Michelle Shephard
@shephardm
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Journalist, NYT best-selling author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, podcaster. Former @TorontoStar #natsec reporter. Co-president of @CJFE and founder of @FFFilms_
Here & there. Proud Canadian.
Joined August 2009
Thank you @CriminalShow for such a thoughtful episode. Appreciate the interview & care @PhoebeVJudge & @jackiesojico.
In 2006, a group of young men were arrested under the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act for planning to bomb Toronto. They were known as the Toronto 18. One of the group’s leaders was a 20-year-old named Zakaria Amara. Today, our conversation with him. https://t.co/hXSja09jgU
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Journalists should not face such harassment or threats for doing their job. Informed reporting or analysis is part of free expression and a cornerstone of democracy. #journalismisnotacrime
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For those wanting to learn more about how the Canadian military has become an attractive place as well as recruitment base for (right-wing) extremists, check out @shephardm's terrific podcast, White Hot Hate: https://t.co/18CMIo4UGo
cbc.ca
When recruitment posters for a white supremacist network start appearing around town, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover and infiltrate the group. For transcripts of...
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For Janet Malcolm, journalism “depend[s] for its life on a kind of fuzziness and murkiness, if not utter covertness, of purpose.” But @shephardm’s latest story is a “masterwork of empathetic storytelling” that @cstarnino couldn’t be more proud of.
thewalrus.ca
Writers can bring clarity to a complicated situation without giving up their independence—or empathy
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“The cognitive dissonance begins from above.” On her twenty-eighth visit to Guantánamo Bay, journalist @shephardm confronts the stark contrast between the tropical splendour and dark history of the prison dubbed “the gulag of our times.”
thewalrus.ca
The surreal gulag has a pub, a gift shop, and a McDonald’s. Now Trump is looking to fill it up again
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Honoured to take part in @FreeSpeechHub #WorldPressFreedomDay on behalf of @CJFE. Please follow and support them!
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"Violent extremism is the same wherever you go." — @shephardm on extremist movements, with @Scott_D_Payne, co-author of "Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis," tonight at 11pm with @JeyanTVO | Producer: @bweaver08
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Imagine being in the backwoods of Georgia with neo-Nazis, slaughtering a goat and drinking its blood. Former undercover FBI agent @Scott_D_Payne tells @JeyanTVO about exposing hate groups and his book "Code Name: Pale Horse," co-authored with @shephardm
https://t.co/8kVm5R7Q4y
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Mr. Bier called the tattoos “astoundingly thin” evidence of gang membership. “If it was ever presented to a court, it’d be laughed out of court,” he said. https://t.co/AR54r0LY03
nytimes.com
The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.
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Congrats @Scott_D_Payne + @shephardm! The audiobook of CODE NAME: PALE HORSE is #1 on @AppleBooks, #1 on @audible_com Biographies & Memoirs, and #6 Audible! Get your copy here: https://t.co/3az6gj7Xwf
@simonschuster @SimonAudio
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BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] https://t.co/oeeqPqw5i2
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Believe me, this Megyn Kelly interview in the @nytimes is fascinating. Well done, Lulu Garcia-Navarro. @megynkelly
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Scott Payne’s path to becoming an undercover Nazi began online. Here, the former FBI special agent traces the steps he took to create a digital persona convincing enough to infiltrate one of America’s most active accelerationist groups:
thewalrus.ca
Accelerationist groups are in overdrive to establish a white ethno-state. As an FBI special agent, I infiltrated one
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Hear an excerpt from #CodeNamePaleHorse, an eye-opening true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, co-written by retired FBI agent #ScottPayne and journalist #MichelleShephard (@shephardm). CC: @AtriaBooks
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