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Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) is when multiple accounts work together to push a narrative or target someone while hiding that they are acting as a group. These campaigns use fake identities, shared content, or synchronized posting to make manufactured criticism look organic. On April 26 a hashtag none of... us had seen before, #fake_journalism, flooded Pakistani Twitter with attacks on journalist Matiullah Jan. It looked coordinated from the first hour, so we saved every tweet inside a 58-minute window and went through the accounts one by one. What we found is significant evidence of coordination and inauthenticity. Multiple handles were created on the same two days in February and stayed dormant until that night. Multiple tweets closed with the same three demands in the same order. The same graphic was uploaded individually by account after account. #SochVideos #MatiullahJan #FakeJournalism #Journalism #PressFreedom #Pakistanshow more

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In 1943, Black American soldiers arrived in Lancashire.🇬🇧🇺🇸 Back home, they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as white people. Couldn't drink in the same bars. The locals didn't care about any of that. They said come in. Same pubs. Same pints. Same welcome as everyone else. They danced together. Drank together. Walked through the village together. One soldier said he didn't know he was coloured until he looked in the mirror. Then the US commanders tried to stop it. They demanded the village separate them. Every pub refused. A barmaid called Gillian Vesey served whoever was next. No exceptions. Military police walked into a pub and tried to arrest a soldier for wearing the wrong uniform. A British soldier stood up. "Why do you want to arrest them? They're not doing anything wrong." That night, things turned violent. A soldier was killed. The commanding general blamed the white officers. Racist officers were removed. The soldiers went home. But they carried something with them. The memory of a place that treated them like people. One veteran said: "These soldiers were never going back to accept being treated as less." "None of us were." A small Lancashire village showed them what was possible. Not by marching. Not by protesting. Just by being decent. They didn't think they were being brave. They were just being British.🇬🇧 This is who we are. Help us show the world. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

In 1943, Black American soldiers arrived in Lancashire.🇬🇧🇺🇸 Back home, they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as white people. Couldn't drink in the same bars. The locals didn't care about any of that. They said come in. Same pubs. Same pints. Same welcome as everyone else. They danced together. Drank together. Walked through the village together. One soldier said he didn't know he was coloured until he looked in the mirror. Then the US commanders tried to stop it. They demanded the village separate them. Every pub refused. A barmaid called Gillian Vesey served whoever was next. No exceptions. Military police walked into a pub and tried to arrest a soldier for wearing the wrong uniform. A British soldier stood up. "Why do you want to arrest them? They're not doing anything wrong." That night, things turned violent. A soldier was killed. The commanding general blamed the white officers. Racist officers were removed. The soldiers went home. But they carried something with them. The memory of a place that treated them like people. One veteran said: "These soldiers were never going back to accept being treated as less." "None of us were." A small Lancashire village showed them what was possible. Not by marching. Not by protesting. Just by being decent. They didn't think they were being brave. They were just being British.🇬🇧 This is who we are. Help us show the world. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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