{"id":25048,"date":"2026-09-22T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/these-journalists-share-vital-reporting-with-thousands-of-us-immigrants-all-by-text-and-whatsapp\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:37:22","slug":"these-journalists-share-vital-reporting-with-thousands-of-us-immigrants-all-by-text-and-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/these-journalists-share-vital-reporting-with-thousands-of-us-immigrants-all-by-text-and-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"These journalists share vital reporting with thousands of US immigrants \u2013 all by text and WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Independent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformation<\/p>\n

When Allan Marrero, an asylum-seeker from the Cayman Islands<\/a>, was released after five months in immigration detention, there was only one journalist he invited to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented.<\/p>\n

Grench had previously reported on Marrero<\/a>, who was detained after interviewing with federal officials for a marriage-based green card. But beyond covering his detention struggles, she humanized him, emphasizing his and his husband\u2019s love story.<\/p>\n

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\nIndependent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformation
\nWhen Allan Marrero, an asylum-seeker from the Cayman Islands, was released after five months in immigration detention, there was only one journalist he invited to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented.
\nGrench had previously reported on Marrero, who was detained after interviewing with federal officials for a marriage-based green card. But beyond covering his detention struggles, she humanized him, emphasizing his and his husband\u2019s love story. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformation When Allan Marrero, an asylum-seeker from the Cayman Islands, was released after five months in immigration detention, there was only one journalist he invited to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented. Grench had …<\/p>\n

These journalists share vital reporting with thousands of US immigrants \u2013 all by text and WhatsApp<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}