Asteris Masouras
@asteris.bsky.social
Freelance journo/global newsfilter; Global Voices, ex-reported.ly; human rights, film/games/scifi geek. Social justice/stay human.
Same handle on Twitter, Mastodon.
Same handle on Twitter, Mastodon.
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Asteris Masouras
@asteris.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Make a difference: support independent news and translation!
We are a very low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of our funding goes directly into staff pay. Even small amounts go a long way.
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We are a very low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of our funding goes directly into staff pay. Even small amounts go a long way.
Support Global Voices now: globalvoices.org/donate/
Make a difference: support independent news and translation!
Make a difference: support independent news and translation! We've launched a new donation campaign to manage international funding cuts Support Global Voices You can make a difference by supporting local news, analysis, translation, and languages arou...
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Support our work to keep us going! Global Voices is a unique community of authors, activists and translators from all over the globe, and its work is vital at this time of systematic disinformation, mistrust and intolerance.
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These reflections from these contributors remind us why it is important to ensure that the Global Voices Newsroom is sustainable.
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Behind the story: Safa documents the denial of Palestinian childhood
As part of our "Behind the Story" challenge fundraising campaign, we feature Safa from Palestine who shares why working on a particular story was important. Please consider donating to keep GV strong.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
These reflections from these contributors remind us why it is important to ensure that the Global Voices Newsroom is sustainable.
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Our editors, writers, translators, and readers make Global Voices what it is.
It’s not just media — it’s community.
Help us thrive for the next 20 years.
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community.globalvoices.org/2025/11/behi...
It’s not just media — it’s community.
Help us thrive for the next 20 years.
globalvoices.org/donate/ to #KeepGVStrong
community.globalvoices.org/2025/11/behi...
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our editors, writers, translators, and readers make Global Voices what it is.
It’s not just media — it’s community.
Help us thrive for the next 20 years.
globalvoices.org/donate/ to #KeepGVStrong
community.globalvoices.org/2025/11/behi...
It’s not just media — it’s community.
Help us thrive for the next 20 years.
globalvoices.org/donate/ to #KeepGVStrong
community.globalvoices.org/2025/11/behi...
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Please help us to keep publishing brilliant, multilingual, community-driven stories from all over the world! We really do run on a shoestring, but with all the funding cuts even that has become difficult. If you appreciate our articles, please support!
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November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Please help us to keep publishing brilliant, multilingual, community-driven stories from all over the world! We really do run on a shoestring, but with all the funding cuts even that has become difficult. If you appreciate our articles, please support!
globalvoices.org/donate/
globalvoices.org/donate/
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Maybe Global Voices helped you learn something new.
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
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#KeepGVStrong
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Maybe Global Voices helped you learn something new.
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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We don’t have billionaire backers.
We have people.
People like you.
Support 20 years of people-powered media.
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#KeepGVStrong
We have people.
People like you.
Support 20 years of people-powered media.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We don’t have billionaire backers.
We have people.
People like you.
Support 20 years of people-powered media.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
We have people.
People like you.
Support 20 years of people-powered media.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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Is Turkey a state of law? Critics highlight long-standing patterns of politicization and lack of institutional insulation from executive power - my latest for @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/11/02/i...
Is Turkey a state of law?
If the Minguzzi case shines a light on general institutional frailty, the prosecutions of prominent figures in the opposition CHP demonstrate how legal tools are being marshalled for political ends..
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November 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Is Turkey a state of law? Critics highlight long-standing patterns of politicization and lack of institutional insulation from executive power - my latest for @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/11/02/i...
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20 years
🙌 1,200+ volunteer authors
🗣️ 30+ languages
🌎🌍🌏 170+ countries
📢 1 mission: amplify local voices globally.
Celebrate our impact by donating to #KeepGVStrong
globalvoices.org/donate/ 🌱
🙌 1,200+ volunteer authors
🗣️ 30+ languages
🌎🌍🌏 170+ countries
📢 1 mission: amplify local voices globally.
Celebrate our impact by donating to #KeepGVStrong
globalvoices.org/donate/ 🌱
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
20 years
🙌 1,200+ volunteer authors
🗣️ 30+ languages
🌎🌍🌏 170+ countries
📢 1 mission: amplify local voices globally.
Celebrate our impact by donating to #KeepGVStrong
globalvoices.org/donate/ 🌱
🙌 1,200+ volunteer authors
🗣️ 30+ languages
🌎🌍🌏 170+ countries
📢 1 mission: amplify local voices globally.
Celebrate our impact by donating to #KeepGVStrong
globalvoices.org/donate/ 🌱
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We translate resistance. We explain the context. We humanize the news.
Help us keep going — and growing.
Donate now.
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#KeepGVStrong
Help us keep going — and growing.
Donate now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We translate resistance. We explain the context. We humanize the news.
Help us keep going — and growing.
Donate now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Help us keep going — and growing.
Donate now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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Your donation doesn’t go to fancy offices.
It goes to writers, translators, editors — real people building a better internet.
Support Global Voices.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
It goes to writers, translators, editors — real people building a better internet.
Support Global Voices.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Your donation doesn’t go to fancy offices.
It goes to writers, translators, editors — real people building a better internet.
Support Global Voices.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
It goes to writers, translators, editors — real people building a better internet.
Support Global Voices.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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It helps that he has the personality of an AI bot
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It helps that he has the personality of an AI bot
Oh, this went through yesterday? I tried for 10' to post it and gave up. (On X, it'd be censorship, Bluesky is just extremely clunky, esp. on mobile.)
Over on the "hellsite," I've curated the first few hours of reactions, mostly of Palestinians, to the ceasefire announcement. Because on this site, apparently no one cares about the genocide.
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Oh, this went through yesterday? I tried for 10' to post it and gave up. (On X, it'd be censorship, Bluesky is just extremely clunky, esp. on mobile.)
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Maybe Global Voices helped you learn something new.
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
October 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Maybe Global Voices helped you learn something new.
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Maybe it helped you feel seen.
Maybe it sparked your activism.
If it moved you, support it now.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Over on the "hellsite," I've curated the first few hours of reactions, mostly of Palestinians, to the ceasefire announcement. Because on this site, apparently no one cares about the genocide.
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Over on the "hellsite," I've curated the first few hours of reactions, mostly of Palestinians, to the ceasefire announcement. Because on this site, apparently no one cares about the genocide.
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📌Η ατιμωρησία του Ισραήλ για τις κατάφωρες παραβιάσεις του διεθνούς δικαίου μετράει δεκαετίες και πρέπει να τερματιστεί.
📢Τίποτα δεν μπορεί να δικαιολογήσει τη γενοκτονία.
📢Τίποτα δεν μπορεί να δικαιολογήσει τη γενοκτονία.
October 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
📌Η ατιμωρησία του Ισραήλ για τις κατάφωρες παραβιάσεις του διεθνούς δικαίου μετράει δεκαετίες και πρέπει να τερματιστεί.
📢Τίποτα δεν μπορεί να δικαιολογήσει τη γενοκτονία.
📢Τίποτα δεν μπορεί να δικαιολογήσει τη γενοκτονία.
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This is another of those weeks when we have too many excellent, important stories to fit them all in the highlights. Please support us to continue our important work.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is another of those weeks when we have too many excellent, important stories to fit them all in the highlights. Please support us to continue our important work.
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Israel's army issues 'final warning' for hundreds of thousands of people to flee main urban centre as attacks escalate.
Israel’s navy seizes last flotilla boat as army levels Gaza City
Israel's army issues 'final warning' for hundreds of thousands of people to flee main urban centre as attacks escalate.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Israel's army issues 'final warning' for hundreds of thousands of people to flee main urban centre as attacks escalate.
The genocide continues, every goddamn day.
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The genocide continues, every goddamn day.
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Premature babies being evacuated from Gaza City as Israel annihilates everything around them using remote-controlled vehicles
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
![A medical worker prepares to evacuate a premature baby from al-Helo International Hospital,
to be transported to southern Gaza [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evgc4ukadedre3gwsiwygkpz/bafkreib5d4lw4ivabezcnnqga64gd355dxr4k2v6bp377ghis2sk3gdnhm@jpeg)
![A member of the Cadus organisation evacuates a premature baby for further medical care
from Gaza City [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evgc4ukadedre3gwsiwygkpz/bafkreifycx6gbk4gcehjxtr33gm2ngnif5zzebnsewxp5kzb3ma6hlpdca@jpeg)
![Cadus
UNICEF says the situation for babies and mothers in Gaza 'has never been worse' [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evgc4ukadedre3gwsiwygkpz/bafkreiez66r6n4iq6qnuvfdhbq6fjygqzbfsp3zhzs5avwwnsanmn5gfoi@jpeg)
![Ambulances transport premature babies evacuated from Gaza City to a hospital in southern
Gaza [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evgc4ukadedre3gwsiwygkpz/bafkreib7icq5q5d75y6f72ebvjzg2mfqhfijbih7pqr6kgtccycmgd6hdi@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Premature babies being evacuated from Gaza City as Israel annihilates everything around them using remote-controlled vehicles
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Το Marinette, το τελευταίο σκάφος του Global Sumud Flotilla, αναχαιτίστηκε στις 10:29πμ τοπική ώρα, περίπου 42,5 ναυτικά μίλια από τη Γάζα.
Ενα ιστιοπλοικο του Sumud Flotilla που ειχε βλαβη και εμεινε πισω εχει μπει σε πορεία προς την Γαζα μόνο του, λέγεται Marinette www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzMn...
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Το Marinette, το τελευταίο σκάφος του Global Sumud Flotilla, αναχαιτίστηκε στις 10:29πμ τοπική ώρα, περίπου 42,5 ναυτικά μίλια από τη Γάζα.
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In a world of disinformation, local journalism is a lifeline.
Help us translate, publish, and protect it.
Support Global Voices today.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Help us translate, publish, and protect it.
Support Global Voices today.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
October 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In a world of disinformation, local journalism is a lifeline.
Help us translate, publish, and protect it.
Support Global Voices today.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Help us translate, publish, and protect it.
Support Global Voices today.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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As the Gen Z protests shook Kathmandu, violent clashes and crackdowns caused deaths, while journalists who were personally affected vy mob attacks and arson that damaged media offices, making reporting difficult.
‘It is hard to feel neutral’: How Nepal's media covered the Gen Z uprising
As the Gen Z protests shook Kathmandu, violent clashes and crackdowns caused deaths, while journalists who were personally affected vy mob attacks and arson that damaged media offices, making reporting difficult.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
As the Gen Z protests shook Kathmandu, violent clashes and crackdowns caused deaths, while journalists who were personally affected vy mob attacks and arson that damaged media offices, making reporting difficult.
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The internet was supposed to democratize information.
Now, it’s more closed, censored, and weaponized than ever.
Global Voices is still holding the line.
Help us keep doing it.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Now, it’s more closed, censored, and weaponized than ever.
Global Voices is still holding the line.
Help us keep doing it.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
September 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The internet was supposed to democratize information.
Now, it’s more closed, censored, and weaponized than ever.
Global Voices is still holding the line.
Help us keep doing it.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
Now, it’s more closed, censored, and weaponized than ever.
Global Voices is still holding the line.
Help us keep doing it.
globalvoices.org/donate/
#KeepGVStrong
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Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated
Alaa was not defeated!
Alaa was not defeated!
September 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated
Alaa was not defeated!
Alaa was not defeated!
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If you’re in the media covering the Trump antifa news and you do not start every antifa-related sentence by telling your audience what antifa stands for, you are choosing complicity in an ideology that will come after you next.
It means anti-fascism.
Tell your audience where you stand on fascism
It means anti-fascism.
Tell your audience where you stand on fascism
September 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you’re in the media covering the Trump antifa news and you do not start every antifa-related sentence by telling your audience what antifa stands for, you are choosing complicity in an ideology that will come after you next.
It means anti-fascism.
Tell your audience where you stand on fascism
It means anti-fascism.
Tell your audience where you stand on fascism
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This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.
www.businessinsider.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...