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Richard Nield
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Investigative journalist & documentary filmmaker covering corruption, disinformation & human rights. Middle East & Africa specialist.
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Edition 11 of perspicacity’s Conflict & Human Rights Update is published! 😊💫 🎉

Featuring:

➡️ assassination of Colombian presidential candidate

➡️ renewed evidence of Gaza genocide

➡️ Kenyan protestors killed by police

➡️ famine in South Sudan

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#humanrights #genocide #famine
Conflict & Human Rights Update #11
Genocide, assassination, famine
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August 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Members of the US Congress House of Representatives have been banned from using WhatsApp due to lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, & potential security risks.

Officials instead recommend Signal, iMessage, Teams.

(via Reuters tinyurl.com/4s6dynar)
WhatsApp banned on US House of Representatives devices, memo shows
Meta disagreed with the move "in the strongest possible terms," a company spokesperson said.
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August 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Proud to be featured in the second edition of the 3Space zine 'Tall Storeys'! Thanks to Lois Stevenson and all at
3space! 😀😎🎉🥳

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August 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Published! 🤩💥 Ed9 of my Media & #Disinformation newsletter, featuring:

➡️ Grok 3 'study' claims humans not responsible for #globalwarming

➡️ Meta fails to prevent advertising of health scams to users

➡️ Russia's disinfo campaign against France

➡️ Trump’s muzzling of US press

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June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US has been by far the largest aid donor to Yemen in the past 5 years. The withdrawal of this aid is having devastating consequences. Featured in Edition 9 of Perspicacity's Conflict & Human Rights newsletter tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#malnutrition #GBV #displacement #Trump #USAID
June 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Venezuela has met protests against the dubious results of the 2024 elections with brutal repression - featuring in the latest Conflict & Human Rights newsletter from Perspicacity tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#HumanRights #repression #elections #Maduro
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Trump White House is repurposing the concept of #terrorism to go after drug cartels, migrants & domestic political opponents, as well as threatening war with Mexico - featured in the latest Conflict & Human Rights update from Perspicacity tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#WarOnTerror #Terrorism #Trump
June 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Myanmar's military carried out dozens of air strikes despite announcing a ceasefire in the aftermath of the country's worst earthquake in decades - read more in the latest Conflict & Human Rights update from perspicacity tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Israeli leaders are seeking to take away the Islamist group’s capacity to govern #Gaza by targeting its top civilian administrators and blowing up what remains of the enclave’s public infrastructure - more in the latest Conflict & #HumanRights update from Perspicacity

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June 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
France has accused Russia over cyberattacks against the country spanning more than a decade. Featured in Ed9 of Perspicacity's Conflict & Human Rights update tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#cybercrime #cyberwarfare
June 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Sudanese military recaptured Khartoum, but war rages on with foreign support, and there's a risk of conflict spreading to #Chad and #SouthSudan - featured in the latest Conflict & Human Rights newsletter from Perspicacity tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#HumanRights #Sudan #Conflict #RSF
June 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Arbitrary detention has become a cornerstone of Tunisia's repressive policies, aimed at depriving citizens of their rights - featuring in Edition 9 of Perspicacity's Conflict & Human Rights update tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v

#Tunisia #repression #humanrights
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#China is exporting its #repression playbook to its overseas operations - featuring in Ed9 of Perspicacity's Conflict & Human Rights update tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v
June 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Witchcraft accusations in Ghana are driving elderly and disadvantaged women from their homes - featuring in the latest Conflict & Human Rights newsletter from Perspicacity

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#humanrights #witchcraft
June 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Published! 🎉🎉 #Conflict & #HumanRights Update 9, featuring: the tools of China’s overseas repression, Russian cyberattacks in France, the plight of those accused of witchcraft in Ghana, & the US gov’s reframing of #terrorism to include domestic opponents tinyurl.com/2fbtzx9v #elections #displacement
Conflict and Human Rights Update #9
Aid cuts, witchcraft, and the new war on 'terror'
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June 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Generative AI search tools returned incorrect information 60% of the time in this test of their ability to retrieve and cite specific content by @columjournreview.bsky.social and the @towcenter.bsky.social. Grok was wrong an astonishing 94% of the time.

#AI #media #misinformation
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The war in Gaza has had a catastrophic impact on food production, with three quarters of its cropland damaged or destroyed, according to the @cen4infores.bsky.social

#humanrights #warcrimes #malnutrition

For this & more on conflict & human rights issues:
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May 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Published! Ed7 of my newsletter on international Crime & Corruption.

This edition features industrial-scale scam centres in N Korea & Myanmar; trafficking of cocaine & fentanyl in Latam and synthetic drug Captagon in Syria; the resilience of the Sicilian mafia...

(1/2)

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Crime & Corruption Update #7
Scam centres, fentanyl and the Sicilian mafia
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May 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In Egypt, public prosecutors neglect to investigate torture of police detainees

via @arijnetwork.bsky.social

#humanrights #torture #Egypt
April 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
April 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Governments may suck, but people are kind. An antidote to the current global moment. My latest Substack post on perspicacity - On the Kindness of Strangers

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On the kindness of strangers
Governments may suck, but people are kind
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March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#Meta stops fact-checking, China launches #DeepSeek, China & Russia interfere in elections in Spain, Germany & Croatia, EU investigates X support for German far right.

Read more in latest edition of perspicacity @ tinyurl.com/y9ajdj24 😊

#disinformation #influenceoperations #electioninterference
March 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My latest international Crime & Corruption update!

- how Iran moves sanctioned oil
- Chinese suppliers behind ads for deadly opioids targeting Europe
- evolution of migrant smuggling on French coast
- organised crime fueling M23 crisis in eastern DRC

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February 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Deep (and easy) fakes, the liar's dividend & the fatal consequences of disinformation -

#1 in a series from the brilliant #disinformation conference in Riga organised by @disinfo.eu

@matybohacek.bsky.social @melissafleming.bsky.social @dfrlab.bsky.social

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#AI #Disinfo2024
AI and the liar's dividend
Notes from Riga: The disinformation challenge
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February 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Richard Nield
Donald Trump Jr has also shared this fake E! News video about USAID, which is the work of a well-known Russian influence operation that creates fake videos of major news outlets to disparage Ukraine.

This fake video now has more than 8 million views on X.
February 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM