Ross Burley

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory

Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...

Proud of the Sudan Witness team at @cen4infores.bsky.social and the work with @nytimes.com to track the commanders in Sudan responsible for some of the horrific events happening in the country. A painful but impactful documentary.

www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Israel-Gaza Conflict Map The Israel-Gaza Conflict Map is a map of incidents documented by CIR covering the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel and Lebanon since 7 October 2023.

Ever since the shocking events of October 7th last year, the team & I at CIR have been recording, investigating & verifying human rights incidents from Israel, the OPTs & Lebanon. Take a look at our map that visualises the open source data we've collected.

www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

As personal and public lives are increasingly played out on the internet and through social media, a new frontier in the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) has emerged.

Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇

Old bombs, used in a new way.

Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact.

They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them.

What are #glidebombs and how do they work? 👇(1/2)

@marcowenjones.bsky.social wee nudge to add CIR account and mine to this brill list! 🙏

Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.

If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.

Hey Marc - great if you could add me and bsky.app/profile/cen4...

Hello Bluesky!

I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇