amy Bloor

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@Love_non_league @richscottmedia where are you covering tomorrow? I’m going to the @leektown.

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@leektown Jim’s photos are fantastic, skills 👏

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@leektown Congratulations mark & Becky.x

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@leektown 3-1 England. Bellingham

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@richscottmedia Whoever snaps him up is lucky, what a guy,

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@kevmsmith81 The film
Is fantastic.

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

The bags are 100% vegetarian & vegan friendly top quality vinyl / pleather - obvs don’t eat them though 🥴

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@Step5AndBelow Leek town, they have got a BTEC academy, lots of community involvement. We have been going for just under 20 years.

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@Step5AndBelow I’m only a fan, but one of my biggest annoyance comes from attempts to buy the way through to get to where they expect to be. I’m lucky to be a fan of a sustainable club.

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@NorthernPremLge @aaron_opoku @RCWFC Nice one Aaron! 🔵

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@leektown @callumleigh11 We have been solid in the close. So proud of all the lads.🔵

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@Hednesford_Town Congratulations, made up Ollie Harrison scored for you.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE JOURNALIST WHO BROKE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA WAS THANKED WITH A £1 MILLION LEGAL BILL

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla exposed one of the biggest political scandals in modern British history. Cambridge Analytica. Brexit dark money. Possible Russian influence in UK democracy. The kind of journalism that wins Pulitzer nominations and keeps people in power very nervous.

So what happened next?

Arron Banks the man who made the biggest single political donation in UK history at around £9 million to Brexit campaigns, sued her personally. Not The Observer, which published her work for years. Not TED, which hosted her talk. Her. Individually. A freelance journalist.

The suit was over one sentence in a 2019 TED Talk and a single tweet, in which she said Banks had lied about a secret relationship with the Russian government. Banks denied it. He had, however, admitted meeting Russian embassy officials multiple times more than he originally told a Parliamentary committee.

The Guardian, her own publisher, declined to fund her defence.

She crowdfunded her legal costs from 29,000 members of the public.

She faced potential costs of up to £1 million. She eventually won on the main issues in the High Court in 2022, but lost on appeal on one narrow point.

She was ordered to pay Banks £35,000 in damages, issue an apology, and delete certain tweets. She was also hit with a costs order of over £1 million.

The woman who exposed how democracy gets bought had to beg the public for money to stay solvent while doing it.

Seventeen press freedom organisations called the case an attempt to intimidate and silence public interest journalism. The UK government eventually introduced anti-SLAPP legislation. Partly because of what happened to her.

In the UK, you can crowdfund a journalist's survival costs after she exposes the possible corruption of a referendum.

Or you can fund the laws that protect journalists before they get financially destroyed.

We chose the first option.

Sources: The Guardian/Observer/Press Gazette and others.

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@haydcampbell Beautiful 👏

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@tomcurl05 @leektown Been a joy watching you play Tom, fabulous season 🔵

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@MANCHESTERMUS10 Still so fresh.

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@simmo_on_sport @RuncornLinnets @StalyCelticFC @leek Yeah, really made up! Enjoy your afternoon 🔵

[amy Bloor @mrsbloor]

@KurasikDominic Congratulations mate, exciting times!