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Polymarket gamblers threaten Israeli journalist over missile strike story
ByAisha Down March 18, 2026

Emanuel Fabian says his routine report became focus of wager with $23m at stake on online prediction platformAn Israeli journalist received threatening messages from users of the online prediction platform Polymarket after one of his reports, on a mino…

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AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan
ByMargaret Sullivan March 13, 2026

Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverageThe videos look authentic – and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles expl…

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X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts
ByDan Milmo Global technology editor March 9, 2026

Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolificElon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platf…

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Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’
ByAlaina Demopoulos March 3, 2026

Contradicting images of parties and war flooded feeds after Iran targeted Gulf states in retaliation for US-Israeli attacksMike Babayan was in a hookah lounge when he heard the explosion on Saturday night. Dubai – a gilded playground for the ultra-rich…

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‘Middle East in flames’: what the papers say about the war on Iran
ByGuardian staff March 1, 2026

Strikes on Iran by the US and Israel, as well as Donald Trump’s announcement that the supreme leader Ali Khamenei had been killed lead the news pagesUS-Israel war on Iran: latest updatesFull report: Trump claims Khamenei is deadAt a glance: what we kno…

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My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us | Janine di Giovanni
ByJanine di Giovanni February 26, 2026

Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targetsA friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” …

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Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ
ByReuters in Washington February 25, 2026February 25, 2026

Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza warA record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work i…

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Israeli journalists fear for press freedom if UK billionaire sells TV channel stake
ByJulian Borger in Jerusalem February 13, 2026

Union urges Leonard Blavatnik to scrap Channel 13 deal, saying it is part of Netanyahu plan ‘to capture the media’Israeli journalists have appealed to a British billionaire not to proceed with the sale of a stake in an Israeli television channel, which…

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BBC Persian journalists say Iran monitoring them and targeting their families
ByMichael Savage Media editor February 7, 2026

Reporters say relatives in Iran have been questioned and persecuted in an effort to curb coverage of unrestExiled Iranian journalists working for the BBC have been warned their movements are being closely monitored by the state, as they said their fami…

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Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war
ByIan Mayes February 3, 2026

In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on the groundThe allied attack on Iraq began on 20 Mar…

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