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Dave Earley
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Audience Editor @australia.theguardian.com. Previously digital editor Quest Newspapers, engagement editor Courier Mail, online news editor 7News Brisbane and more. Social media, journalism, analytics, audience engagement, etc. All the digital news things
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.” https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
In a social media post sent late on Thanksgiving, US president said he would ‘end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens’ following Washington DC shooting
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Here's last month's post with the Top 20 News Websites in Australia in September bsky.app/profile/earl...
📢 AUSTRALIA'S NEWS WEBSITE RANKINGS 📢

These were released on Thursday but I didn't get to posting, so here it is now for your Monday fix.

ABC News No1, newscomau 2nd & @australia.theguardian.com holds 5th. Thanks to the 7.8 MILLION Australians who read GdnAus in September🙏

#audience #media
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Also: SBS News jumps back into Top10 at the expense of The Age; SkyNewsOz returns after 2mths out of the Top20; TheNightly are back into Top20 for 1st time since June, and; DailyTelegraph, Conversation and AFR have fallen out of the Top20.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is the first time in its existence that @australia.theguardian.com has been ranked 5th or higher for four consecutive months (extending on from the record 3 months in September rankings).
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by Dave Earley
Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.

If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
UK prime minister Keir Starmer calls on Farage to urgently address the ‘disturbing allegations’ from school classmates of past racist behaviour, reported in the Guardian
No 10 calls on Farage to urgently address ‘disturbing allegations’ of past racist behaviour
Keir Starmer ramps up pressure on Reform leader, who has dismissed claims as ‘one person’s word against another’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Farage used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em’, you know, that sort of thing. But he also used to sing this [Gas em all] song […] He had a whole load of ‘lyrics’ on this which are pretty awful. I can remember it verbatim"
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM