The Tragedy of Yulia Skripal
Somewhere, isolated from the rest of the world, nerve agent victim Yulia Skripal recently turned 40. She miraculously survived her alleged exposure to a...
Far-Right Extremists and Neo-Nazis are Everywhere (but some are more ‘worthy’ than others)
February 2022 was a crucial turning point in human affairs. For two years, all matters Covid-19 dominated the public sphere, yet within a few...
Mainstream news media, the state and censorship: What amounts to undue influence?
An article appeared in early editions of The Times on Saturday 18th June 2022 that alleged that Boris Johnson had attempted to hire Carrie...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
The Real Problem of Disinformation
According to the UK Government, which has set up a dedicated Counter-Disinformation Unit, there is a ‘danger that hostile actors use online disinformation to undermine our...
While the Millions Die: How I Learned To Stop Worrying That Our Media Can...
This article draws upon research originally conducted by: Alan MacLeod, Daniel Broudy, Jeffrey Klaehn, and Florian Zollmann and builds upon an earlier piece published...
How “Censorship” Became “The Fight Against Disinformation” in Germany: A Story in Six Steps
Step 1: 2014 – Ukraine
After the coup in Kiev in 2014, the media across the spectrum — from right to left — started reporting...
The Atrocity of Western Mainstream Media
My 2017 book, Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda (Routledge), chronicles the absurdly one-sided tunnel vision of Western...
‘We Are a Nation of Shopkeepers’
Abstract
Professor Cees Hamelink has been a rare critical voice in Dutch and international communication scholarship for the last half a century. His work has...
Schrödinger’s novichok: 12 points from the Dawn Sturgess inquiry, part 2
What happens when official evidence about a nerve agent death exists in impossible dual states? Part two of a three-part report on the Dawn...