Anne Applebaum
speaker
2,775 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
Anne Applebaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 7.
Appearances
You can take one incident and you can tell a story about a whole country that isn't necessarily true.
I mean, just as you said, if the perpetrator is not, in fact, an immigrant.
Right.
or not an illegal immigrant or not a migrant at all.
And yet he's being used to whip up hatred of migrants.
You know, that's an illustration of how you can take a fact and twist it and distort it and make it into make a story that isn't necessarily political.
I understand that story.
It was a it was a police screw up and there was a there was a deliberate misinformation.
Right, which is not the first time that kind of thing has ever happened.
I mean, there are all kinds of domestic violence stories where, you know, men accuse women of doing various things.
And anyway, it's not completely unique.
But, you know, once you go down to the story, it doesn't have anything to do with the police being anti-white, which is the language that Elon Musk and his pals on X are using.
Right.
I mean, it's a horrible story.
It's a terrible story.
It's a police mistake and disaster, and it's a tragedy, but it isn't a political story in the way that it's being made to be.
And so that you can pluck these stories out of real life, turn them into something else on the internet, and then use the anger that they generate to create riots and people burning down houses somewhere else is pretty scary.
And what you're watching is...
the state and the police, the authorities in Belfast and elsewhere being really unable to deal with this.
I mean, they, you know, when there's a wave of information, you know, anger and emotion, they can't pinpoint on anything.
Showing 561–580 of 2,775 · page 29 of 139
← Previous
Next →