Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Social Media • Technology

Resistance Media

The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’

Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism

Judd Legum — Popular Information

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal

As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

Corruption • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Nick Akerman — Legal Politics by Nick Akerman

A Single Newspaper Reported Investigating Trump's Sexual Assault of a Minor

The Post and Courier, published a second article detailing its continuing investigation into a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by Donald Trump.

Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom

Matt Gertz — Media Matters

Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Democracy • Disinformation • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

Karl Grossman — FAIR

Rupert Murdoch Heads West

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Journalism • Social Media

Parker Molloy — The New Republic

The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Russia

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon?

When we place Trump’s bizarre, unprecedented secrecy next to Epstein’s emails in which the billionaire pedophile tells European and Russian contacts that he could offer “insight” into Trump, the outlines of a deeply troubling possibility emerge.

Democracy • Fascism • Journalism • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

They told us this would happen.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Violence

Dan Froomkin — Press Watch

Lawless police-state raid of Chicago apartment building demands more attention

A massive civil rights violation right in front of our eyes -- if we don't avert them

Artificial Intelligence • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Media • Technology

Jake Lahut — Wired

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Russia • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson — The New York Times

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

BrieAnna J. Frank — USA Today

Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Margaret Sullivan — The Guardian

The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

Katherine Jacobsen — Committee to Protect Journalists

Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days

The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Irene Khan — United Nations Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council Report: Journalists in exile

The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

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