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Courtney Radsch in Newsweek on Tech Platforms and the Disinformation War

March 29, 2022
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“Why are leaders in Russia, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia … allowed to use American social media platforms to propagandize when they block many of those same platforms in their own countries?,” our Fellow Courtney Radsch asks in an opinion piece in Newsweek on tech platforms’ responsibility in the disinformation war.

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Anastasiia Vorozhtsova Interviews Ann Cooper on New Threats for Journalists

March 25, 2022
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As part of CMDS Director Marius Dragomir’s journalism class, student Anastasiia Vorozhtsova has interviewed award-winning journalist Ann Cooper for MediaPowerMonitor.

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Sandra Ristovska Analyzes Open-Source Investigation as a Genre of Conflict Reporting

March 23, 2022
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Open-source investigation in conflict news “simultaneously opens up and limits opportunities for eyewitness images as a platform for voice,” our Fellow Sandra Ristovska writes in a new paper for the journal Journalism.

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Marius Dragomir on Viktor Orbán’s Balancing Act

March 22, 2022
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In a commentary published in five different languages, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir looks at why Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks out against the war in Ukraine while ordering his media to spread pro-Russian misinformation.

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The Impact of the War on News Media: What Journalists Expect

March 21, 2022
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Many journalists expect a fall in advertising revenue, the closure of media outlets and increasing government control over the media as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, a new CMDS report finds.

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