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justinling

@justinling@mastodon.online

Freelance investigative journalist — national security, disinformation, conspiracy theories, extremism, Russia/Ukraine, policing. 🕵‍♂️

Published in Foreign Policy, WIRED, The Guardian, other places.

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So much commentary about the war on Gaza seems uncurious or fatalistic about what the future holds. But there's no great mystery: Palestine needs a ceasefire, fresh elections, and a path to statehood. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/gaza-and-the-day-after

justinling, to Russia
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Kids programming, Kremlin propaganda, anti-Putin activism: It all happens on YouTube. And yet the video platform stays online in Russia — for now. https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-russia-propaganda-censorship-2024/

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Hi! If you're in Toronto tomorrow, come out to listen to me interview Kaya Genç about his fantastic book about Turkey and its fraught modern politics. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/kaya-genc-a-journey-through-modern-turkey-tickets-884955083477

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Three years ago, Justin Trudeau promised to ban the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from using three controversial, risky, tactics.

But then the RCMP say they didn't want to, so Trudeau gave up. thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-asked-justin-trudeaus-liberals-why-they-broke-a-promise-to-ban-three-controversial-police/article_72a61ab8-1f59-11ef-823e-cbe4f1fc720d.html

justinling, to random
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Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save BuzzFeed. It is, may I say, not very good. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/lol-vivek-ramaswamy-buzzfeed

justinling, to Russia
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Russia's beleaguered liberal opposition has had a brutal few years — poisoned, imprisoned, beaten, marginalized.

I went to Lithuania to catch up with the activists still trying to replace Putin. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/29/putin-dissidents-attacks-volkov/

justinling, to sweden
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In , a far-right trollfarm exposes how outraged gets manufactured and weaponized online. Exposing it has never been more crucial. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/inside-the-swedish-trollfabrik

justinling,
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@RoyBrander So, yeah, co-signed. Schools should be quick and nimble to try and demystify and explain aspects of modern life which could be harmful.

But I confess I'm really skeptical it would do much good. I think, just by definition, the lessons are going to be out-of-date before they ever hit the classroom. But hey, that's not a reason not to do it. (And I think, to some degree, this IS being done.)

justinling, to random
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Canada is in a constitutional crisis, it's just that no one wants to admit it. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/heres-what-i-learned-from-my-conversation-with-justin-trudeau-theres-only-one-way-to/article_5563637a-148c-11ef-b074-97c48c751727.html

justinling,
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@johnefrancis I hear there are a few services out there which let you skirt around that paywall.

It would be wrong to use them, of course.

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@justinling

You've done good Convoy coverage - but has it ever been released, exactly how much bank-account-locking was done?

  • How many for more than 3 days?

  • How many lost access to not just small-biz account but personal, grocery account?

Pat King trial has me wondering, don't know those numbers, just that THEY thought it horrendous.

A story comparing olden-days, Occupy, and encampment arrests to the bank accounts frozen, (and the one cracked collarbone) would be a dramatic contrast..

justinling,
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@RoyBrander The Rouleau Commission report gets into some of the nitty gritty of that on page 387: https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/documents/Final-Report/Vol-2-Report-of-the-Public-Inquiry-into-the-2022-Public-Order-Emergency.pdf

And we know that all of the accounts, except those subject to court proceedings, were unfrozen between Feb 21 and Feb 24.

I do think that some accounts went wonky after being unfrozen, but I think that was largely result of the banks and credit agencies not having good processes for this sort of thing.

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