Why, as a Palestinian American journalist, I had to leave the news industry | Israel War on Gaza

Why, as a Palestinian American journalist, I had to leave the news industry | Israel War on Gaza

I was listening to a lecture at my local mosque when it suddenly felt like the imam was speaking directly to me. He was interpreting a few verses from the Quran. As he approached the sixth verse in the chapter and began to explain its meaning, my heart began to…

Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public | Social Media News

Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public | Social Media News

A honeymoon in Western Tibet came to a tragic end in October when the newlyweds crashed their car on a mountain road after suffering altitude sickness. Sitting in the passenger seat, 27-year-old Yu Yanyan from Shanghai was badly injured. Despite being transferred to a local hospital, rapid haemorrhaging and a…

Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel: Report | Israel War on Gaza News

Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel: Report | Israel War on Gaza News

Samer Abudaqa, Al Jazeera’s cameraman who was killed on December 15 in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, died despite an extensive network of humanitarian organisations and fellow journalists applying pressure on Israel to help rescue him, The Intercept has reported. Abudaqa was left to bleed to death at the…

Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi released in Tunis two days after arrest | Media News

Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi released in Tunis two days after arrest | Media News

Sassi was arrested on Wednesday at his house. The Al Jazeera journalist, Samir Sassi, has been released by a court in Tunis, following his arrest on terrorism charges earlier this week. Police first entered Sassi’s house late on Wednesday evening, searching his computer and confiscating his mobile phone and those…

Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi arrested in Tunis | Media News

Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi arrested in Tunis | Media News

Sassi was arrested after a raid on his family’s home on Wednesday night. Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi has been arrested by Tunisian “anti-terrorism” officers at his home in Tunis. According to Sassi’s wife, a squad of officers raided their home on Wednesday night, going through the family’s possessions and…

China targets friendly media, diplomats to ‘tell story of Xinjiang’ | Uighur News

China targets friendly media, diplomats to ‘tell story of Xinjiang’ | Uighur News

Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of Western China were lies. Accounts from people who had fled the area as well as reports from human rights organisations were painting a picture of human…

What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media

What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media

Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de-facto spyware by impressionable youth swiping short-form videos in their bedrooms. Official tutting at TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is nothing new. The prospect of a…

Nicole Jenes and Rathbone: Social media influencers a new lens on Gaza war | Social Media

Nicole Jenes and Rathbone: Social media influencers a new lens on Gaza war | Social Media

Exploring how Instagram and TikTok influencers shape narratives in Israel’s war on Gaza. Social media has revolutionised our understanding and perception of wars and conflicts. Platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, with their real-time, unfiltered content, offer a new perspective that’s immediate and often raw. These platforms enable users worldwide…

India targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware: Amnesty | Cybersecurity News

India targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware: Amnesty | Cybersecurity News

Investigation shows journalists in India face ‘threat of unlawful surveillance’ along with other ‘tools of repression’. India’s government has used the highly invasive Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists, according to a new investigation by Amnesty International and The Washington Post. The findings, published on Thursday, noted India’s repeated use…