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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 1d

thank you team SFH

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

More background here on France's CNEWs, a TV channel owned by a billionaire and notorious for airing inflammatory content targeting migrants, Muslims and LGBTQ+ people... www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/w...

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 1d

Same problem in France, where although "opinion" (i.e. editorial) channels are prohibited to broadcast via the public distribution system, ARCOM ( French equivalent to Ofcom) has done little to nothing against #Cnews since mid-2024.

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

"Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 2d

Outrageous!

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the Daily Mail really did publish a whole article today complaining about black people appearing in adverts...

Today's Daily Mail advertisers include Lloyds Bank, Lidl, Imagine Cruising and ROL Cruises

Screenshot of a Daily Mail article with the headline "Why are so many adverts now more interested in diversity than in the reality of British life?". At the top of the article are two images of black people featuring in advertisements.

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 2d

Our full support goes to Gisèle Pelicot who has to go through the trauma of a retrial.
It is of course a fundamental right to be able to appeal your conviction. No one contests this. One cannot but wonder how difficult it is for the victim, for her.

Courage, Madame Pelicot!

Gisèle Pelicot to attend appeals court as man convicted of raping her contests verdict

Husamettin Dogan, 44, was sentenced to nine years in prison at trial of 51 men last year that found them all guilty

www.theguardian.com

Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 2d

100%

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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 3d

Mediapart has identified at least nine former members or candidates of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party implicated in far-right terrorism cases, including a trial concerning the Islamophobic group Action des Forces Opérationnelles (AFO).

L’ombre du RN plane sur des dossiers terroristes

Au moins neuf hommes condamnés ou en attente d’un procès dans des affaires de terrorisme d’extrême droite ont exercé des responsabilités au sein du Rassemblement national ou l’ont représenté à des él…

www.mediapart.fr

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly but we would like to see the follow-up, we are all far beyond the point where just words suffice. Action is needed, not discourse or threats of fines.

Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 3d

there is...
let's talk about what you need (we are quite busy but always happy to help)

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson launched his henchmen against @radiofrance.fr 's London correspondent Gaële Joly.
Please join us in lending her support and condemn the multi-convicted hater's cyberbullying.

"C'est vraiment un mec d'extrême droite" : qui est Tommy Robinson, activiste à l'origine d'une marche "pour la liberté d'expression" à Londres ?

Des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont attendues samedi à Londres à l'appel de Tommy Robinson, figure de l'extrême droite britannique, pour ce qu'il présente comme un rassemblement "pour la libert...

www.franceinfo.fr

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 5d

It would be even better -and even less naive- if Emmanuel Macron drew conclusions from this and ordered French government institutions to close their accounts on these harmful platforms and migrate to more virtuous ones 🙃

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

www.youtube.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 7d

Last week, Trump declared “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization.

This is why the far-right in the US & Canada see it as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their smash-and-grab of the political establishment. 👇

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www.antihate.ca/trump_lying_...

Trump is Lying About Antifascism

As an antifascist organization ourselves, we can help explain antifascism and why the far-right in the United States and Canada see us as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their...

www.antihate.ca

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 13d

If you want to know more about former French president Sarkozy's conviction and 5 year jail sentence, go to the source
@mediaparten.bsky.social ✊

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 13d

So ein Pech, wird er sich einsellnern ?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 14d

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

4 panel comic

Panel 1: On the left hand side of the panel a member of the KKK is snivelling like a pissy little baby. A Red Guy and a Purple Guy stand next to him. The Red Guy says to the Purple Guy, “Look what you’ve done”

Panel 2: The Red Guy continues “You’ve upset this poor, sweet racist”
the little KKK bitch whimpers “I don’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 3: The Red Guy goes on with disgusting sympathy “He doesn’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 4: The Red Guy says “And that’s his FAVOURITE thing to do” he puts his arm around the whiny little pointy robed cunt.

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Jean-Paul Marthoz @jpmarthoz.bsky.social · 14d

Violence is rising and it can come from all sides as polarization increases. Media organizations and journalists should take the necessary measures to protect themselves from assaults and harassment. Even small steps may be helpful.
www.cjr.org/analysis/sec...

News organizations are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence.

Security experts at several news organizations say they are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence.

www.cjr.org

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 15d

Adapting to the needs of those installing fascism and thinking that in contemporary America neutrality is an option is the biggest error NewsGuard can make.

You fight fascism, regardless of what they call you or accuse you of. If you care about journalism and information, you cannot concede.

Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 16d

´Earlier this year, the watchdog NewsGuard announced it was retiring the labels "misinformation" and "disinformation" -– terms it said were "politicized beyond recognition and turned into partisan weapons by actors on the right and the left, and among anti-democratic foreign actors."

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16d

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States.

The label is so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether and opting for "more precise" language

u.afp.com/SWUq

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Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 16d

´Earlier this year, the watchdog NewsGuard announced it was retiring the labels "misinformation" and "disinformation" -– terms it said were "politicized beyond recognition and turned into partisan weapons by actors on the right and the left, and among anti-democratic foreign actors."

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16d

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States.

The label is so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether and opting for "more precise" language

u.afp.com/SWUq

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 17d

Not ours, it's in French. But a simple spreadsheet online or a list would do the trick. Then share wide and far. There are loads of options for a free webpage.

Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 17d

No, not really. SG USA is inactive.

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 17d

Hi Tina,
Best is for someone to scrape the station for ads (it's how we do it RE the tv channel we are targeting), publish the list of advertisers. Then alert them publicly.
Be aware that European citizens are also cancelling Disney subscriptions because of their submission to Trump.

Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · Feb 11

Until we have time to make a "proper" pinned post, enjoy!

#SleepingGiants
#Bannon

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 17d

10 years ago, the Charlie Hebdo attack showed clearly how free speech could be weaponised

Calls for absolute "je suis Charlie" free speech were accompanied with heavy policing of critique and dissent

We learnt nothing and still lap up the (far-) right's hypocrisy on the matter

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 18d

Countries who are refusing entry to the repeat offender?
USA
Canada
Columbia
Panama

a man with the words thoughts & prayers written on his face

ALT: a man with the words thoughts & prayers written on his face

media.tenor.com