The Journalist Fired by the AP for Supporting Palestine Says She 'Will Not Be Intimidated Into Silence'

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Emily Wilder has released a public statement regarding her unceremonious firing by the Associated Press.\n

on Saturday, the 22-year-old journalist and recent Stanford graduate, whom the AP fired after bowing to a smear campaign mounted by Stanford College Republicans over Wilder’s support for pro-Palestinian causes while on campus, Wilder notes that she never received a clear answer as to why she was terminated beyond vague, unsupported claims that she allegedly violated the news agency’s social media policy.

I am one victim to the asymmetrical enforcement of rules around objectivity and social media that has censored so many journalists—particularly Palestinian journalists and other journalists of color—before me. The compassion that drove my activism is part of what led me to be a reporter committed to just critical, fact-based coverage of under-told stories.

 

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