michael safi
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journalist @guardian host of daily news podcast Today in Focus. listen to new seven-part series BLACK BOX, an Apple Podcasts best of 2024
Joined May 2012
It's the most notorious deepfake porn app on the internet - causing havoc in schools around the world. For a new Guardian podcast series about AI, Black Box, we were able to get inside the ClothOff network and can reveal several names linked to the app
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Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated non-consensual images of children around the world
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he no longer appears on public lists of Australian IS fighters detained in Syria. Mustafa Hajj-Obeid's family knew nothing of his fate for nearly four years. we found him by chance in a crowded cell in a prison in the desert city of Hasakah https://t.co/qFrfd3VRjc
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Exclusive: Mustafa Hajj-Obeid, who left Australia in 2015, is being held in Panorama prison, a detention centre for accused IS members run by the SDF
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Exclusive: Missing Australian member of Islamic State found alive in Syrian prison. W/@safimichael & @baderkhanahmad
https://t.co/t2QktQH6MV
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Exclusive: Mustafa Hajj-Obeid, who left Australia in 2015, is being held in Panorama prison, a detention centre for accused IS members run by the SDF
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Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya, Syria's "human slaughterhouse"
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Exclusive: The Guardian gains access to Sednaya jail, where prisoners are rumoured to be trapped underground – as desperate relatives wait for news
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Moammar has been searching for his brother for 39 years, arrested by Syrian soldiers in Lebanon when he was 18. He hadn’t heard anything from him since. Until Thursday, when his brother emerged from Hama prison as an old man, 39 years later. https://t.co/MpKH1pgKK1
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Family members describe renewed hopes after decades-long searches for political detainees in ‘Kingdom of Silence’
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On the site of last night’s strike in Basta, central Beirut. Lebanon’s ministry of health says the initial death toll is four killed, 23 injured. #lebanon
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big year for the polio virus
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it
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you can read this whole story without ever being told what people are protesting about lol. apart from they want "a free palestine". why, is something going on there?
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Premier Jacinta Allan said there was no need to bolster Victoria police’s powers after an activist group threatened to disrupt the Myer Christmas windows launch.
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Lebanon's torment, this report contains some upsetting scenes. @dcinfocus
@Ghaith32521355 @StuHollandEsq
@AbbassBaalbaki @leenasaidi
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We stayed up so that you didn’t have to. Come on the wild ride of the election night with me and @safimichael and Guardian reporters across the US as we watch Kamala Harris’s slide from hope to despair and Trump’s near certain return to the White House
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Americans have made their decision and they’ve sent Donald Trump back to the White House. Guardian reporters tell the story of the night from around the United States
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My story, based on reporting across Moldova and Georgia, looks at how the fear of provoking Russia has led some voters to support political forces advocating for closer ties with Moscow https://t.co/yt3HFwV5lL
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Voters have backed political forces that favour closer Moscow ties despite seeing their country’s future in Europe
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Follow the Guardian for our on-the-ground coverage of the latest developments in the Georgian parliamentary elections, seen by many as the most crucial since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 https://t.co/KghX965Ykt
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Voters will decide if Georgian Dream party, in power since 2012, will secure another four-years, having shifted the country closer to Russia
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Surviving war: A day in the life of one of Gaza’s 20,000 new orphans https://t.co/JuVJGALVbM via @Channel4News
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The images we've seen from Gaza over the last year have been shocking and violent. Homes destroyed, bodies broken and hospitals overwhelmed in the face of Israel's assault.
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So incredibly grateful to @SenSanders for this powerful call for accountability. It's been a year since Israeli forces targeted us twice with tank fire, killing @LbIssam of @Reuters and wounding six other clearly marked journalists. We want justice.
More than a year ago, an Israeli tank fired on a group of clearly marked journalists, killing one and wounding six others, including an American from Vermont. There have been no steps toward accountability. Today, my colleagues and I are demanding an independent investigation.
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Happy to announce something exciting that we’ve been working on for a while. The Long Wave, a weekly newsletter on Black life and culture around the world, is launching on 30 Oct. Written by me and edited by the mega talented @jaseokundaye. Sign up here!
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Nesrine Malik and Jason Okundaye deliver your weekly dose of Black life and culture from around the world
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Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo. https://t.co/Q43NrBt48d
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The long read: As a Spanish reporter, Pablo González charmed his way into Russian opposition circles and covered Putin’s wars. Then, in 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Many former...
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Fascinating and baffling and sad
New Interview: I talked to the novelist and commentator Howard Jacobson about his argument that sustained media coverage of children being killed in Gaza is functioning as a new “blood libel” against Jews. https://t.co/4CpS46K4OG
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