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amazingly the @instagram help page has a section on removing potential spam accounts from your followers, but absolutely no help to get unflagged as a potential scam. They flag you without telling you, you can't see it anywhere unless your followers warn you, and can't appeal

The notification says "some accounts" prefer this, even when they're public. I'm pretty sure reuters doesn't want to manually review every follow request, and this started happening for every page recently. If my page is flagged as suspicious, why can't I see it in my account status and just appeal?

Weird thing: I never got notified that anything was wrong with my account, and the "account status" in my settings says everything is fine. Wtf? How can I appeal or report this?

Can someone explain why I've been unable to follow public pages on instagram lately? I get a notification that they'll have to manually review my request (for every single page I try to follow). I'm also told new followers to my page get a warning from instagram that I'm flagged as a potential scam

But regardless of whether you agree with the sanctions against Hüseyin and red., this is not about Palestine or pro-Palestine journalism, this is about Russia, and the narrative pushed by red. that they are being silenced for their pro-Palestine stance is simply false.

Russia does not support Palestine. They are not your ally. They are simply weaponizing support for Palestine to destabilize the EU.
But the only reason they're able to do that, is bc of how the EU has dealt with the crisis in Gaza and failed to uphold its own standards and live up to its rhetoric.

One of the clearest examples is operation "red hands" where Russian agents framed pro-Palestine demonstrators for the vandalism of a holocaust monument in Paris last year.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/doss...

That being said, the EU has torched any semblance of credibility it had on human rights and democracy with its support of Israel in the last 2 years.
This has left the door wide open for Russia to massively capitalize on the pro-Palestine movement to sow further division in Europe.

Russian hybrid threats: EU lists further 21 individuals and 6 entities and introduces sectoral measures in response to destabilising activities against the EU, its member states and international part... The Council imposed restrictive measures against 21 individuals and 6 entities responsible for Russia’s destabilising actions against the EU and its member states and broadened the scope of the sancti...

In the full sanctions announcement by the EU, (Hüseyin aside) all affected individuals and entities are Russian or Russia-linked. There are no independent pro-Palestine media or orgs among them.
This new round of sanctions against Russia was expected.

Hüseyin worked for Redfish and doesn't deny (or confirm) that Lizzie Phelan, the founder of Redfish still works for red. media - although he does deny ties to Russia and the label of "successor company" to redfish

That's because Hüseyin is the founder of "red." which also goes by "red media" and "redstream", and is believed to be the successor company of Russia-connected "redfish", which was closed in the first round of sanctions against Russia when they invaded Ukraine.

As we can see in the opening paragraph of the letter they received and published, the stated reason for the sanctions is alleged ties to Russia

Journalist Hüseyin Dogru claims to have been sanctioned by the EU for their pro-Palestine journalism.
That is simply not true. Let's talk about it. 🧵

Transnational Repression panel discussion: follow-up on "How Iran targets activists everywhere" YouTube video by Barely Infodumps

We're going live in 2 hours for a panel discussion on transnational repression with activist Ozi Ozar and journalist @arzugeybulla.bsky.social, following up on our award-winning documentary "How Iran targets activists everywhere" youtube.com/live/q48eYa6...

GERMAN FAR RIGHT PARTY AfD OFFIALLY DECLARED EXTREMIST ORGANIZATION!!! www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...

YouTube video by Barely Informed How Iran targets activists in Europe and elsewhere

We won a documentary award last year for this video on Iranian activist @danielasepehri.bsky.social (among many others) being targeted in Germany by Iran youtu.be/PsGzWWf-0gk

Trump is now arresting judges and deporting US citizens. This is the bad timeline. w/@roterote.bsky.social

The AfD has many confirmed extremist branches
#politics #afd #germany #höcke #aliceweidel #maxkrah

A "troll" that is only used by Nazis isn't a troll anymore, genius

can't say no to that! thanks!

"Björn Höcke is a Nazi" is not defamation according to German courts
#afd #germany #bjornhocke #bjoernhoecke #aliceweidel #politics #fyp

What are dog whistles and how does the AfD use them?
#politics #afd #germany #maximiliankrah #maxkrah #jonasduenzel #aliceweidel #bjornhocke #bjoernhoecke #fyp

How the AfD dogwhistles in their campaign ads
#politics #germany #afd #aliceweidel #bjornhocke #hocke #weidel #dogwhistle #farright #fyp

Immigration fearmongering is blown way out of proportion, and it's used to justify fascist rhetoric
#politics #migrants #migration #remigration #germany #refugees #fyp

Scratching the surface of the AfD's extremism - more to come!
#germany #politics #politicaltiktok #farright #history #aliceweidel #afd #björnhöcke #fyp

Germany's AfD party wasn't founded as a far-right party, but it was taken over by fascists
#germany #politics #politicaltiktok #farright #history #aliceweidel #afd #björnhöcke #fyp

On this Rwandan Genocide remembrance day, let's all commit to "never again" again, but for real this time

Wow thank you!

Russia not on Trump's tariff list US media quotes the White House press secretary as saying this is because of sanctions on Moscow.

Leavitt justifies this by saying: existing US sanctions on Russia "preclude any meaningful trade"
Meanwhile, the tariff list includes uninhabited islands
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I LOVE how every US conservative is like "I voted for fascism, but this trade war is where I draw the line!"