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-14 11:50:55

A UK court finds three men guilty of harassing BBC journalist Catrin Nye, who presented the 2023 podcast and doc A Very British Cult on the Lighthouse group (Neil Henderson/BBC)
bbc.com/news/articles/c86vg999

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-23 05:40:44

Judge rejects criminal charge against journalist Don Lemon over church protest (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/01/22/d
memeorandum.com/260123/p1#a260

A federal appeals court on Friday turned down an extraordinary request from the Justice Department to force a judge to issue arrest warrants for journalist #Don #Lemon, and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis last week.
The department’s unusual petition, which was unsealed on Saturday alo…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-13 19:26:32

Beijing's High Court rejects an appeal by veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to overturn a seven-year jail term for "espionage", per his family (James Pomfret/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/media-tel

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-26 16:55:49

Production company Gaumont confirms Apple TV pulled French show The Hunt days before its debut after a journalist alleged it was plagiarized from a 1973 novel (Alexi Duggins/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-21 09:05:33

Lou Cannon, a veteran Washington Post reporter who wrote several influential biographies of Ronald Reagan, has died at 92 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/20/books/l

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-22 00:18:20

Vanity Fair is reviewing its ties to Olivia Nuzzi, hired in September, after being "taken by surprise" by an essay that raised new questions about her ethics (Ginia Bellafante/New York Times)

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-22 18:30:57

Source: a federal judge rejected the US DOJ's initial attempt to charge Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters that interrupted a Minnesota church service (Hannah Rabinowitz/CNN)
cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/do