Martin Bright
@martinbright
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex. Editor-at-large @indexcensorship. Founder @creativesoc. Journalist portrayed in Official Secrets. https://t.co/FozPlmHIW0
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Joined July 2008
Considering a degree in journalism? Look no further. You could even be taught by me! https://t.co/H2lsA6jYol
@Uni_of_Essex
essex.ac.uk
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Heads now roll after this string of bias claims…….BBC losing grip, warn staff after bias row | The Observer
observer.co.uk
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Nottingham Council is erroneously sending out Council Tax notices to students. Is this a systematic glitch? Or a scam? Impossible to get through to the council on the phone or website. @nottslive @nottspolice
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Today I will be sharing the full details of my arrest by Essex Police. They have now settled out of court after I made a claim against them for false imprisonment and battery. Strap in, because the abuse of power by police will knock your socks off. .. 🧵>
If you speak out about the #Police, they will come for you. They came for me on Friday. They have silenced me, criminalised me, falsely imprisoned me, and I’m still shaking. I’m tweeting this for my safety. Im terrified.
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As #France's politics remains in crisis, its media landscape is shifting to the right, dominated by “the French Murdoch” aka. Vincent Bolloré. Index’s @martinbright examines the worrying “Bollorisation” of French media: https://t.co/RV30T23wnl
indexoncensorship.org
Vincent Bolloré, known as the "French Murdoch", dominates media on the other side of the Channel
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How a billionaire mogul pushed France's media to the right. “Bollorisation” - a French mouthful. But learn about it before it’s too late. @IndexCensorship
indexoncensorship.org
Vincent Bolloré, known as the "French Murdoch", dominates media on the other side of the Channel
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Absolutely horrifying to see this attempt to shut down an event at LSE about 7th October sexual violence. I can only imagine how Jewish colleagues and students must feel about the unhinged levels of antisemitism we are seeing on campus. https://t.co/dlu9qHmG9a
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The journalists who cover the Pentagon had to choose today between signing a pledge that would make it impossible to do independent journalism and turning in their Pentagon press badges. Almost all of them turned in their badges and left the building.
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Today the Pentagon Press Corps handed over our badges and walked out in unison in defense of the First Amendment. It’s an unprecedented attack on the public’s right to know and the end of one of the most professional press relationships in DC.
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I’ve now been followed by five “Royal Mail” customer service accounts each claiming the other is a scammer.
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My last three @RoyalMail parcels have either not arrived or been late. Am I just unlucky or is this a pattern?
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Another week & another example of someone being cancelled in the UK simply because they’re Israeli and/or Jewish. In this case queer DJ Roi Perez. Left for the justification & right for a post of Perez’s calling for the very thing we’re lacking today - empathy. This has to stop.
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The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those
washingtonpost.com
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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Watching these Hollywood stars pumping their money into UK football clubs - I wonder if their money would be better spent funding free expression organisations and educating the next generation of journalists. @IndexCensorship @Uni_of_Essex
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Using never-before-seen surveillance footage and survivor testimony, @RFERL’s @RadioSvoboda reconstructed a harrowing account of the Bucha killings. The groundbreaking piece is shortlisted for the @theaibstv Awards in the investigative video category. https://t.co/KK7uw9Htx2
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Important thread from @ALLMEP
🧵ON NEW ALLMEP/REMESH POLL: Large majority of Americans — including MAGA voters — want the U.S. to play a bigger role in ending the Gaza war and securing *real* Israeli-Palestinian regional peace deal 1/
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Read more on this poll and the results in @TimesofIsrael "Most Americans, including MAGA supporters, oppose Israeli annexation of West Bank — poll" https://t.co/vzbJ5SP2XU
timesofisrael.com
Survey by Alliance for Middle East Peace finds broad support for a deal that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israeli normalization with Saudi Arabia
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If Kash Patel thought that was a way to bring the country together then the Valhalla reference does not help: https://t.co/uztf2zi8Dk
theconversation.com
Norse symbols and references to Valhalla repeatedly show up the manifestos of far right terrorists. An expert explains why.
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Heartbreaking words of former political prisoner Larysa Shchyrakova, who served her entire sentence while her mother passed away & today Larysa was forcibly deported from #Belarus. This is the essence of Lukashenko's inhumane regime. There are thousands of such stories in Belarus
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We welcome news that Mikola Dziadok and Larysa Shchyrakova were released from prison in #Belarus yesterday. Dziadok was featured in our Letters from Lukashenka's Prisoners campaign and Shchyrakova wrote for our magazine. They should never have been arrested in the first place.
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