Our Right to Mock Pollies Online with Senel Wanniarachchi

Senel Wanniarachchi is a Sri Lankan based human rights activist and co-founder of Hashtag Generation. He chats to Josh about the growing politicisation of “fake news” in Sri Lanka following the government’s proposed criminalisation of false news to deal with their disinformation crisis.

Also Miles, Josh & Rafqa unpack the story of right-wing Honduran President Hernandez…his unusual network of support on Facebook…and the Facebook whistleblower who was fired for calling it out.

Stuff we dig:

Whistleblower Sophie Zhang’s story

Staff at Better Read than Dead in Newtown are organising and the book nerds of Sydney should unite

The NYT report of how a former alt-right Youtuber games the algorithm

This incredible essay by Katie J. M Baker on how Mumsnet became a TERFdom

Pranav Dixit’s essay for Buzzfeed on how being a tech reporter gives him a front row seat to India’s slide into authoritarianism

This tweet direct from the Venn diagram of aspirational posters and shitty Netflix reality viewing:

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