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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionThe radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeezeThe short squeeze may serve as an example of how the radical Right could flex its muscles and gain strength in the long term
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisIn Lebanon, journalists report attacks and a decline in freedom of speechThree reporters speak out about being subject to assaults from supporters of the country's major political parties
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Published in: 50.50: NewsopenDemocracy’s feminist investigations team shortlisted for European awardOur Tracking the Backlash team was chosen for revealing the global spread of anti-abortion misinformation that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: ReviewWhy truth is too weak to stop a liar like Boris JohnsonPeter Oborne writes of ‘the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought’. But it’s not just an...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionButantan, Bum Bum Tam Tam and how baile funk might save BrazilReviled by elites, this home-grown musical genre is proving an effective weapon in the fight against COVID-19 misinformation
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: Home: Analysis‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s militarySince the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs demand answers from Gove over Freedom of Information concernsSenior Tories to seek answers from Cabinet ministers, after newspaper editors unite behind openDemocracy’s call for...
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Published in: Home: OpinionTrump’s impeachment trial already shows how far US democracy has been underminedInstitutional deadlock in Congress indicates a deeper and far more worrying threat to rational debate among American citizens
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsFleet Street editors unite to demand ‘urgent’ action on Freedom of InformationGove under pressure as Guardian, Times, Telegraph, FT, Mirror and others sign openDemocracy letter calling for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A shrinking space: media capture in Orbán’s HungaryThe demise of a once thriving independent broadcaster is yet another signpost in Hungary's deteriorating democracy...
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Published in: Home: OpinionReporting is not a crime. So why has India’s government charged our magazine?The Caravan’s editors write that charges filed against them after covering protests are an ‘assault on free media’.
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Published in: HomeThe largest personal data leakage in Brazilian historyWhy the rest of the world should be worried, and think hard about how to create a data protection culture.
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Published in: openIndia: OpinionIndia is turning to colonial-era laws to silence journalistsSedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi’s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed.
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Published in: Home: OpinionBoris Johnson and his government are attacking press freedom. We must not let them winOne journalist has been arrested. A minister has attacked another on Twitter. These are not isolated incidents – and...
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Published in: Home: OpinionGodfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravellingHodgson, who died aged 86, provided a stellar canon of articles for openDemocracy that unveil the path to Trumpism.
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe media must not give African leaders platforms to spout homophobia – it only helps their populismCovering gay rights in Africa is hard work, for both local and international journalists. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour...
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Published in: 50.50How our feminist investigative journalism fellows are shaking up the mediaopenDemocracy is training women and LGBTIQ people around the world in investigations and storytelling. Meet our...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The state of trade unions in the UKThere was never a better time to join a union, organise and fight for a fairer, greener world.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThis is American fascismLike Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years...
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