Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who spent some of his happiest years chronicling life in Caracas, once declared journalism “the best job in the world”. Not so if you are reporting on today’s Venezuela, where journalists are feeling the heat as the South American country lurches towards full-blown dictatorship under President Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading...

X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention camps Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands. Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted. Continue reading...

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Our sample of political content shows how campaigns and individuals have been using the video-sharing platform * UK general election live: latest updates * Live tracker: UK general election results 2024 If a week is a long time in politics, the five-year gap between UK elections is an eternity. The political landscape has changed dramatically since the Tories’ landslide victory in 2019 – but so too has the social media landscape. In 2019 TikTok was, according to a Guardian explainer, “a video-sharing app which has become phenomenally popular with teenagers”. Continue reading...