Author: Hanna Liubakova
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Hanna is an investigative journalist and researcher from Belarus. For the past six years she has written for various Belarusian and international media outlets. Her prior experience includes radio, digital and television production, including work for Radio Free Europe as a recipient of Vaclav Havel Fellowship. She also worked as a Belsat TV presenter and correspondent from Prague, London, Warsaw and Brussels, among others.
Website: https://medium.com/@hanna.liubakova
Twitter: @HannaLiubakova
Censored stories on #COVID19: https://t.co/rP8ZF4mY4N Important to remember what power the information has and how those in power could be scared of it
Catholics in #Minsk were celebrating Palm Sunday yesterday. No words. #COVID19
2#COVID19 is spreading fast in #Belarus. Today there were 562 cases and 8 deaths confirmed by the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 440 cases, the day before yesterday - 351. This is official data. Apparently, there are many patients with pneumonia who were not tested
Posts by Hanna Liubakova:
The much-trumpeted conspirationalism
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
America’s thank you to the immigrant
Donald Trump has consistently made opposition to immigration the center of his politics and Twitter feed. On Broadway, immigration is a topic to sing about. On the evening of September 12, I happened to be in a theater in New York City, watching “Hamilton,” the...
