Marc Burleigh
@marcburleigh
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Paris-based journalist. Tweeting in my name only -- but TBH, increasingly rarely. I'm now over on the clear-skied alternative.
Joined June 2007
RT @eurofactcheck: We are pleased to announce our partnership with @AFP, co-founder and verified member of the EFCSN, by which AFP provides….
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This could start a fictional trend. What else? .Maybe Sunak in a series about a trainee astronaut for SpaceX?.Australia's Scott Morrison reinvented as a relationship coach in Thailand?.Obama becoming a F1 team chief?.Jean-Claude Juncker develops super powers to fight evil?.
Italy's Rai now has a tv series where Angela Merkel decides to become a detective in Northern Italy after retirement.h/t @putintintin1.
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Outgoing PM Sunak apologises to "unremarkable" Britain, which he still calls the best country on the planet.
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Seeing a lot of arguments today that the UK's "winner-takes-all" voting system needs to be revised.
I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote. Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else. Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
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Rising public alarm at Big Tech plundering user copyright to train its AI, without payment and largely without consent. Meta defending its move: Adobe too: Instagram users running away to rival Cara:
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RT @BBCWorld: Yacht sinks after being rammed by orcas in Strait of Gibraltar
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Two people onboard the vessel, Alboran Cognac, were rescued by a passing oil tanker after the incident.
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RT @BBCWorld: Beaten, abused, dumped on the street - secret document tells how Iran teen protester died at hands of security forces. https….
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Revolutionary Guards' papers passed to the BBC give chilling details of Nika Shakarami’s last movements.
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RT @AFP: VIDEO: 🇧🇪 Farmers protest outside EU summit in Brussels. Demonstrators clog roads outside the European Parliament as farmers from….
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Police lined up against farmers' protest in front of EU parliament. Photo (C) Marc Burleigh (AFP)
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RT @MarkUrban01: Reports out of Kurdistan: a missile attack on new American consulate compound; Iranian Revolutionary Guards claim the atta….
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In mobile video news: all the staff of the original (non-subscription) Filmic Pro have reportedly been laid off, with Bending Spoons taking over all their ops. But: *shrug* - most users have gone to rival Blackmagic Cam app (free) anyway.
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Bending Spoons will develop Filmic apps going forward.
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Logan's Run TV spinoff, 1977. vs. Elon Musk's X feed, 2023
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A head's up that the European Commission is willing to pay for around 40 journalists *and content creators* from EU countries to go to Brussels for 2 days to learn about EU institutions and policies (esp. Cohesion policy).
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Sums up my approach to Twitter these days.
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RT @AndrewBeatty: AFP's Sydney bureau is hiring a reporter. We're looking for someone who loves news, has solid reporting experience, can….
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RT @AFP: European lawmakers have introduced amendments to protect camembert's distinctive round wooden containers from the scope of an EU r….
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