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James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

It's easy to hate journalists, it's easy to hate the mainstream media. Here's something that's hard, though: working in Venezuela, village after village, to find out who Trump and Hegseth have murdered in the name of fighting “narco-terrorism.” They were real people, with names, jobs, and families.

Credit to Regina Garcia Cano and the Associated Press.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea

AP News

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced

One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
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CaliCarol
@jawarajabbi@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

@gleick
Nobody hated journalists/media until they let us down on an epic scale. We appreciate your work, not the headline.

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