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Sophie Fullerton

@sophiefullerton.bsky.social

Lecturer on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University. Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Latest posts by sophiefullerton.bsky.social on Bluesky

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachelโ€™s Instagram

Real Question from The
NY Times
As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true?
This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachelโ€™s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if sheโ€™s funded by Hamas

10.11.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3843    ๐Ÿ” 818    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 246
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Figures like Greenwald are so contrarian/anti-establishment that even a Portland ukulele hippie group gets dragged into their bizarro pro-Kremlin talking points.

How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.

08.10.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israel at War With Itself

Gift ๐ŸŽ article ๐Ÿ”—

Israel at War With Itself

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

05.10.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Who is this Iโ€™m blocked?

05.10.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As Trump continues to implement Project 2025 never forget that the alt-left helped whitewash his image.

The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.

05.10.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Election Day in Syria.

I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic.

From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm.

(It's almost 8.00 am now.)

05.10.2025 04:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tucker Carlson Funded by Russian Propaganda Machine, Justin Trudeau Testifies Under Oath The Canadian Prime Minister claims that Russian news outlet RT financially backs โ€œYouTube personalities of the rightโ€ in an effort to destabilize democracies.

Tucker Carlson Funded by Russian Propaganda Machine, Justin Trudeau Testifies Under Oath

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

05.10.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who is Elizabeth Lane and how were her anti-Western statements disseminated on social media? On May 29, 2024, Elizabeth Lane, an American actress of Georgian origin who serves as a TV anchor atย  UNIFYD

WHO IS ELIZABETH LANE AND HOW WERE HER ANTI-WESTERN STATEMENTS DISSEMINATED ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

mythdetector.com/en/who-is-el...

05.10.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lane is an obscure pro-Putin conspiracist whose content consists of conspiracies around Kirkโ€™s death & fawning over Putin

Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putinโ€™s propaganda under the guise of โ€œindependent voicesโ€

05.10.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.

Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

04.10.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The irony of such a post is that Pool himself was (and possibly still is) being funded by the Russians to promote pro-Kremlin disinformation within the U.S. in an effort to push his MAGA base more towards pro-Putin alignments.

Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.

04.10.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Germany is often marketed as the gold standard of liberal democracy. Yet the so-called guardian of liberalism abandons those values when it comes to Palestine. This is the same country that has deported activists, shut down events & criminalized slogans tied to Palestine solidarity.

Hypocrisy!

03.10.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

30.09.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9586    ๐Ÿ” 4557    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 439    ๐Ÿ“Œ 397
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George Galloway detained under terror law at Gatwick on way back from Moscow Galloway and his wife were returning from Moscow, via Abu Dhabi, when counter terror officers swooped and detained them at the airport

Why was Galloway in Moscow?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

27.09.2025 18:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1005    ๐Ÿ” 322    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 175    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
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Top headline on X today, despite there being no concrete evidence of the shooter being a leftist, aside from far-right radicals, including Musk himself, trying to whitewash the fact that the shooter came from a pro-Trump household and openly admired white nationalists like Nick Fuentes.

14.09.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The right-wing grievance machine always needs a boogeyman. Post 9/11 it was Arabs & Muslims. By the 2010s it was Mexicans on the southern border. And now, theyโ€™ve fixated on trans people to keep their cultural war grievances front & center. The demographics may change, but their playbook doesnโ€™t

14.09.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The shooter only attended a semester of uni before enrolling in a trade school & was politically radicalized by far-right groups & forums online. Perhaps if he had stayed in university longer, he would have been able to sharpen his critical thinking skills instead of succumbing to far-right violence

14.09.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alex Jones level conspiracism from a man who owns one of the largest platforms in the world. If the far-right wants to understand how the Kirk assassination happened, all they need to do is look inward at the culture of paranoia, hatred, and radicalization theyโ€™ve spent years stoking.

14.09.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

MAGA hypocrisy at its finest. The same people who spent years mocking police brutality against African Americans, excusing the slaughter of Palestinians, and dehumanizing Muslims (with some even building entire brands and careers off such hatred ) are now pretending to take the moral high ground.

13.09.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Expose Charlie's Mvr.. โ‚ฌ
@forcharliekirk1
Follow
TRYEP
We are almost at 40,000 entries of radical Leftist identities and their employers. This doesn't even include data scraped from Bluesky and X.
This is going to be big.
2:00 PM โ€ข 9/13/25 โ€ข 179K Views

Expose Charlie's Mvr.. โ‚ฌ @forcharliekirk1 Follow TRYEP We are almost at 40,000 entries of radical Leftist identities and their employers. This doesn't even include data scraped from Bluesky and X. This is going to be big. 2:00 PM โ€ข 9/13/25 โ€ข 179K Views

Expose Charlie's Mvr...
@forcharliekirk1
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The full force of the United States Government will come down on these people.
We will not lose one more life to the Radical Left. Not one more.

Expose Charlie's Mvrderers @โ€ข 1h
We're working with Members of Congress to share our data with the US
Government. If you're a foreigner that's celebrating Charlie's death, you will be deported or you'll never step foot on A...

4:26 PM โ€ข 9/13/25 โ€ข 19K Views

Expose Charlie's Mvr... @forcharliekirk1 Follow The full force of the United States Government will come down on these people. We will not lose one more life to the Radical Left. Not one more. Expose Charlie's Mvrderers @โ€ข 1h We're working with Members of Congress to share our data with the US Government. If you're a foreigner that's celebrating Charlie's death, you will be deported or you'll never step foot on A... 4:26 PM โ€ข 9/13/25 โ€ข 19K Views

Itโ€™s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. Theyโ€™re scraping data from social media sitesโ€”including Bskyโ€”to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and theyโ€™re sharing it with the federal government.

13.09.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 952    ๐Ÿ” 469    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 87    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

12.09.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4644    ๐Ÿ” 1227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 195    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
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The first actually insightful thing Iโ€™ve read about Kirk:

12.09.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 304    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Fieldwork on the Syrian-Turkish border area, interviewing key former
FSA military personnel on Russian disinformation impact on the previous conflict.

02.09.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wonderful read, Rena

15.08.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Polisario in Syria: How Foreign Fighters Complicate Transitional Justice Iran has long supported a wide range of armed groups to destabilize nations and advance itsย interestsโ€”particularly in Syria. Militantย groups backed by Tehran include Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, the Hou...

"They supported the PKK against Turkey, the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, Haftar's forces against the government in Tripoli and the Polisario Front against Morocco."

My latest for @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social
dawnmena.org/the-polisari...

15.08.2025 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Russian state TV slips in ominous US threat: "our Alaska" State TV propagandists, including Olga Skabeyeva, have often floated the idea of seizing NATO territory during the war.

Russian State TV Slips in Ominous US Threat: 'Our Alaska'

www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...

15.08.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why is Russia so obsessed with Alaska? The scene of the planned Aug. 15 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin โ€” the U.S. state of Alaska โ€” has played an outsized role in Russian propaganda a...

Why is Russia so obsessed with Alaska?

kyivindependent.com/explainer-wh...

15.08.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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