Election officials prepare to combat misinformation as the 2022 midterms approach

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This sto­ry, plus some Mus­lim groups are crit­i­ciz­ing CNN for hir­ing NYPD deputy com­mis­sion­er John Miller, Condé Nast work­ers win recog­ni­tion of their union and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Sep 11, 2022Fighting bogus claims a grow­ing pri­or­i­ty in elec­tion office­sAli Swen­son, Julie Carr Smyth / The Asso­ci­at­ed Press Sep 9, 2022Muslim […]…

Cameroon Civil War

The Civ­il War in Cameroon, long pre­dict­ed by experts, con­tin­ues into its sev­enth year, and with­out an end in sight. The Paul Biya admin­is­tra­tion has made lit­tle effort in attempt­ing to resolve the issue. Mean­while, Cameroon­ian anglo­phone groups, most of them sta­tioned abroad, espe­cial­ly in the US, have made lit­tle head­way in their attempts to…

Biden’s Africa strategy seeks to revitalize ties with the continent

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022–08–10T131424Z_910877386_RC2PTV9ZT4SD_RTRMADP_3_USA-AFRICA-CONGO.jpg?w=270 Pres­i­dent Biden is deliv­er­ing on his com­mit­ment to make Africa a pri­or­i­ty for the Unit­ed States.  Most notable is his administration’s sharp uptick in U.S. diplo­ma­cy toward the region. With vis­its to Kenya, Nige­ria, and Sene­gal last Novem­ber, Moroc­co and Alge­ria in March, and South Africa, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go, and Rwanda…

Biden’s Defense Chief Puts Alliances at Center Stage of U.S. Defense

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Lloyd-Austin-GettyImages-1241337940.jpgWel­come back to For­eign Pol­i­cy’s SitRep! Jack and Rob­bie here, chuck­ling at Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelenksy’s vis­i­ble dis­com­fort with French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron’s PDA dur­ing his vis­it to Kyiv, Ukraine’s cap­i­tal, today. Alright, back to work. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: U.S. Defense Sec­re­tary Lloyd Austin tries to walk and chew gum between deterring…

DHS pauses controversial Disinformation Governance Board

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This sto­ry, plus Meta cre­ates new glob­al media part­ner­ships team, Chris Wal­lace to lead new show on CNN Sun­day line­up and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries May 18, 2022 May 19, 2022 May 18, 2022 Local News May 18, 2022 Social Media May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 Press & Gov­ern­ment May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 About Mis­in­for­ma­tion May…

Where Foreign Correspondents Capitulated to Autocracy

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/2plDsX419WN-NEHCWNv91W0l240=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/04/AP22116510820035/original.jpg When Allan Au didn’t post his Wor­dle score on Face­book one morn­ing this month, his friends began to wor­ry. For Au, a long­time jour­nal­ist and media train­er in Hong Kong, the rit­u­al was less about flex­ing his vocab­u­lary skills than a delib­er­ate way to indi­cate that he was still free. His friends, it turned…