Today is World AIDS Day, and for the first time since its inception in 1988, the U.S. government will not be commemorating it. Trent Straube from POZ Magazine writes about the stats on HIV and AIDS, and the impact of the Trump administration. "Although new HIV rates have declined overall, progress is imperiled due to funding cuts and a hostile administration in the White House," writes Straube.
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World AIDS Day 2025
This year’s World AIDS Day theme is "Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response." Click to learn the latest statistics.
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Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰 Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.   404 Meda, @npub1psar...j5uh 
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The Conversation, @The Conversation U.S.   The Transmitter, @npub17rvd...w9lk   The Tyee, @npub1ccc2...32l5 
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The Tucson Sentinel, @npub1cr5n...z86c   Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @Tim Mak   #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday
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How do conspiracy theories develop and proliferate, and what are the best tactics to quash them? Extensive research focused on Europe, led by a team at King's College London, indicates that it depends where you are. In the U.K., concerns over COVID lockdowns led to conspiracy theories about restriction of movement in "15-minute cities." In the Baltic states, fear of hidden elites is fueled by memories of Nazi and Soviet occupation. "These ideas are spreading in all parts of society. If we want to tackle the problem of conspiracy theories, it’s not enough to turn off a particular pipeline, such as putting restrictions on a specific social media platform or shutting down someone’s account," says Professor Clare Birchall, who led the research. "We need to think about structural problems in society as well as the business models of platforms. And instead of focusing on why people don’t trust institutions and politicians, we should work on making them worthy of trust."
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One size does not fit all for combatting conspiracy theories in Europe, says new research | King's College London
A continuous feedback loop of media reporting, political opportunism, protest groups and social media algorithms are fuelling the spread of conspir...
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Today, for Trans Day of Remembrance, [@LGBTQNation](
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Trans Remembrance & Awareness
Trans Day of Remembrance and Awareness Week highlight both the challenges and the resilience of trans communities. This collection brings together ...
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A couple of months ago, Nicholas Hune-Brown, an editor at Toronto's The Local magazine, received a pitch from Victoria Goldiee, who appeared to be an up-and-coming freelancer, with bylines in The Cut, The Guardian and Dwell. He assigned her a story about healthcare privatization. And then he began to look at her work. Here's how he discovered she was a scammer — but perhaps, still completely real.
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guard...
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The details of journalist Olivia Nuzzi's affair with RFK Jr. may only be of interest to media folks, but The Handbasket's Marisa Kabas say the story is relevant to all of us as yet another example of "a crisis of elite control of journalism and of profound rot." Here's her full piece.
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Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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