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How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and truth
A presentation to the Asia Pacific Media Network by Mandy Henk, co-founder and director of Dark Times Academy. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ When the US Embassy knocked on my door in late 2024, I was both pleased and more than a little suspicious. I’d worked with them before, but the organisation where I did…
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NZ education provider has US Embassy grant terminated after refusing to provide course material for alignment with new US government policies
AUCKLAND, 19 February 2025 – New Zealand-based community education provider Dark Times Academy has had a US Embassy grant it received to deliver a course teaching Pacific Island-based journalists about disinformation terminated after the new US administration requested a list of course participants and to review the programme material. The course, called ‘A Bit Sus’,…
