Battle looms for African football broadcast rights
Changes to the Africa Cup of Nations cycle, and a new football tournament, look set to spark a new scramble for media rights
Changes to the Africa Cup of Nations cycle, and a new football tournament, look set to spark a new scramble for media rights
By Joshua Scheer In the hours following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, social media erupted with images and videos claiming to show Venezuelans “celebrating their liberation” by the United States. The posts went viral, amplified by high-profile accounts—including Elon Musk—but fact-checkers confirm that much of the content was entirely AI-generated, highlighting the deepening […]
Comic books have a long history of serving as political propaganda. The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers published Chug-Chug to explain the benefits of trade unionism and collective bargaining agreements. The Fellowship of Reconciliation put out Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story as a means to educate readers on the civil rights movement and nonviolent resistance. Julian Bond and T.G. Lewis’s Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book laid out reasons to oppose Uncle Sam’s imperial adventure in Southeast Asia.
The New York Times and The Washington Post reportedly sought to “avoid endangering US troops.”