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“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a June 2016 interview. “We’re seeing a massive increase, as I’ve said, on both pictures and video. So I think, yeah, if I was having a bet, I would say: Video, video, video.” It’s the ten…

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands doctrine simply means that if you want equitable treatment on an issue, you must have acted ethically and in good faith yourself on the same issue. In other words, don’t come at me with lectures…

At no other moment in history has the leader of the world’s most powerful empire, mid-genocide, addressed a gathering of global dignitaries and boasted of the merch sales of a personal line of baseball hats. “I’m really good at predicting things,” Trump said to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. “During the campaign they had…

Unless you’re on the crew on the International Space Station or you dwell permanently inside an opal-mine, you may have missed the news this month about Shooting Death No: 31,239 in the USA this year (by the time of reading, results may vary). Unremarkably, the shooting of an American male was committed by yet another…

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza was hit by a suspected Israeli drone attack on Tuesday while docked at the Sidi Bou Said port in Tunisian waters. Video footage from multiple sources confirm that a boat was struck from above with an incendiary device, causing the vessel to ignite with crew on board, damaging the…

Summary for flaky, attention-span deficient types: First Nations and Palestinian allies stood strong against Nazi assaults in the Melbourne CBD, and at Camp Sovereignty, while the “Anti-semitism envoy” Jillian Segal refused to condemn the Nazi terror attack and rallies. *** This is a tale of two cities and two gatherings of racist, genocidal supremacists: one…

ASIO Chief Mike Burgess stood next to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke as they delivered a “disturbing discovery” to the Australian public. The announcement revealed that two of the antisemitic attacks, including the Adass Synagogue arson attack, were the responsibility of foreign actors connected to Iran.…

It started off well enough, as all well-intentioned stories do. The Bendigo Writers’ Festival’s marketing for their August event had gushingly told potential attendees all throughout 2025 that this year would be a festival for ‘readers, writers and creative thinkers’ (except for people thinking creatively about genocide, however we digress) and more importantly that, “this…

Following the lead of ousted Senator Fatima Payman, Prime Minister Albanese this week reversed his long-held position of ignoring the ALP’s platform, announcing Australia will recognise the statehood of Palestine at the UN in September.  The remnants of the glacial, melting western liberal order, Macron in France, Carney in Canada, and Starmer in the UK,…

If you ask those who take part in debate content, it’s just the modern version of important discourse to find solutions to the world’s problems. If you ask those who make the content, it’s easy viral content. If you ask those who watch it, it’s just WWE style entertainment. All those people are partially right,…