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Lydia McMullan

@lydia-rachel.bsky.social

Head of visual and data journalism @guardian

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Lydia McMullan@lydia-rachel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’ve long known that far-right ideas get amplified on social media, but trying to work out by how much – and what impact this has on everyday users – is like trying to pin down a drop of mercury.

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

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Kaamil Ahmed@kaamilahmed.bsky.social · last yr.

“You always know that it could be you who gets shot, or it might be someone next to you.” This is in the minds of Palestinians who see death when they seek aid from the GHF militarised food distribution sites. Still they go because they have no choice www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisis England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of prisoners and to the repression of crime … It resolves itself into a greater uniformity of plan and purpose than has yet been exhibited in prison architecture. The Illustrated London News in its coverage of the new facility on August 13, 1842. The piers or partitions between them are 18 inches thick, and are worked with close joints, so as to preclude as much as possible the transmission of sound. A description of HMP Pentonville in the Illustrated London News, 1843 Continue reading...

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Ana Lucía González@anlugonz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to hear that our story depicting the sonic hellscape that people in Gaza have to endure, day and night, has been shortlisted for the #AmnestyMediaAwards (w/ @kaamilahmed.bsky.social @lydia-rachel.bsky.social Pip Lev and Ellen Wishhart) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘I hate the night’: life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war - visual story

Their hopes for peace fading and fearful of being forgotten, two Gazans share the trauma of living their days and nights surrounded by the noise of gunfire, missiles and drones

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