View of the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza plateau on the outskirts of Cairo.
Giza saw much attention in particular to its vast amount of ancient Egyptian monuments found on the Giza Plateau, and has astonished thousands of visitors and tourists over the years.
Devin Gordon, a writer with The Atlantic, contacted her on Twitter on July 29 regarding an interview for an article about Maloney’s narrow reelection. According to Ashcraft, Gordon’s interview lacked journalistic professionalism.
“Shortly after we started speaking on the phone, I quickly learned that it was not an interview; it was an interrogation into my motives for running,” she recalled. “He seemed obsessed with his theory that I was a `stalking horse’ planted by Maloney to keep Suraj Patel from winning, and he seemed determined to prove it, however false.”
The call, which left Ashcraft “feeling cornered,” lasted about an hour. A few hours later, Gordon called again with some follow-up questions which were no less accusatory than the previous ones. The call lasted 37 minutes.
“Devin claimed to have a ton of evidence ‘on one side’ (begging the question, whose side?) and nothing but my word on the other side. He talked about ‘contradictions’ he was determined to make sense of,” said Ashcraft. “I told him to find the facts. He badgered me to admit that Brooklyn, where our campaign performed the strongest, is where Suraj needed votes to win. Proving…what? Did he think those votes belonged to Suraj? If Brooklyn was the key to unseating Maloney, did he ask Suraj if he considered this before jumping into the race six months after me?”
Perhaps the greatest red flag Gordon demonstrated in his interview was his question as to why Ashcraft chose to run against the most senior woman in the state’s congressional delegation.
“What is the implication here? That if any woman is elected, no other woman is required? Was he implying that only men can run against women?” Ashcraft asked rhetorically. “I can be a feminist, help to organize the Women’s March, and run for office against a woman. These are not mutually exclusive. My district wasn’t being represented in the way I saw fit. I sought to change that, and I will not apologize for that.”
Shortly after the interview, Ashcraft and her team contacted The Atlantic’s politics editor to confirm that Gordon was writing the story he told her he was, concerned about his unprofessional and conspiratorial tone. The editor confirmed that such a story was indeed underway and told her that their work is fact checked.
On Aug. 24, Gordon contacted Ashcraft again, but she refused to take an additional call from him. Regardless, Ashcraft has made it clear that she’s not interested in blocking the article’s publication.
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“Starting on August 9… somewhere around 9:00 am, the internet started to be shut down,” recalled Maksimas Milta, Head of Communication and Development Unit at the Belorusian European Humanities University, the university now exiled and based in Lithuania. Milta was on the ground in Minsk when the first websites were attacked: an independent platform for tracking voting, Golos, and a crowdsourcing platform which allows users to report incidences of electoral fraud, Zubr.
“Two hours later, basically YouTube access was blocked, in order for people not to be able to watch streams, then the entire internet started to be shut down,” said Milta. Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp all suffered access issues, as well as independent news sources. Belarusian telecom providers issued apologiesfor mass outages, and ultimately, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Telegram was one of the only services left.
“We enabled our anti-censorship tools in Belarus so that Telegram remained available for most users there. However, the connection is still very unstable as internet is at times shut off completely in the country,” Telegram founder Pavel Durov wroteon Twitter on August 10.
Smaller companies are increasingly filling the gaps left by the tech behemoths—not just in Belarus but on an international level, said Jillian C. York, Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “I think we’ll see a lot more movement towards smaller platforms and safer platforms for organizing but less so for getting the word out,” York said, suggesting people retained stronger links to their existing networks on Facebook. On a global scale the bigger social networks such as Facebook appear to have a bias towards “governments in general over the people.”
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