Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social

RE: cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog

During my time at OCCRP three journalists that worked with the organization got brutally murdered: Pavel Sheremet, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Ján Kuciak (along with his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová).

Elon Musk, a man with a gigantic platform and unlimited resources, is now publicly calling for a journalist to be murdered, because she was doing her job.

Like Pavel, like Daphne, like Ján (and Martina).

Mark this moment. Don't anyone tell you later they are surprised.

Kevin Beaumont@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Elon Musk, an immigrant, was interviewed recently by the editor of the Economist. He said a bunch of dumb shit - for example that money wouldn’t exist in 2036, and that everybody wouldn’t have to work any more as AI would do their job for them.

Anyway, he’s now essentially calling for the assassination of the journalist over her questions about immigration.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social

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Daphne Caruana Galizia:
occrp.org/en/project/the-daphn

OCCRPThe Daphne ProjectIn October 2017, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally killed by a car bomb just meters from her home. The investigation into her killing is ongoing, but there is little doubt that she was murdered because of her work. With a brazen, unapologetic and uncompromising style, she denounced corruption, nepotism, clientelism, and all kinds of criminal behaviors in her tiny EU member state.A group of 45 journalists representing 18 news organizations from 15 countries picked up Daphne’s work after it was abruptly halted by her gruesome death on the doorstep of Europe. They spent months poring over her findings, gathering documents, and talking to sources, to try to get to the bottom of the many leads the formidable woman left behind. They managed to uncover startling new information about corruption that ultimately brought down the Maltese government — and they're still digging.The Daphne Project was coordinated and led by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based organization establis
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social

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Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová:
occrp.org/en/project/a-murdere

OCCRPA Murdered Journalist's Last InvestigationIn late February 2018, Jan Kuciak, a young Slovak investigative journalist, was shot dead. His fiancée was killed alongside him.Before his death, Kuciak had been working with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and his outlet, Aktuality.sk, on an in-depth investigation about the Italian ‘Ndrangheta, one of the world’s most powerful and fearsome criminal groups, and their infiltration into his country.His reporting — now forever unfinished — was carried out in collaboration with two OCCRP partners: the Czech Center for Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) and the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI).Jan’s final stories, published to honor his memory, set the record straight, and minimize the danger to his colleagues, appear below.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social

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I remember vividly working till 3am to get Ján Kuciak's final investigation published just days after he and Martina got shot to death in their own home.

I have never met them, personally. But I am friends with people who worked with Ján, who knew both of them.

That night (and days before it, and years after it) OCCRP's journalists, editors, tech staff was mourning, but was also furiously working to ensure that Ján's stories do not get silenced by his murder.

And it did not.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@rysiek@mstdn.social

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Every time a journalist gets murdered for doing their job, there is performative surprise. Performative hand-wringing. Performative calls to action.

"How could it have happened?!"

Well, this is how this happens.

One of the most powerful, and most petty, of men in this world broadcasts to his hundreds of millions of followers, many of them armed, many of them radicalized by the platform he owns, that a specific journalist needs to be murdered for her work.

Mark this moment.