Oxfords Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found that social media has replaced TV news and news websites as the top way Americans get their news. This includes right wing influencers like Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump. One-fifth of Americans said they had come over “news and commentary” from Joe Rogan in the […]
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Crossing the Mediterranean is hazardous. More than 32 000 are missing since 2014. Refugees who survive end up in a limbo without hope. “The road to Greece is closing… any migrants entering illegally will be arrested and detained”, Greek prime minister Mitsotakis told parliament 9 July 2025. The European Convention of Human Rights article 2
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Support international law and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). I address Tromsø Municipality and the The Arctic University of Norway with a strong appeal to clearly demonstrate solidarity and support for our friends in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). The entire population of Kalaallit Nunaat is now living in a mix of fear and anger under daily threats to
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The far-right party AfD that wants to stop German support for Ukraine has surged in the polls before the German election. At the same time false stories about politicians have spread on social media: Correctiv.org claims that Russian troll factories are behind these and many more sensational, but false stories that are spread from 100
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The new EU migrant pact is a gift to the extreme right because it undermines the UN refugee convention. The universal conventions of human rights and refugees rights are opposed to the extreme right wing world view, in which the world is seen as a conflict between ethnic groups and nations. The undermining of universal
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The telling of stories of immigrant crime is an important but underestimated tool in far-right propaganda. The age old format of storytelling is important form of communication. As opposed to the communication of dry facts and statistics by written texts that is predominately used by the main political mainstream and left. These stories were originally
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