Julie Posetti
Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists; Professor of Journalism, City, University of London. Board member, Independent Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). Research Associate @ RISJ, University of Oxford. Australian in Oxford.
- Reposted by Julie Posetti@julieposetti.bsky.social introducing the term ‘slopaganda’ - sloppy, inaccurate, badly misleading information produced by many AI tools. She’s chairing a panel with Louis Coiffait-Gunn (CILIP), Lucy Crompton-Reid (WMUK) and Bill Thompson (BBC) on promoting the public interest. #KnowledgeIsHuman
- 📢 🗞️ Published today: #DisarmingDisinformation🇺🇸 - 💡 86% of Americans have seen or heard journalists being harassed or abused online, indicating a normalisation of such attacks and reflecting unprecedented political targeting of the U.S. press. Read the full study: www.icfj.org/disarming-di...
- Reposted by Julie Posetti“In Haiti, people are looking for ‘glory days’ — and the glory days [back then] was a dictatorship.” Garry Pierre-Pierre on how authoritarian nostalgia is weaponized at a #ZEG2025 panel alongside @antelava.bsky.social and Jillian Green, moderated by @julieposetti.bsky.social .
- 🔊 ❗️JUST PUBLISHED: Our first report from the Disarming Disinformation project, a five country (🇧🇷 🇬🇪 🇿🇦 🇵🇭 🇺🇸) study of journalistic responses and public perceptions. 🚀 First off the blocks is Brazil report, which should resonate strongly with 🇺🇸 journalists. www.icfj.org/news/disarmi...
- This, from @bruceshapiro.bsky.social on another platform, is one of the most cogent reflections I’ve read from an American about that horrendous Oval Office “episode”. The second sentence resonates most acutely for me.
- Back to the future. All over again. Dr Seuss’ 1941 cartoon seems ever more prescient.
- WORD ⚔️ : “And if ever we needed a saga of a woman dispatching the pernicious, encroaching forces of evil, it would be now!” ⚔️ variety.com/2025/tv/news...
- Happy 21st of December - it’s #GravyDay! Named for Paul Kelly’s iconic Australian Christmas song “How to Make Gravy”, this day inevitably turns my 🇦🇺 home sickness into tears. Every character and Christmas cracker of a cultural narrative nugget in this song resonates youtu.be/iYqIF2XkqKU
- Conflict, catastrophe & converging crises. How to make sense of the global chaos? codastory.bsky.social joins the dots between the ousting of Assad, Russia’s capture of Georgia, the war in Ukraine & Trump’s election. Live online today @ 1700 GMT - register here 👉🏻 www.eventbrite.com/e/coda-live-...
- Reposted by Julie Posetti“First, I was protesting with my friends, but I wanted to do more.” Meet Nestan, 14 year old documenting the Georgia protests. So much wisdom and such incredible images. So proud that we get to publish it Follow @codastory.bsky.social for more coverage www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiDonald Trump’s re-election has chilling implications for journalism - from attacks and threats to defunding public media. @julieposetti.bsky.social Kaylee Williams & I set out some of the challenges: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiBy which I mean, I'm pretty sure traffic from @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is *significantly* higher than the very obvious 2x that of Threads This post brought to you by a reply to @mkarolian.bsky.social on Threads, where it has had just 105 engagements, as opposed to the 18k+ here
- Reposted by Julie Posettiwhile Bluesky traffic is already 2x that of Threads, that's on a straight l.threads.net vs bsky.app referral comparison. BUT! 75-80% of tracked referral from owned Bluesky account posts is NOT being attributed to @bsky.app, so I'm certain organic traffic would be undercounting by that much as well
- Reposted by Julie PosettiTraffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
- Sending cheerful, hopeful vibes from the Cape of Good Hope [AKA the Cape of Storms] 🇿🇦 with @mariaressa.bsky.social & @dailymaverick.bsky.social’s Branko Brkic. Pinning this image, from a sunny Sunday Cape Town roadtrip, at the front of my mind to remind me what we’re fighting for in dark times.
- Reposted by Julie PosettiWhat could a second Trump presidency mean for journalists? Read ICFJ Deputy VP of Global Research @julieposetti.bsky.social, Research Associate Kaylee Williams and Mel Bunce’s answer: theconversation.com/how-trumps-w...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiTo review: ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017 SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
- “Violence takes the worst of us and peace takes the best of us”- Matthews Phosa, a key ANC official who negotiated the birth of South Africa’s democracy. “Mandela told us ‘Don’t be bitter - you must rise above your bitterness & pain…there must be a common victory for the negotiators.’” #WM12Assembly
- At the #WM12Assembly in Johannesburg 🇿🇦, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social describes the Russian disinformation tactic of destroying the “psychological infrastructure” of democracy by seeding the desire for a strongman leader to “save us” from all the chaos and confusion (fed by the disinformation swamp)
- @antelava.bsky.social @mariaressa.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Peter is on fire 🔥 In Johannesburg
- Reposted by Julie PosettiTrump just tweeted this link with “REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL!” He’s really going to go after journalists.
- “The more information you have, the more you are in the know and the more you are free” - clarion testimony from jailed news publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai in a Hong Kong 🇭🇰 court today. He faces a potential life sentence #FreeJimmyLai www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiRappler built a matrix protocol chat app - a federated global news ecosystem is how journalism survives. Here's why: www.rappler.com/voices/thoug... @rappler.bsky.social
- President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in office promises to deliver historic threats to U.S. #pressfreedom - directly from the Oval Office. American journalists and news outlets need to learn how to fight these threats from their colleagues in autocracies. theconversation.com/how-trumps-w...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiConfirmation that Bluesky, not Threads, is the platform of choice for those who recently quit X: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiAs the world attempts to process the consequences of Trump’s victory; #Sudan’s horrendous civil war grinds on. #Rape of #women & #girls now commonplace to the point that some contemplate #suicide to avoid sexual assault. Watch our report on this week’s The 51 Percent here ⬇️ @france24.bsky.social
- Reposted by Julie PosettiThis is a nightmare scenario. Musk and Ramaswamy will dismantle the federal workforce - putting hundreds of thousands - many who are military veterans - out of work. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiMusk’s Twitter is the entire proxy for Murdoch’s Fox….I want to excavate the opinions of those who, two years ago, simpered that his takeover was ‘the market behaving as it should’ , and that Twitter would just shrivel on the vine and be replaced - no big deal.
- Hello to all the new folks fleeing the Hell site of the #Broligarchy who have followed me here over the past five days. I’ve been largely lurking since I joined BlueSky, but it’s time to re-engage on a non-Meta platform because this is an era for anti-misogyny, anti-racism, pro-democracy solidarity
- “Democracy and rules-based order are on the brink of collapse… truth is decaying, while disinformation and hate speech continue to spread. And independent journalism is under attack like never before” - Can Yeginsu in a clarion, sobering keynote speech at the OSCE in Vienna this afternoon.
- NEW RESEARCH: Surveilled, ‘assassinated’ on social media, targeted by her president, and subjected to orchestrated trolling, Mexican investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui’s experience of #OnlineViolence signals an escalating threat #EndImpunity www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
- Reposted by Julie PosettiBreaks my heart to see a platform that sparked a revolution in real-time reporting & open-source investigation handed over to grifters trading in graphic suffering. The truth always struggled to keep pace with the lie on Twitter but now the lie is the business model. www.wired.com/story/x-isra...
- Reposted by Julie Posetti""To be clear, online OSINT investigations can cause trauma, severe trauma. This is something that people rarely talk about and it’s highly underestimated by many." Applies to researchers as well, academic or general interest. www.dutchosintguy.com/post/vicario...
