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Media Storm@mediastormpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news ‘Think tanks’ with highly opaque funding sell bogus research on highly political topics. How do these fake facts become headlines? When you trace the money, it tells a terrifying story. 🎙️ @peterjukes.bsky.social ⬇️ LISTEN

🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news ‘Think tanks’ with highly opaque funding sell bogus research on highly political topics. How do these fake facts become headlines? When you trace the money, it tells a terrifying story. 🎙️ @peterjukes.bsky.social ⬇️ LISTEN

Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news

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🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers ❓How does the media turn science into clickbait? 👂Hear from the leading expert on the wellness industrial complex, @debscohen.bsky.social ⬇️ LISTEN

Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers

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Do we need to change the voting system? That’s the question we ask on this episode with Mark Kieran from @openbritain.bsky.social and Shaun Roberts from @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social 🗳️ Listen ⬇️🎧

Do we need to change the voting system?

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If, like me, you didn't know that several of the players in the men's world cup have been credibly accused of rape/sexual assault, but still allowed to play, it might be worth giving this episode a listen. Especially if you just thought "innocent until proven guilty."

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🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ News Watch: ➡️ Why are accused and convicted rapists playing in the World Cup? ➡️ What really went wrong for Starmer? 🎙️ @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7xo3...

🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ News Watch: ➡️ Why are accused and convicted rapists playing in the World Cup? ➡️ What really went wrong for Starmer? 🎙️ @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7xo3...

News Watch: World Cup rapists - and what really went wrong for Starmer

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Who pays for hate & clickbait? 🎙️Listen to Richard Wilson, founder of @stopfundinghate.bsky.social on Media Storm this week ⬇️ Link below

Ad-funded news: Who pays for hate & clickbait?

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Great to see Stop Funding Hate featured in this week's @mediastormpod.bsky.social - with the excellent @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social Listen here: mediastormpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine Why do countries spend money to avoid the ‘migrant crisis’, rather than to solve it? 🎙️ @mathildamall.bsky.social @helenawadia.bsky.social

Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine

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You wonder what ‘generations of European elites’ refers to; it’s the Habsburg family amongst others who fund far-right activity to restore aristo power 🤯. All covered in this excellent journalism by @mediastormpod.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?

Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 21 May · 48min

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Our investigative tech reporter @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social was on the @mediastormpod.bsky.social podcast this week discussing Palantir, surveillance states, and more. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️ open.spotify.com/episode/7vOi...

Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK

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🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️ Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK Did you know the UK is one of the five most surveilled countries in the world? 🗣️ Jasleen Chaggar from @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social 🗣️ @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social

Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK

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📺 NEWS WATCH 📺 🦠 Hantavirus v Ebola: what does our news coverage tell us about Western bias? 📰 Teen boys who r*ped two teenage girls in Hampshire had a history of sexual violence. Why did only one article mention this? 🎙️ hosts: @helenawadia.bsky.social @mathildamall.bsky.social

News Watch: Hantavirus v Ebola. Teenage rapists avoid jail.

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🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️ After articles comparing ‘angry young women’ to the manosphere went viral, we ask: What is the media's real aim behind these lazy comparisons? And the femosphere even real, or did the media manufacture it? open.spotify.com/episode/5qEX...

Angry Young Women: Did the media manufacture the femosphere?

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We kicked off our new series in partnership with @openbritain.bsky.social with an episode on FOREIGN INTERFERENCE in UK DEMOCRACY. 🎙️Who bankrolled Brexit & Britain’s far-right? With 🗣️ @sangitamyska.bsky.social 🗣️ Sergei Cristo open.spotify.com/episode/3QLA...

Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?

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A good moment to flag the most recent episode of @mediastormpod.bsky.social which mentions various kinds of dark money from European funders, many of which are very pro reviving the aristocracy.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Aristocratic resurgence? Widening appeal moves up in the social scale.

NEW EPISODE: Maternity, midwives & the media How many times have you read a headline that UK maternity services are in ‘crisis’? And how many times have you really understood why they’re in crisis? Midwives @leahhazard.bsky.social & Illiyin Morrison help us make sense of the press👇

Blame, shame and pain: Maternity, midwives and the media

Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 2 April · 50min

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Pleasure to speak to @mediastormpod.bsky.social’s @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social this week

Media Storm@mediastormpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Banks and hedge funds are allowed to use UK courts to sue poor countries facing debt distress. Sound fair to you? @mariafinnerty.bsky.social from @cafod.bsky.social, breaks down the corrupt system that fuels the global debt crisis. @christianaiduk.bsky.social @debtjustice.bsky.social

Our Lead Economist, @mariafinnerty.bsky.social, went on the @mediastormpod.bsky.social to explain more about the global debt crisis and the massive role played by English law.

Media Storm@mediastormpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Banks and hedge funds are allowed to use UK courts to sue poor countries facing debt distress. Sound fair to you? @mariafinnerty.bsky.social from @cafod.bsky.social, breaks down the corrupt system that fuels the global debt crisis. @christianaiduk.bsky.social @debtjustice.bsky.social

Banks and hedge funds are allowed to use UK courts to sue poor countries facing debt distress. Sound fair to you? @mariafinnerty.bsky.social from @cafod.bsky.social, breaks down the corrupt system that fuels the global debt crisis. @christianaiduk.bsky.social @debtjustice.bsky.social

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Modern slavery is thriving: the media just isn’t telling you

Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 12 March · 1h 1m

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I’m probably late to the party but just discovered @mediastormpod.bsky.social fantastic show - thank you and keep up the fight!

Hab ne sehr gute Folge von nem Podcast dazu gehört. @mediastormpod.bsky.social hatten vor allem drin, dass den marginalisierten Jugendlichen deren primäre Informations- und Vernetzungsplattformen genommen werden. Hörempfehlung!

The week we saw an explosive & important report from the @nytimes.com on the US anti-abortion movement's aims for the UK, I spoke to @mediastormpod.bsky.social about my long-term research into the anti-abortion movement, its funding, networks & ideology open.spotify.com/episode/4sB4...

What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?

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🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common? Funding, for one thing. Political frontmen, for another. The question is why? 🗣️ With the excellent @sianushka.bsky.social 🎙️ Hosted by @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social

What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?

Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 16/10/2025 · 49m

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The flotilla has already been attacked by drones. Now they're being branded as "terrorists" by the Israeli government. Mathilda explains why she's there, and why breaking the blockade matters.

Journalists like @mathildamall.bsky.social are aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. Their mission is simple: deliver food, medicine and other essentials to Palestinians in occupied Gaza, who are still trapped under Israel’s unlawful blockade.

Due to team illness, our next episode will be postponed by one week, and will be released on August 28th. We’re very sorry - but it will be worth the wait, we promise! Thank you all for your continued support 💙

You saw the headline - but will you see the correction? When false headlines like this one from The Telegraph get printed on national front pages, the damage is done. A tiny printed correction won’t change that. To hold the media truly accountable, corrections should be as big as headlines.

Telegraph inaccurately calculated 'one in 12 in London is illegal migrant' stat, IPSO finds

The Telegraph's sums to conclude that "one in 12 in London" is an illegal migrant were inaccurate, IPSO has confirmed.

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On today’s News Watch: 👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k? 👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia 👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities? 👉 Japan’s far-right surge 🎙️ Your hosts are @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social LISTEN ⤵️

News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge

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