Tom Shacklock @ShacklockTom

Research conflict & minority rights @CranePrevention & HRRC | Nonprofit consultant | ex- @genocide_watch | Byline @openDemocracy @BrusselsTimes. Views = my own. London, United Kingdom Joined February 2020

Tweets

2K
Followers

781
Following

5K
Likes

26K

Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

14 hours ago

The Rohingya are described as the "world's most persecuted minority." On the ninth anniversary of the 'genocide', we dive into the numbers behind the world's largest stateless refugee crisis.

17 120 244 49K 18

View Details

Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

2 days ago

Mothers and their children are in dire need of food and safety in Sudan’s conflict-stricken Kordofan State. People are queuing for food in an already overcrowded camp with hundreds of thousands who sought refuge in El Obeid.

5 98 118 50K 8

View Details

Dr. Felix M. Ndahinda @ndamuk

6 days ago

1. Former Presidential contender #MartinFayulu clearly states here that the Banyamulenge are not Congolese. He uses a frequently invoked false fallacy over a purported absence of colonial records documenting their presence in the #DRC pre-1884-5. A short thread🧵!

@

57 years ago

0 0 0 0 0

1 27 28 4K 6

View Details

Novara Media @novaramedia

2 days ago

Amazon has been caught buying and destroying rare books in bulk to train its AI models – after investigative journalists planted a tracking device in one of the books. The retail giant is the latest company to be exposed for the practice after 404 Media convinced a bookseller to hide an AirTag among a large batch of books that Amazon had ordered anonymously. The delivery was tracked to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas where books have their spines lopped off so the pages can be scanned – and are then thrown away. The door of the warehouse has a sign with a logo featuring a dinosaur that appears ready to devour a book. AI firms are buying up older books because they are guaranteed to be authored by humans – there is no risk they contain AI-generated content that might corrupt training models. Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of books to feed its demand for human-authored training material, the Washington Post reported earlier this year. Amazon workers are reportedly required to scan barcodes or ISBNs before scanning books, suggesting they are methodically working their way through all the world’s printed output. At one stage, staff were concerned that the warehouse might be shuttered if the flow of printed material ran dry, but the facility remains functional, Ars Technica reported. Amazon said in a statement: “Amazon purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use.”

30 473 831 26K 118

View Details

John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews

4 days ago

More than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front of the world’s eyes and called for urgent action including trade and arms sales bans to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state.

1K 4K 10K 235K 193

View Details

António Guterres @antonioguterres

a week ago

Human rights are not West or East, North or South. They are not a luxury – they are not negotiable. They are the foundation of a more peaceful and secure world.

566 655 2K 150K 92

View Details

Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc

a week ago

The main takeaway from this report is not what it reveals, since the broad contours of what is being reported were largely established already. It's the fact that another reputable international news investigation, following on @nytimes @WSJ @Reuters etc, have all established the basic facts around the UAE's massive, coordinated effort to help arm the RSF and the international community continues to simply accept and not push back against Abu Dhabi's simplistic denials. It makes fools of anyone claiming to be working to end the war in Sudan. ft.com/content/32592a…

20 123 333 87K 85

View Details

Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum

a week ago

Brilliant piece about the Colombians hired by the UAE to fight for the RSF in #Sudan. Tenacious, detailed reporting by @khoureld @FT. When will the UAE be held to account for its actions in Sudan?

Katharine Houreld @khoureld

2 weeks ago

My piece on the Colombian mercenaries - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @just1nlynch ft.com/content/32592a…

30 723 2K 407K 1K

5 89 203 27K 39

View Details

Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall

2 weeks ago

The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not this time. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves some serious questions as to whether the tenor and volume of the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are questions for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.

Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes

2 weeks ago

JASON ARDAY has been found dead. Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea on Friday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead. A spokesman for the Met said officers were called by the London Ambulance Service at 3.12 p.m. “Sadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced

135 145 543 1.1M 48

991 1K 9K 1.4M 377

View Details

Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP

2 weeks ago

Britain's role in trying to end horrifying war in Sudan under increasing scrutiny news.sky.com/video/share-13…

2 4 11 3K 0

View Details

Alan Lester @aljhlester

2 weeks ago

Very wise from @afuahirsch theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

3 14 66 10K 22

View Details

Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky

2 weeks ago

What a line-up of extraordinarily brave and talented women 💪🏼 @SangitaMyska @carolecadwalla

Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska

2 weeks ago

And I’m very proud to now work with @carolecadwalla & @thenerve_news . It’s a truly fearless, ethical, female-led digital news site. Please sign up for their free news letter (you’ll see my column too!) and consider subscribing 🙏🏽

77 1K 5K 124K 65

48 282 1K 86K 11

View Details

Financial Times @FT

2 weeks ago

Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’ ft.trib.al/VAmD8Do

281 521 1K 899K 174

View Details

Financial Times @FT

2 weeks ago

An FT visual investigation found systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, crippling systems essential to civilian life, from water and energy infrastructure to medical care. Raya Jalabi reports on the scale of the devastation. ft.trib.al/atpwoGT

134 2K 3K 702K 802

View Details

Kenneth Roth @KenRoth

2 weeks ago

The United Arab Emirates-armed Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have encircled the town of El Obeid and "are threatening a full-scale ground assault." The last time they did that, in El Fasher, they committed genocide. Who will pressure the UAE to stop? trib.al/zXRRrRy

3 45 79 11K 6

View Details

Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji

2 weeks ago

Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta crisis irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

8 166 372 5K 20

View Details

Financial Times @FT

2 weeks ago

Opinion: Donald Trump’s vow to dismantle the international court will inaugurate a new era of impunity. ft.trib.al/Ux1ALGn

20 79 213 81K 28

View Details

Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore

2 weeks ago

This is a very good conversation and well worth your time

Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani

2 weeks ago

From 3pm today on @novaramedia I speak to ex oil-engineer, turned climate collapse whistleblower, Kevin Anderson. His message? Elites aren’t serious about 1.5 degrees warming. Things will get VERY bad, very quickly. Hugely informative conversation. youtu.be/mBFos_T7cT0?is…

36 90 276 111K 74

7 25 164 41K 22

View Details

Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen

3 weeks ago

Today, the Senate received a briefing on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan. Here's the bottom line: We can & must do more to stop this. This war has already killed over 150,000 people & displaced over 14 MILLION. We must act NOW.