Deputy editor of @theeconomist’s features section, 1843. Previously international investigations at @tbij & Beirut for @ft. Mostly here for puns.
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Abbie Fielding-Smith retweeted
"We estimate that Mr Trump’s policies will cost the poorest tenth of American households, with average income after taxes and transfers of around $37,000, almost 3% of their income. The richest tenth, with average after-tax incomes of nearly $500,000, will gain nearly 3% (see chart 1). Households in the middle, with average income of roughly $100,000, lose more than $400"
Abbie Fielding-Smith retweeted
The British ability to behave as if the entire world was basically Guilford High Street was really the key to its empire-building.
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Nusseibeh was the UAE’s point person on Sudan, according to Justin Lynch, managing director of the Conflict Insights Group research organization. “Throughout this war, she assured other governments that the UAE was not backing the RSF, even as Washington and other capitals knew internally that it was,” he told the AP.
The U.N. secretary-general’s role is to protect civilians from horrors like el-Fasher, Lynch said. “Handing the job over to the diplomat who ran cover for it would be an insult to the survivors.”
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This is a shattering story of life in Sudan as the UAE-backed RSF militia slaughters and rapes people in the city of El Fasher. Hard for me to understand why anybody would think the UAE should be rewarded with the post of UN secretary general.
In four days, it will be a year since the siege of Sudan's El Fashir ended in a bloodbath. This is the story of a group of young doctors, nurses and volunteers who stayed at the last functioning hospital until the very end. With @hafiz54472061 economist.com/interactive/18…
This, by the unstoppable @khoureld, is one of the most extraordinary pieces I’ve ever worked on. There are unforgettable horrors in it, but also amazing moments of bravery and solidarity (and karaoke under drone strikes). Worth every minute of your time economist.com/interactive/18…
Abbie Fielding-Smith retweeted
One of the world's greatest and bravest journalists, full stop. Solidarity.
In an absolutely egregious escalation against press freedom, Egyptian journalist and @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief @Linaattalah has been referred to trial on charges of establishing, managing, and operating a website without a license. Her trial is set to begin this Tuesday, Oct 27.
Abbie Fielding-Smith retweeted
In four days, it will be a year since the siege of Sudan's El Fashir ended in a bloodbath. This is the story of a group of young doctors, nurses and volunteers who stayed at the last functioning hospital until the very end. With @hafiz54472061 economist.com/interactive/18…
As well as being brilliant and funny, Sharon Horgan’s “Youth” also has a great soundtrack. 10/10 for pitch-perfect deployment of Au Pays du Cocaine and Everything in Its Right Place in the opening episode
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eager for journalism's pivot to longform features about local cranks
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This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning:
“Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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The Ritz-Carlton purge, a $1.3bn demand and nine years trapped in Saudi Arabia ft.trib.al/Andx0wY
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1/2 Anthropic's latest report on detecting misuse of AI contains this case of an anti-Muslim Brotherhood campaign by the UAE. It includes a sockpuppet network of 300 accounts. But they also produced smears against UN-special rapporteurs which had criticised UAE conduct in Sudan
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Wild investigation
1/ A week ago, a LinkedIn ad for a site called the @levantinereport came up in my feed.
Curious, I started to dig.
The subsequent journey took me to Hong Kong, North Macedonia, Brussels, New Jersey, Israel and Dubai, Sudan and three other websites.
Read on 👉
#dysinfluence
Abbie Fielding-Smith retweeted
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
