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This week we ve been marking a milestone - 50 years of NPR - and with it, reflecting on how journalism and the media have grown in that time as well. And one of the biggest shifts? The embrace of social media. For NPR, that embrace came in the early 2010s with the so-called Arab Spring.
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CORNISH: On the radio, listeners heard the celebrations in Egypt s Tahrir Square after that country s president stepped down in February 2011, and NPR correspondents and hosts would report from uprisings across the region. But their work was boosted by someone not even in the newsroom - a man named Andy Carvin, who was hired to reach out to new audiences and, you know, do internet stuff.
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Eliot Higgins Review by David Pratt In the first paragraph of his book’s opening chapter, Eliot Higgins recounts a day during the Arab Spring uprising in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. It was February 2, 2011 and the events that unfolded would become known as the “Battle of the Camel” because protesters near the famous Tahrir Square were charged by people riding camels. Those who charged were supporters of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Some were paid thugs, others released from jail on the agreement that they would battle the protesters on the regime’s behalf. I was there in Cairo that day as a reporter and almost fell victim to the violence of those same regime-recruited thugs or “baltagiya” as they are known in Arabic. In his account, Higgins tells of another reporter covering that day’s events, who “never needed to take cover or press a vinegar-soaked rag to this mouth, against the tear gas”. Andy Carvin of National Public Radio had no need to do so b
Weaponized: Understanding the COVID-19 narrative arms race
Thu, Feb 25, 2021 3:00 PM
A briefing by the authors of DFRLab’s report “Weaponized: How rumors about COVID-19’s origins led to a narrative arms race.”
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Thursday, February 25, 3-4pm EST, an exclusive briefing by the editors of DFRLab’s new report
Weaponized: How rumors about COVID-19’s origins led to a narrative arms race.The result of a nine-month joint research project by the DFRLab and the Associated Press, this report examines the information environments of four countries China, Russia, Iran, and the United States during the first six months of the COVID-19 outbreak and the false narratives that took hold there. The report focuses on how varying, unverified, and outright false narratives that the virus was a bioweapon or the result of a lab accident spread globally