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The algorithms that Big Tech designed - and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design, and deepens the global digital divide.

Contributors:
Sophia Goodfriend – Researcher, Duke University
Mona Shtaya – Digital rights scholar
Matthew Mahmoudi – Researcher, Amnesty Tech
Sebastian Ben Daniel – Journalist, +972 Magazine

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Nicaragua put Germany in the dock at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of facilitating genocide in Gaza. Germany is the second largest weapons supplier to Israel.

Meenakshi Ravi dissects the reaction from Berlin and the German media to the case.

Truth to power in wartime Ukraine

Three years into Ukraine’s war with Russia, journalists are feeling the pressure. Where once investigative outlet Bihus.info was relied on to expose Russian war crimes, they’re now undergoing Soviet-style surveillance by security services for exposing corruption in Ukraine.

Featuring:
Yaroslav Yurchyshyn – Ukrainian Member of Parliament and chair, Freedom of Speech Committee
Natalia Ligachova – Editor-in-Chief, Detector Media
Maria Zemlyanska – Investigative journalist, Bihus.Info
Denys Bihus – Founder, Bihus.Info

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It is election season in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems set to win a third successive term in the national elections — for good reason, say his supporters. They claim 10 years of the Modi government have transformed India, from lifting millions out of poverty to elevating India’s global status, but his critics say Modi’s record is far from perfect.

In this episode of The India Report, we analyse how India has fared in the past decade on the foreign policy and economic policy fronts.

Featuring:
Jayati Ghosh - Professor of economics, University of Massachusetts
Anand Gurumurthy - BJP spokesperson  and economist
Suhasini Haider - Diplomatic affairs editor, The Hindu
Raghuram Rajan - Former governor, Reserve Bank of India
Veena Sikri - Former external affairs diplomat for India

With international reporters locked out, Palestinian journalists have made huge sacrifices to keep the world informed of the unprecedented killing and destruction in Gaza.

More media workers have been killed by Israel since October 7 than in any other conflict in modern history.

Like the rest of the population, Gaza's journalists have also been maimed, arrested or threatened, have seen their homes and offices destroyed and are grieving over the loss of those close to them.

The Listening Post spent time with three Al Jazeera journalists between February and March 2024.

Contributors:

Anas al-Sharif – Reporter, Al Jazeera Arabic
Hind Khoudary – Reporter, Al Jazeera English
Marah Elwadiya – Journalist, Al Jazeera Digital

A Listening Post/Ain Media co-production.

Tariq Nafi – Senior Producer
Shrouq Aila – Gaza-based Producer
Ahmed Madi – Producer
Kit Harwood – Editor
Meenakshi Ravi – Executive Producer

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Six months into Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, the United Nations Security Council has finally passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire. The United States’s abstention marks a pivotal moment in Israel’s increasing international isolation.

In the Israeli media, the opposition to the UN vote is near-unanimous and unsurprising. More striking is the lack of interest from American news outlets. The implications this story raises are perhaps a little uncomfortable for them - they hit too close to home.

Contributors:
Ramzy Baroud - Editor, The Palestine Chronicle
Ardi Imseis  - Former UNRWA official
Daniel Levy - President, US-Middle East Project
Sarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director, DAWN

On our radar:

A New York Times piece has revealed more information about the mass surveillance Israel has deployed on Palestinians in Gaza. Producer Tariq Nafi reports on how facial recognition is being used to collect and catalogue the faces of Palestinians, “without their knowledge or consent".

Modi’s messaging machine

In a few weeks, India will launch a six-week-long process of voting for the next national government - and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win an historic third term in office. Producer Meenakshi Ravi explores the all-encompassing information ecosystem that is likely to help put Modi back in the prime minister’s office.

Featuring :
Neerja Chowdhury - Contributing editor, Indian Express
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay - Author, Narenda Modi: The man, the times
Saba Naqvi - Author, The Saffron Storm

With India amid a national election campaign, its news media is in sharp focus. Until recently it was believed that the sheer diversity of outlets ensured a range of perspectives, but now, India’s mainstream media has largely been co-opted by the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Just how did the media in India get to this point and what does it mean for the upcoming elections?

Featuring:

Ravish Kumar - Former Host, NDTV
Shashi Shekhar Vempati - Former CEO, Prasar Bharati
Pramod Raman - Chief Editor, MediaOne
Amy Kazmin - Former South Asia Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Meena Kotwal - Founder, The Mooknayak

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The threat to ban TikTok in the United States has prompted an online backlash. Critics question the premise that Chinese ownership poses a security risk and suggest the real reason may be the surge in pro-Palestinian content since October 7.

Contributors:

Julia Angwin - Tech Policy Writer, New York Times; Founder, Proof News
Russel Brandom - Tech Editor, Rest Of The World
Marwa Fatafta - MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access Now
Evan Greer – Director, Fight for the Future

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In yet another deadly raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, Israel abducted Palestinian journalists covering the story – including one of Al Jazeera’s own. Producer Nicholas Muirhead reports.

Why Russia has looted Ukraine’s art

Following Vladimir Putin’s expected re-election this week, we’re revisiting a story about the Russian military’s targeting of Ukraine’s heritage. Producer Tariq Nafi explores how Russia’s war on Ukrainian culture is designed to rewrite history and weaken the country’s resistance.

Featuring:

Milena Chorna - Head of International Exhibitions, War Museum in Ukraine
Alina Dotsenko - Director, Kherson Regional Art Museum
Ihor Poshyvailo - General Director, Maidan Museum

Elections are weeks away in India and opposition parties are attempting to take on the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking a third consecutive term.

The opposition claims that Modi’s success rate has very little to do with his governance – but more because scores of his political rivals have been arrested or charged on questionable grounds. They say it has kneecapped the opposition and gamed the political arena in favour of the governing party.

In this episode of The India Report, Sreenivasan Jain examines whether these actions are – as the Prime Minister claims – part of his crusade against high-level corruption, or an unprecedented campaign against of the opposition which is deeply dangerous to India’s democracy.

Featuring:

Derek O’Brien - Member of Indian Parliament

Adish Aggarwala - President, Supreme Court Bar Association

Anjali Bhardwaj - Founder, Satark Nagrik Sangathan

Priyanka Kakkar - Chief Spokesperson, AAP

Maya Tudor - Professor, Blavatnik School of Government

With the global media’s attention trained on Gaza since October 7, things have worsened for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and near impossible for journalists to cover.

With their movement severely restricted, dozens of Palestinian journalists have been arrested, often held without trial or charge.

Contributors:
Anan Quzmar - Journalist

Assal Rad - Middle East Scholar and Author

Mariam Barghouti - Writer and Journalist

Oren Ziv - Journalist, +972 Magazine

On our radar:

Ahead of an upcoming election in India, there has been a slew of movie releases built around key Modi government talking points. Producer Tariq Nafi discusses Bollywood’s role in electioneering.

George Soros - Financier, philanthropist Or bogeyman?

Hungarian-American billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has been at the centre of countless conspiracy theories. Flo Phillips sifts through fact and fiction to understand how the crusade against Soros became one of the most destructive smear campaigns of the 21st century and a blueprint for others.

Featuring:

Emily Tamkin - Author, The Influence Of Soros

Hannes Grassegger - Reporter and Founder, Polaris News

Marius Dragomir - Director, Center For Media, Data and Society (CMDS)

Credits: George Soros images courtesy of the Open Society Foundations

The politics of Hindu nationalism have played a central role in the dramatic rise of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the elections have neared, the Modi regime has turbocharged its Hindu-first agenda - best exemplified in the inauguration of the Ram Temple in the city of Ayodhya.

Veteran journalist Sreenivasan Jain explains how the opening of this temple - and the whitewashing of its controversial past - illustrates how Modi and his party have made their brand of Hindu supremacism not only acceptable, but a key part of Narendra Modi’s appeal to Indians.

Featuring:

Asaduddin Owaisi - Member of the Indian Parliament

Uma Bharti - Former Vice-President, Bharatiya Janata Party

Hartosh Singh Bal - Political Editor, The Caravan

The United States' airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration - dropping food while continuing to send Israel bombs with which to pulverise Gaza. And the gulf between what’s happening on the ground and the mainstream media’s reportage continues to widen.

Contributors:

Laura Albast - Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies

Mohamad Bazzi - Professor, New York University

Antony Loewenstein - Author, The Palestine Laboratory

Mouin Rabbani - Co-editor, Jadaliyya

On our radar:

Since Israel launched its assault on Gaza, the war has been a delicate subject for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The war has led to censorship of news coverage and suppression of public protest. Meenakshi Ravi reports.

Israel's cultural annihilation in Gaza

The Listening Post has covered Israel’s war on Gaza through the prism of the media, including the unprecedented killing of Palestinian journalists. But there’s another level to what’s unfolding in Gaza: the genocidal assault on Palestinian history, existence and culture.

Featuring:

Jehad Abusalim - Executive Director, The Jerusalem Fund

In December 2023, The New York Times published an explosive article - now widely discredited - that detailed Hamas’s agenda to weaponise rape and sexual violence on October 7. We reveal the controversies surrounding the article along with the broader issue of Western media outlets’ pro-Israeli/anti-Palestinian bias.

Lead contributors:
Ali Abunimah - Director, Electronic Intifada
Chris Hedges - Former Middle East Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

On our radar:

After they won an award at the Berlinale film festival, the reaction to a speech by filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra has become the latest example of Germany’s toxic debate on Gaza.  Meenakshi Ravi reports.

Genocide in Gaza through the eyes of Israeli soldiers

For months, Israeli soldiers in Gaza have been documenting their own war crimes against Palestinians and sharing them on social media.

The Listening Post collected and reviewed hundreds of items. We asked three experts on human rights and torture to examine the material.

Featuring:
Basil Farraj - Assistant Professor, Birzeit University
Lisa Hajjar - Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Sarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)

Producers: Tariq Nafi and Elettra Scrivo

With thanks to: Younis Tiwari and Tali Shapiro


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With Alexey Navalny’s death and Julian Assange’s extradition appeal happening within a week of each other, we look at the selective treatment of the two dissenters in the Western media.

Lead contributors:

Chip Gibbons - Policy Director, Defending Rights & Dissent

Matt Kennard - Chief Investigator, Declassified UK

Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin

Rebecca Vincent - Director of Campaigns, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

On our radar:

Usually silent in the face of the suffering in Gaza, Israeli TV channels broadcast segments on the abuse of Palestinian captives - with a positive spin. Tariq Nafi reports.

Namibia’s (mis)remembered genocide

Germany’s genocide in Namibia early in the 20th century has long been a misremembered episode in colonial history. Despite efforts to correct that record, many are yet to hear the testimonies of the victimised communities: the Herero and Nama peoples.

Featuring:

Christina Haritos - Communications Scholar

Suzie Ndaundika Shefeni - Researcher and Journalist

Jephta Nguherimo - Herero Activist and Poet

More than a million Palestinians have been crammed into the city of Rafah -  which is being bombed by Israel with the imminent threat of a ground invasion. Western media, however, has once again failed to communicate the severity of this moment.

Contributors:
Laura Albast - Media Analyst, Institute for Palestine Studies-USA
Nabih Bulos - Middle East Bureau Chief, LA Times
Adel Iskandar - Professor of Global Communication, Simon Fraser University
Jacob Magid - US Bureau Chief, The Times of Israel

On our radar:

Haaretz newspaper published an article about Israeli soldiers cooking food in Palestinian homes– the same homes these soldiers chased them out of, all while Palestinians themselves are being starved by Israel. Nic Muirhead on the mocking of Palestinian suffering.


The Kremlin’s youth militarisation push

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has invested considerably in managing domestic perceptions of the war - including among younger citizens.

With the war dragging on, the government’s youth propaganda has escalated. Educational institutions have become part of an orchestrated effort to shape loyal militarised nationalists and passive media consumers.

Contributors:
Alexander Borodikhin - Editor, Mediazona
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - Anchor, TV Rain
Ian Garner - Professor, Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy

This past week’s elections in Pakistan were meant to be a formality, the outcome - a win for the PMLN - predetermined by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus.

But despite their attempt to manage the narrative and meddle with politics, former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party, the PTI, had an unexpected pull with the people.

Contributors:

Amber Shamsi - Director, Centre for Excellence in Journalism
Asma Shirazi - Anchor, HUM News
Fahd Husain - President, AIK News
Moeed Pirzada - Journalist and YouTuber

On our radar:

Two weeks after the International Court of Justice concluded Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza, Israeli soldiers continue to film and upload evidence of their own war crimes. Tariq Nafi examines the material being posted online.

John Kirby: US messenger on the Gaza War

For Israel’s primary backer in its war on Gaza, the United States, getting the messaging right has not been easy. The face of the White House’s policy is US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.

Despite some uncomfortable exchanges with reporters, Kirby has maintained an aggressive approach in his delivery. Whether audiences are buying it is another matter.

Meenakshi Ravi explores the figure of the spokesperson and the challenges of being President Biden’s messenger on Gaza.

Featuring:
John Nichols - National affairs correspondent, The Nation
Kristian Denny - Associate professor, Columbia University
Prem Thakker - Politics reporter, The Intercept

Israeli intelligence accuses a UN refugee agency of collusion with Hamas – and the media take it at face value.
Israel has for years been claiming that the United Nations refugee agency (UNRWA) is in cahoots with Hamas. The latest allegations – which coincided with the International Court of Justice’s order for Israel to prevent genocide – bear the hallmarks of a distraction tactic. So far, the media have taken the bait.

Contributors:
Diana Buttu – Palestinian lawyer
Tal Mimran – Former Israeli government adviser
Abdaljawad Omar – Academic, Birzeit University
Kenneth Roth – Former executive director, Human Rights Watch

On our radar
Last month, a New York Times investigation carried Israeli allegations of sexual violence by Hamas during its October 7 attacks. Meenakshi Ravi explains why that story is being called into question.

Germany’s ‘Palestine exception’ to free speech
Historical guilt and the stifling of pro-Palestinian dissent in Germany.

Contributors:
Hebh Jamal – Palestinian journalist
Hanno Hauenstein – Journalist and former editor, Berliner Zeitung
Wieland Hoban – Chair, Jewish Voice for Peace

Part 1: What does the ICJ ruling mean for Israel?

Judgement day at the International Court of Justice. The court has ruled the people of Gaza must be protected from genocidal acts carried out by Israel.

Richard Gizbert is joined by producer Tariq Nafi to discuss the impact this ruling could have on how the media discuss the war in Gaza.

Part 2: Mohammed el-Kurd on Palestinian resistance

Writer and journalist Mohammed el-Kurd in a video essay on Palestinian resistance and the Western media’s warped coverage of Palestine.

Contributor:
Mohammed el-Kurd - Writer and journalist

Part 3: India: Temple opening or election campaign kickoff?

A long-anticipated – and deeply contentious - consecration of a Hindu temple in India this past week featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi front and centre.

The country's mainstream media enthusiastically played along, giving Modi valuable airtime in what is an election year.

Contributors:
Apoorvanand - Professor, Delhi University
Seema Chishti - Editor, The Wire
Pamela Philipose - Author, Media's Shifting Terrain
Sreemoy Talukdar - Deputy executive editor, Firstpost

The ICJ hearings have drawn scorn as well as shock from Israel’s media punditry. In the West, however, the case has emboldened journalists to ask tougher questions of the Israeli narrative.

Lead contributors:
Oren Ziv - Reporter, +972 Magazine
Mouin Rabbani - Co-editor, Jadaliyya
Selma Carmey - Human rights lawyer
Gideon Levy - Columnist, Haaretz
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project; Former Israeli political adviser

On our radar:

Australia’s public broadcaster- ABC - fired a radio host after she shared a report on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis to her social media. Meenakshi Ravi reports on a leak showing a pro-Israel pressure group may have been involved.

Feature: Top marks for Finland

Finland’s educational drive around media literacy offers a model for educators, broadcasters and countries around the world.

Feature contributors:
Leo Pekkala - Deputy director, National Audiovisual Institute
Mari Vesanummi - Media education producer, YLE
Valtteri Kela - Finnish language teacher, Helsinki French Finnish School
Valentina Uitto - History teacher, Helsinki French Finnish School

With the International Court of Justice deliberating over South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we look at how the proceedings could affect reporting on the war.

Contributors:
Qaanitah Hunter - Journalist, News24
Nimer Sultany - Editor-in-Chief, The Palestine Yearbook of International Law
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project
Tony Leon - Political commentator

On our radar:

In Ecuador, masked gang members break into the studio of the state broadcaster, firing at staff and taking hostages. Tariq Nafi explains the country’s gang violence crisis and why the media has become a target.

Feature - Sudan: 2023’s Forgotten War

Thousands killed, millions displaced - the crisis in Sudan continues unabated and underreported. Two Sudanese journalists reflect on the coverage of Sudan’s civil war.

Contributors:
Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Editor, Eyes on Sudan
Isma’il Kushkush - Sudanese-American journalist

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After three months of destruction, displacement and the killing of Palestinians, we take a deep dive into the way the Gaza story has been covered.

Since the attacks on October 7, The Listening Post has interviewed a range of experts on the news coverage – what’s missing in it, and how it has helped enable the crimes being waged on Palestinians in Gaza.

In this special edition, we’ve compiled three interviews – with one journalist, one expert on human rights and another on digital rights. They talk us through the way the media – through their news coverage – have helped pave the way to a genocide.

Contributors:
Francesca Albanese – United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Marwa Fatafta – MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access Now
Mariam Barghouti – Writer and journalist

In 17 years of The Listening Post, we have never seen a story anything like Israel’s war on Gaza.

It has been a turning point for the world order as we know it and its media ecosystem – which is why, since October 7, we have covered nothing else.

In this special edition, we compiled our reporting on the Gaza war over the past 12 weeks. The extent of the brutality, a genocide unfolding in plain sight; the sheer volume of disinformation, designed to defend the indefensible; and the complicity of so many Western news outlets – repeatedly exposed for failing to question Israeli propaganda, then spreading it.

Contributors:
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown University
Azad Essa - Author, Hostile Homelands
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project
Orly Noy - Journalist, Human Rights Advocate
Omar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, London School of Economics
Rami Younis - Journalist; Former host On the Other Hand, Makan 33
Ramzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Chronicle
Sarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director, DAWN
Swasti Rao - Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
Yara Eid - Palestinian Journalist in Gaza
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

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According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory - documenting their own genocide.

Contributors:
Amahl Bishara - Professor of anthropology, Tufts University
Arwa Damon - Former senior international correspondent, CNN
Sari Bashi - Program director, Human Rights Watch
Wael Dahdouh - Gaza bureau chief, Al Jazeera Arabic

On our radar:
The settler movement - which has placed 700,000 Israelis on the West Bank in complete contravention of international law - now has its eyes on Gaza. Producer Flo Phillips on Israeli developers' plans in post-war Gaza.

The war in Gaza & the end times - the Christian Zionist view:
Evangelicals in the United States - many of whom call themselves Christian Zionists - are some of the biggest supporters of Israel in the US, and they broadcast their support on TV and radio networks that have huge audiences.

Contributors:
Chrissy Stroop - Senior correspondent, Religion Dispatches
Melani McAlister - Author, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
Sarah Posner - Journalist and author, Unholy

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Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether it will make any difference.

Contributors:
Ariella Aisha Azoulay - Professor of Modern Culture & Media, Brown University
Omar Al-Ghazzi - Associate Professor of Media & Communications, LSE
Ramzy Baroud - Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Chronicle
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

On our radar:
Eighty-nine journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Producer Tariq Nafi on the targeting of journalists, and their families, in Gaza.

Silenced and surveilled: Palestinian citizens of Israel:
Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel have been arrested for social media posts criticising Israel’s assault on Gaza. Rami Younis talks about the clampdown on Israel’s Palestinian citizens.

Contributor:
Rami Younis - Journalist, Former host of ‘On the Other Hand’, Makan 33

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More than 60 days into the Israel-Gaza war, two Israeli news outlets - +972 magazine and Local Call - published a report on The Gospel, a new artificial intelligence system deployed in Gaza.

The AI helps generate new targets at an unprecedented rate, allowing the Israeli military to loosen its already permissive constraints on the killing of civilians.

Contributors:
Marwa Fatafta - MENA Policy and Advocacy Director, Access Now
Omar Shakir - Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch
Sophia Goodfriend - Journalist
Tal Mimran - Former legal adviser, Israeli Ministry of Justice and Israeli military

On our radar:
The exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas late last month created some challenges for the Netanyahu government - and its messaging. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at how Israeli media has been reporting on the story.

Mariam Barghouti: “The media is complicit in the Gaza war”:
As the world is focused on the events unfolding in Gaza, Israel has also escalated its attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where Hamas has no authority or military presence. Journalist Mariam Barghouti joins us to discuss the intensification of surveillance technologies, the clamp down on speech and the rise of violence in the West Bank.

Contributor:
Mariam Barghouti - Palestinian Writer and Journalist

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If the United States has aided and abetted Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the European Union’s role has been one of quiet complicity.

In a special edition of The Listening Post, we examine the discourse around the conflict in three EU countries: Germany, where shows of support for the Palestinians have been heavily suppressed; France, where television news channels have distorted the debate to suit their own agendas; and the outlier that is Ireland, where there has been probing criticism of Israel’s actions - from politicians and in the media.

Segment 1: Germany
Contributors:
Hanno Hauenstein - Journalist and former editor Berliner Zeitung
Wieland Hoban - Chair, Jewish Voice for Peace
Hebh Jamal - Palestinian journalist

Segment 2: France
Contributors:
Rima Hassan - International Lawyer and President, Refugee Camps Observatory
Thomas Legrand - Radio Host, France Inter
Daniel Schneidermann - Founder & Columnist, Arrêt Sur Images and Columnist, Libération

Segment 3: Ireland
Contributors:
Brendan Ciarán Browne - Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Una Mullally - Columnist, The Irish Times
Shona Murray - Europe Correspondent, Euronews

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Forty-eight days of bloodshed later, a truce lasting 96 hours - between Israel and Hamas - has come into effect, giving Palestinians in Gaza some temporary room to breathe. But in the information war, there is no ceasefire in sight.

Contributors:
Abboud Omar Hamayel – Academic, Birzeit University
Hussein Ibish – Arab Gulf States Institute
Mia Bloom – Professor, Georgia State University
Shashank Joshi – Defence Editor, Economist

On our radar:
This past week has been one of the most devastating for journalists in Gaza. This, in a war that has already been described as the “deadliest period on record” for the media. Meenakshi Ravi has the details.

Francesca Albanese: Western media living in ‘alternative reality’:
In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. She joins us for an interview on terminology, context and the blindspots of mainstream media.

Contributor:
Francesca Albanese - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

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The evidence provided by Israeli forces to justify their attacks on Gaza's hospitals has come up short - and so has the news coverage.

Contributors:
Alice Rothchild - Health Advisory Council, Jewish Voice for Peace
Diana Buttu - Palestinian Lawyer
Meron Rapoport - Editor, Local Call
Yumna Patel - Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss

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Israeli politicians are calling for the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza. Producer Tariq Nafi reports on how they’re using the media to transmit the message loud and clear.

The Israeli anti-war Left: Where to next, after October 7?:
A special interview with journalist and human rights activist Orly Noy on the pain and loneliness of the Israeli anti-war Left, post-October 7th.

Contributor:
Orly Noy - Chair, B’Tselem

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Freedom of expression is under the gun in the Land of the Free. We look at what media in the United States is missing in Israel’s war on Gaza - and why it matters.

Contributors:
Noura Erakat - Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Abdallah Fayyad - Journalist; Former Member, Boston Globe Editorial Board
Alex Kane - Senior Reporter, Jewish Currents
Jack Mirkinson - Acting Senior Editor, The Nation

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The vast majority of mainstream outlets in the US are corporate-owned. Nic Muirhead reports on how publicly-funded broadcasters in the Anglosphere are taking heat over their coverage of the Gaza story.

‘India Stands With Israel’:
Indo-Israeli relations have been on the upswing for the past few years. And in this war, Indians have been showing their support through posts online, and rants on TV with some disinformation thrown in, to skew how this conflict is understood. Meenakshi Ravi reports.

Contributors:
Azad Essa - Author, Hostile Homelands; Journalist, Middle East Eye
Pooja Chaudhuri - Researcher and Trainer, Bellingcat
Swasti Rao - Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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After three weeks of a punishing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists in.

News outlets and audiences are entirely reliant on local Palestinian reporters, who risk their lives to provide a window into the war.

Contributors:
Tal Schneider - political and diplomatic correspondent, Times of Israel
Nathan Thrall - author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
Joshua Leifer - journalist, Dissent Magazine
Omar Baddar - deputy director, Arab American Institute

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The ethnic cleansing of the occupied West Bank intensifies. Meenakshi Ravi reports on how Israelis are documenting and sharing the evidence online.

Israel's automated occupation: Hebron

Tariq Nafi examines Israel’s use of AI-powered surveillance in Hebron, which has entrenched the Israeli government’s control over Palestinians.

Contributers:
Izzat Karaki - activist and volunteer, Youth Against Settlements
Sophia Goodfriend - researcher, Duke University
Matt Mahmoudi - researcher and adviser, Amnesty International

After three weeks of punishing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists in. News outlets and audiences are entirely reliant on local Palestinian reporters, who risk their lives to provide a window into the war.

Contributors:
Mouin Rabbani - Co-editor, Jadaliyya
Omar Shakir - Human Rights Watch, Israel and Palestine director
Yara Eid - Gazan journalist

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The online space has been a significant arena of battle throughout this war. Flo Phillips reports on the power that social media companies wield when it comes to what can and cannot be seen from Gaza.

Ghassan Kanafani and the era of Palestinian revolutionary media:
Silencing Palestinian voices is not new for Israel. We take you 50 years back for a historical case in point - Ghassan Kanafani. Reporter Tariq Nafi explores Kanafani’s work as a journalist and the era of Palestinian revolutionary media.

Contributors:
As’ad Abukhalil - Professor of political science, California State University
Elias Khoury - Novelist and literary critic
Refqa Abu-Remaileh - Professor of modern Arabic literature and film, Free University Berlin

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Two weeks into Israel’s war on Gaza, what the world is witnessing - from Israeli leaders' racist and genocidal rhetoric to the mass killing of Palestinian civilians - bears the hallmarks of a historic crime. This episode looks at how the media are responding - in Israel and beyond.

Contributors:
Neve Gordon - professor of international law and human rights, Queen Mary University
Tariq Kenney-Shawa - US policy fellow, Al-Shabaka
Antony Loewenstein - Author of books such as The Palestine Laboratory
Yousef Munayyer - senior fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC
Sherine Tadros - deputy director of advocacy & UN representative, Amnesty International

From disinformation to 'shadow banning': Marwa Fatafta on the digital front line

With journalists locked out of the Gaza Strip, social platforms have become a vital means of finding and sharing information as well as another front in the propaganda war. Marwa Fatafta, a Palestinian digital rights analyst, talks us through the online dimension of this conflict - including disinformation, hate speech and the censorship of Palestinian voices.

Contributor:
Marwa Fatafta - MENA policy manager, Access Now

What we are seeing in the occupied Gaza Strip and Israel has no precedent - the
barbarism, the talk of vengeance, the war crimes. And the signs, all too familiar ones, of journalists succumbing to the pressures under the powers that be.

In this special episode, we delve into the news coverage of the war in Palestine and Israel. We examine the narratives that have emerged since Hamas’s surprise attack - a seismic news event that is destined to take ownership of the date on which it happened - October 7, 2023.

Contributors:
Mariam Barghouti - Writer and Journalist
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project
Mouin Rabbani - Co-editor, Jadaliyya
Meron Rapoport - Editor, Local Call
Sarah Leah Whitson - Executive Director, DAWN

With a week to go until elections in Poland, the ruling Law and Justice Party has used its control of the public broadcaster to drown out opposition voices and push its anti-European Union, anti-migrant messaging.

Contributors:
Jan Cienski - Senior Policy Editor, Politico Europe
Paulina Lenik - Assistant Professor, Kozminski University
Anita Prazmowska - Professor in International History, LSE
Wojciech Przybylski - Editor-in-Chief, Visegrad Insight

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Police in Delhi raided the offices of news website NewsClick, detaining journalists over accusations of spreading Chinese propaganda. Johanna Hoes reports on the climate of tense Sino-Indian relations behind the arrests, and the unlikely source of the tip-off.

Why Russia is looting Ukraine’s art:
From the moment the Russian invasion began, museum workers in Ukraine knew they were coming for their collections. Tariq Nafi looks into the war being waged against Ukraine’s heritage and history.

Contributors:
Milena Chorna  - Head of the International Exhibitions Department, National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
Alina Dotsenko - Director, Kherson Regional Art Museum
Ihor Poshyvailo - General Director, Maidan Museum

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The resignation of 92-year-old media magnate Rupert Murdoch has set in motion the long-awaited succession of his empire. What effect will his son Lachlan’s leadership have on media - and politics - worldwide?

Contributors:
Kerry Flynn - Media Reporter, Axios
Des Freedman - Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Matt Gertz - Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America
Paddy Manning - Author, The Successor

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With a general election just two weeks away, a Polish film telling the story of Syrian and Afghan refugees has drawn the ire of the country’s ruling party. Meenakshi Ravi reports on the campaign targeting the film’s director.

The Mafia’s TikTok takeover:
Elements of the Italian underworld are surfacing … online. Flo Phillips reports, from Rome, on the Mafia’s new stomping ground - TikTok.

Contributors:
Alessandra Dolci  - Deputy Prosecutor, Milan Anti-Mafia Directorate
Nico Falco  - Journalist, Fanpage
Marcello Ravveduto  - Professor of Public and Digital History, University of Salerno

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As the residents of the city of Derna count their dead, authorities in eastern Libya expel news crews from the city and evade scrutiny of their role in the disaster.

Contributors:
Elham Saudi - Co-founder & director, Lawyers for Justice in Libya
Sami Zaptia - Editor-in-chief, Libya Herald
Anas El Gomati - Director, Sadeq Institute

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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch announced his resignation this week aged 92, handing over the reins of his empire to his son. Reporter Johanna Hoes explains the implications of the long-awaited move.

Archiving Nigeria’s past in print:
Fu’ad Lawal is a Nigerian journalist on a mission; to make a free online archive of the country’s newspapers since 1960. Meenakshi Ravi reports on the ambitious project aiming to bring Nigeria’s past to life.

Contributors:
Fu’ad Lawal - Founder, Archivi.Ng
Ruth Zakari - Editor-in-chief, Zikoko
Toyin Falola - Author, Decolonizing African Studies, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

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Saudi Arabia’s massive spending on sport is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s strategy to diversify the petrostate’s economy and re-shape its brand.

Contributors:
Abdullah Al-Arian - Author, Football in the Middle East
Gregg Carlstrom - Middle East Correspondent, The Economist
Kristin Diwan - Senior Research Scholar, The Arab Gulf States Institute
Rayhan Uddin - Journalist, Middle East Eye

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This week saw the launch of the biggest antitrust trial of the century against tech behemoth, Google. Flo Phillips explains what’s at stake, and why governments in the US and Europe are taking big tech to task.

God and atheism on YouTube:
Religious evangelists of all stripes have long enjoyed large platforms on social media - now, atheism is growing online. The Listening Post’s Ryan Kohls reports from the US on the country's Godless apostles on YouTube.

Contributors:
Seth Andrews - YouTuber, @TheThinkingAtheist
Drew McCoy - YouTuber, @GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic
Chrissy Stroop - Senior Correspondent, Religion Dispatches

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Politicians have long had a tendency to frame the past in a way that suits their political agenda in the present and the Holocaust is no different.

In this special episode of The Listening Post, Johanna Hoes reports on historical revisionism in Poland; the governing right-wing Law and Justice party’s attempts to portray all Polish people as heroes or victims while concealing an uncomfortable truth: that some Poles collaborated with the Nazis and were complicit in crimes against Jews.

Contributors:
Nelly Ben-Or - Holocaust Survivor & Pianist
Mindu Hornick - Auschwitz Survivor
Pawel Sawicki - Press Officer, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Jan Grabowski - Professor of History, University of Ottawa
Katia Patin - Multimedia Editor, Coda Story

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A military takeover in Niger as the Kremlin and Russian mercenaries lurk on the sidelines and the airwaves. But would Russia be any less exploitative than Niger’s old colonial masters?

Contributors:
Alexis Akwagyiram - Managing editor, Semafor Africa
Mathieu Oliver - Journalist, Jeune Afrique
Aanu Adeoye - West Africa correspondent, Financial Times
Delina Goxho - Security analyst

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China wants its citizens to be on the lookout - online - for spies. Johanna Hoes looks at their tips and tricks for spotting the difference between work and espionage.

India’s media whistleblower:
"India’s media is one of its biggest problems right now," says veteran Indian journalist Ravish Kumar, offering a sobering temperature check on the country's news media ahead of an upcoming election.

Contributor:
Ravish Kumar - Former host, NDTV India

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A viral video revealing a shocking case of sexual assault has put the northeastern Indian state of Manipur on the radar and shed light on a place that the mainstream media has paid scant attention to.

Contributors:
Anubha Bhonsle - founder, Newsworthy
Samrat Choudhury - journalist and author, Northeast India: A Political History
Patricia Mukhim - editor, The Shillong Times
Sushant Singh - consulting editor, The Caravan; senior fellow, Centre for Policy Research

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Israelis are describing the fight over judicial reform as a looming civil war. Producer Tariq Nafi looks at how the Israeli media has covered the story.

Satellite imagery: the final frontier for news?:
Satellites have entered the newsroom, but are they the all-seeing eye their makers claim them to be? Producer Ahmed Madi reports on the stories they are telling - and the stories they aren't.

Contributors:
Michael Cruickshank - geospatial analyst and open-source journalist
Chris Quilty - satellite and space industry analyst; CEO, Quilty Analytics
Lisa Parks - director, Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab; author, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual

For the first time in 63 years, Hollywood actors have joined writers in a double strike against studio powerhouses, demanding better pay, fairer working conditions, and protections from present and future AI threats.

Contributors:
Miranda Banks - Media professor, Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television
Daheli Hall - Writer and actor
Meg James - Senior entertainment writer, Los Angeles Times
Sharon Waxman - CEO and founder, The Wrap

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the United States this past week in an attempt to smooth over some diplomatic tensions. Meenakshi Ravi reports on the ceremonies and spectacle of the visit.

The politics behind football’s greatest rivalry:
Spanish voters head to the polls in a general election that could result in the strongest showing for the far right since the days of the Franco dictatorship. Flo Phillips explores the role football has played, and still plays, in Spanish politics and propaganda.

Contributors:
Guillem Balague - Football journalist and commentator
Sid Lowe - Author of Fear and Loathing in La Liga
Alejandro Quiroga - Reader in Spanish history, Newcastle University

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The United States-China relationship is a complex one. Beneath the diplomatic niceties lies deep mutual suspicion - two governments fully engaged in a bigger battle of narratives.

Contributors:
Jiayang Fan - staff writer, The New Yorker
Brian Hioe - editor, New Bloom Magazine
James Palmer - deputy editor, Foreign Policy

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In the United Kingdom, the BBC is in a state of turmoil after a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid alleged sexual misconduct involving one of the broadcaster’s most famous faces. Producer Flo Phillips reports on the saga that has seduced the British media.

Kenya’s deadly televangelist:
The politics of prayer: Producer Nicholas Muihead travels to Kenya to ask how the authorities there plan to regulate the power of televangelism and prevent another "Shakahola Massacre".

Contributors:
Ezra Chiloba - director general, Communications Authority of Kenya
Reuben Kigake - broadcast journalist and musician
Lee Scharnick-Udemans - senior researcher, Desmond Tutu Centre
Rodgers Shibutse - victim’s son
Joseph Yeri - journalist

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In the aftermath of one of the worst Israeli military attacks on the occupied West Bank in 20 years, the Israeli government takes issue with the global media’s coverage of the violence.

Contributors:
Amjad Iraqi - Senior editor, +972 Magazine
Gil Hoffman - Executive director, HonestReporting
Sarit Michaeli - International advocacy officer, B'Tselem
Tariq Kenney-Shawa - Journalist and US policy fellow, Al-Shabaka

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The chaos at Elon Musk’s Twitter - the Muskverse - has left the field open for competitors. Producer Meenakshi Ravi reports on the latest one - Threads - a new "text-based conversation" app launched by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.

Hollywood’s latest role: The Cultural Consultant:
Producer Flo Phillips explores the role of cultural consultants - are they really helping make Hollywood a better place or are they a substitute for real change?

Contributors:
Anamik Saha - Communications and cultural studies lecturer, Goldsmiths
Raeshem Nijhon - Cofounder, Culture House
Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo - Cultural consultant, Disney's 2021 animated film Encanto

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Analysts have been deciphering the Putin-Prigozhin power struggle; how it played out and what’s next for Russian politics and the war in Ukraine.

Contributors:
Ian Garner - Author, Z Generation
Eilish Hart - Editor, Meduza in English
Neil Hauer - Journalist
Leonid Ragozin - Freelance journalist

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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been hyping his Saudi megaproject in the desert. Producer Tariq Nafi looks into Neom and the PR company selling it to the world.

India’s Young YouTubers:
India’s YouTube boom and the reason why so many people are relying on it for news despite some of the misinformation that’s thriving there.

Contributors:
Sakshi Joshi - Former anchor, India TV and News24; News and Current Affairs YouTuber
Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry
Dhruv Rathee - News and Current Affairs YouTuber

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The most recent tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea - a boat of 750 refugees capsizing off Greece - has shed light on the European Union’s anti-immigration policies, the many media outlets reinforcing that message and the few independent ones that push back on the official narrative.

Contributors:
Giorgos Christides - journalist
Andrew Peter Geddes - professor of migration studies, European University Institute
Myria Georgiou - professor of media and communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrew Stroehlein - European media and editorial director, Human Rights Watch

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a global diplomatic roadshow. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at the photo ops and image-making during his state visit to the United States.

The silencing of dissent in Algeria:
This past week, one of Algeria's leading journalists, Ihsane El Kadi, was sentenced to seven years in prison on what many say are bogus charges. Producer Flo Phillips reports on the silencing of independent media and dissent in Algeria under its current president and the military powers that be.

Contributors:
Daikha Dridi - former host, Radio M, and former editor, Middle East Eye
Tin Hinane El Kadi - daughter, Ihsane El Kadi, and associate fellow, Chatham House
Dalia Ghanem - senior analyst, EU Institute for Security Studies

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In death, as in life, Silvio Berlusconi dominates the headlines. He was a man whose legacy across media, popular culture and politics is not confined just to Italy.

Contributors:
Roberto D’Alimonte - professor, LUISS Guido Carli University
Serena Danna - deputy director, Open
Paolo Gerbaudo - reader in digital politics, King’s College London
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli - Milan correspondent, Financial Times

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Donald Trump’s legal charges are piling up, but his campaign for re-election is still on. Flo Phillips discusses how the former US president has been using his numerous legal battles as fodder for his re-election campaign and the media attention he has been attracting.

Truth-telling in a time of war:
Covering a war is hard - harder still when you’re investigating your own military.

Contributors:
Lucy Kassa - Ethiopian journalist
Anna Myroniuk - investigative reporter, Kyiv Independent
Norman Solomon - author of War Made Invisible and media critic

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Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) have quickly turned from the excited to the apocalyptic. Are warnings that AI could pose an existential threat valid, or do they distract from the real danger AI is already causing?

Contributors:
Charlie Beckett - head, Polis LSE JournalismAI Project
Yoshua Bengio - professor of computer science, University of Montreal
Sarah Myers West - director, AI Now Institute
Émile P Torres - author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

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A year on from the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, producer Flo Phillips reports on the justice being served and how their work goes on, done by others.

Hitler, the Holocaust and the politics of memory:
Eight decades after the first train of prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Holocaust survivors - and their testimonies - are dwindling. Producer Johanna Hoes explores the politics of memory and the importance of recounting history, so it doesn’t repeat itself.

Contributors:
Jan Grabowski - professor of history, University of Ottawa
Mindu Hornick - Auschwitz survivor
Nelly Ben-Or - Holocaust survivor and pianist
Pawel Sawicki - press officer, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

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The acclaimed HBO TV series Succession immersed viewers in the world of the Roys, a family fighting for control of their elderly father’s media empire. Art imitates life, and as the series - which was partly, at times largely, based on the Murdochs - winds down, we examine what the hit show tells us about the dangers of corporate media.

Contributors:
Paddy Manning - Author, The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch
Banseka Kayembe - Culture Writer
David Folkenflik - Media Correspondent, NPR
Jane Martinson - Columnist, The Guardian and Professor of Financial Journalism, City, University of London

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No mercy for the mercenary. Meenakshi Ravi reports on how the Russian media has turned their back on the man who calls himself “Putin’s butcher” - Yevgeny Prigozhin.

India’s local journalism under pressure:
Being a local journalist in India is fraught with challenges. We speak to two journalists - one from Indian-administered Kashmir and the other from Chhattisgarh - about the pressures they face.

Contributors:
Kamal Shukla - Editor, Bhumkal Samachar
Anuradha Bhasin - Executive Editor, Kashmir Times

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After 12 years of being shunned for his crackdown on protests that pushed Syria towards civil war, President Bashar al-Assad returned to the Arab League’s annual summit. The process of al-Assad’s rehabilitation - spearheaded by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman - has taken years of PR, spin, photo ops and the casting aside of history.

Contributors:
Arwa Damon - Former senior international correspondent, CNN
Faisal Al Yafai - International editor, New Lines magazine
Nabih Bulos - Middle East bureau chief, Los Angeles Times
Sarah Hunaidi - Human rights advocate

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With a year and a half left to go before the US presidential elections, a sideshow has been unfolding within the right-wing media - it is all about who gets to tell the story first. Producer Meenakshi Ravi reports on the battle that sees Twitter pitted against Fox News.

The exposé that exposed the Ecuadorian president

Ecuador’s president, Guillermo Lasso, is hanging by a thread. He faces an impeachment trial with accusations of corruption at the highest level. Producer Flo Phillips looks into the journalists and the investigative outlet - La Posta - that broke the story.

Contributors:
Andersson Boscán - Founder and editor-in-chief, La Posta
Manel Palos-Pons - Assistant professor of journalism, San Jose State University
María Sol Borja - Political editor, GK

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With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the verge of re-election in the second round next week, what’s next for what is left of Turkish journalism?

Contributors:
Mustafa Akyol - Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Ravza Kavakci Kan - AK Party Member of Parliament
Seren Selvin Korkmaz - Co-founder, IstanPol Institute & Lecturer, Stockholm University
Güney Yildiz - Researcher & Analyst

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Another death in Guatemala. Producer Flo Phillips reports on elPeriódico, the investigative magazine forced to close after coming into conflict with the powers that be.

US vs China: The (cold) war of words:
Reflecting tensions or creating them? Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at the media’s role in the geopolitical staredown between two of the world’s great economic and military powers - China and the United States.

Contributors:
Kaiser Kuo - Host, Sinica Podcast
Lizzi Lee - Journalist, Wall Street TV
Einar Tangen - Senior Fellow, Taihe Institute & Founder, Asia Narratives

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Palestinian existence in Jerusalem is under threat - carefully watched, recorded and restricted. In the Old City’s narrow streets and alleys, cameras are inescapable.

In the second episode of a two-part special, Tariq Nafi reports from the occupied West Bank, on how Israel’s surveillance machine infiltrates the lives of Palestinians. He also speaks with a former Israeli lieutenant in Unit 8200 - the elite intelligence unit responsible for spying on Palestinians.

Contributors:
Rula Jamal - Head of Monitoring & Documentation, Al Haq
Jalal Abukhater - Writer
Amal Sumarin - Silwan resident
Helga Tawil-Souri - Associate Professor, NYU
Israeli former Lieutenant Eli - Unit 8200

Watch Part one: https://youtu.be/B1RNj8FXKqY

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Palestinians in Hebron are some of the most heavily monitored and controlled people on the planet.

In the first episode of a two-part special, Tariq Nafi reports from the occupied West Bank on the previously unknown facial recognition system ‘Red Wolf’, uncovered by Amnesty International and Breaking the Silence.

Contributors:  
Izzat Karaki — activist; volunteer, Youth Against Settlements
Sophia Goodfriend — journalist; researcher, Duke University
Matt Mahmoudi — researcher and adviser, Amnesty International
Former Major General B — ex-Israeli military officer who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity

With thanks to Amnesty International, Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, Durham University, Akevot Institute, and Rona Sela.

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The Sudanese capital, Khartoum, looks like a war zone these days, as two generals and their armies fight for control of one country. Both are pushing their narratives on social media and jostling for command of the state-run airwaves.

Contributors:
Declan Walsh - Chief Africa correspondent, The New York Times
Matthew Benson - Sudan research director, London School of Economics
Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Author, Talking About A Revolution
Hager Ali - Research fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Dallia Mohammed Abdelmoneim – Sudanese activist

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This past week marked the 75th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel and, as producer Meenakshi Ravi explains, the words one European official chose to mark the occasion have drawn a furious backlash.

Racism and repression in Kais Saied’s Tunisia:
Producer Tariq Nafi reports on the xenophobic rhetoric of Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, and the surge in violence it has triggered against the country’s Black community.

Contributors:
Monia Ben Hamadi - Editor-in-chief, Inkyfada
Reem Garfi - Anti-racism activist
Amine Snoussi - Journalist and political analyst

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Twitter, the damage that Elon Musk has done to the brand and the journalists who can’t quite quit the platform

Contributors:
Bobby Allyn - technology reporter, NPR
Matt Binder - reporter, Mashable
Shirin Ghaffary - senior social media correspondent, VOX
Amanda Silberling - senior culture writer, TechCrunch

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Fox News settles with Dominion Voting Systems. "The Big Lie" came with a big price tag, but producer Flo Phillips explains how the conservative news network got away with a lot more than it paid for.

Venezuela's alternative media movement:
The social infrastructure in Venezuela is collapsing, and when journalists bring that up, they have to contend with President Nicolás Maduro’s government and its authoritarian tendencies. Producer Ryan Kohls looks at the media outlets driven underground in Maduro’s Venezuela.

Contributors:
Daniela Alvarado - The Press & Society Institute of Venezuela
Laura Helena Castillo Rodríguez - co-founder, El Bus TV
Roberto Deniz  - journalist, Armando.info
Vladimir Villegas - host, Vladimir Villegas TV

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Twitter, the damage that Elon Musk has done to the brand and the journalists who can’t quite quit the platform

Contributors:
Bobby Allyn - technology reporter, NPR
Matt Binder - reporter, Mashable
Shirin Ghaffary - senior social media correspondent, VOX
Amanda Silberling - senior culture writer, TechCrunch

On our radar:
Fox News settles with Dominion Voting Systems. "The Big Lie" came with a big price tag, but producer Flo Phillips explains how the conservative news network got away with a lot more than it paid for.

Venezuela's alternative media movement:
The social infrastructure in Venezuela is collapsing, and when journalists bring that up, they have to contend with President Nicolás Maduro’s government and its authoritarian tendencies. Producer Ryan Kohls looks at the media outlets driven underground in Maduro’s Venezuela.

Contributors:
Daniela Alvarado - The Press & Society Institute of Venezuela
Laura Helena Castillo Rodríguez - co-founder, El Bus TV
Roberto Deniz  - journalist, Armando.info
Vladimir Villegas - host, Vladimir Villegas TV

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Washington is dealing with the biggest United States intelligence leak in a decade. Among the secrets already revealed: sensitive information on the war in Ukraine and evidence of the US spying on its allies. American officials are in diplomatic damage control mode, trying to manage the coverage of a story that shows no sign of letting up.

Contributors:
Anatol Lieven - Eurasia programme director, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Anton Barbashin - Editorial director, Riddle
Idrees Ali - National security correspondent, Reuters
Lucy Birge - Russian media specialist and open-source researcher

On our radar:
Producer Flo Phillips looks into leaks of a different kind at Fox News. An upcoming lawsuit and a bunch of private text messages, made public, turn an interview with former President Donald Trump into an awkward affair.

Street papers changing the perception of homelessness:
"Street papers" are part of the media landscape worldwide - providing the unhoused vendors who sell them an income, and the audiences that read them stories surrounding homelessness. Producer Johanna Hoes looks into Street Roots, a paper based in Portland, Oregon, telling the word on the street, from the ground up.

Contributors:
Israel Bayer - Director, International Network of Street Papers North America
Dumpsta D - Vendor and poet, Street Roots
Karen Flemming - Vendor, Street Roots
Chris Herring - Professor of sociology, UCLA
Nettie Johnson - Vendor and writer, Street Roots
DeVon Pouncey - Vendor program director, Street Roots
Kaia Sand - Executive director, Street Roots

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The hard-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu is facing off against Israeli protesters triggered by sweeping changes to judicial powers in the country. Adding to the cacophony is news coverage from outlets that range from the Fox-style Channel 14, with its conspiracy theories and pro-government talking points, to the opportunistic Channel 13, which is trying to recast itself as being supportive of the protests.

Contributors:
Eva Berger - Senior lecturer in media studies, COLMAN
Joshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish Currents
Diana Buttu - Lawyer and political activist
Oren Persico - Writer, The Seventh Eye

On our radar:
In the geopolitical battle between the United States and China, one of the world’s most popular social media sites - TikTok - is taking a beating. And there is no resolution in sight just yet. Meenakshi Ravi has been tracking this story.

Greece’s spyware scandal:
Greece is facing a continuing surveillance scandal after it was revealed that several journalists had their phones hacked by spyware employed for surveillance by the Greek intelligence service. While a scandal of this magnitude should typically attract the attention of the country’s media, it is not. Producer Phillips Flo reports on Greece’s spyware scandal and the silence of the country’s media on the affair.

Contributors:
Eliza Triantafillou - Investigative journalist, Inside Story
Thanasis Koukakis - Financial editor, CNN Greece
Stefanos Loukopoulos - Co-founder and director, Vouliwatch

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When former United States president Donal Trump posted news of his imminent indictment, it set off a wave of headlines. News coverage in the US was divided along standard partisan lines, and all of them were fodder for Trump’s 2024 campaign machine.

Contributors:
Ankush Khardori - Former federal prosecutor; contributing editor, New York Magazine
Jon Allsop - Journalist
John Nichols - Co-Author, The Death and Life of American Journalism; national affairs correspondent, The Nation
Jennifer Stromer-Galley - Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University

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Within days of the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, the Kremlin orchestrated a photo op with the president of China. The message: that Russia does not stand alone. Producer Johanna Hoes has more.

Nicaragua: Hell for journalists:
What is life like for journalists in Nicaragua? In the 15 years President Daniel Ortega has been in power, the country has become a living hell for journalists. The Listening Post’s Tariq Nafi reports on how the one-time poster child of the international left turned into an enemy of the press and the journalists in Nicaragua who continue to show resistance.

Contributors:
Carlos Fernando Chamorro - Director, Esta Semana
Journalist - Founder, Confidencial
Bianca Jagger - Human rights advocate

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The suspension by the BBC of Gary Lineker, a well-known footballer-turned-broadcaster, over a tweet comparing the United Kingdom’s new immigration bill with 1930s' Nazi Germany, is exposing the double standards in British journalism and politics.

Contributors:
Myria Georgiou - Professor, LSE
William Turvill - Media correspondent, New Statesman
Ash Sarkar - Contributing editor, Novara Media
Martin Bell - Former correspondent, BBC News

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Afghan journalists are paying with their lives in the power struggle between the Taliban and ISIL (ISIS). Producer Flo Phillips looks into the targeted explosion that marked Afghanistan’s National Journalism Day.

Generative AI and journalism:
Are you OK with AI?  Artificial intelligence is not exactly new, but it is having a blockbuster few months with constantly developing software that can do much more than responding to instructions. Producer Ahmed Madi explains the potential of AI and how it might transform the media you consume.

Contributors:
Jon Christian - Managing editor, Futurism
Melissa Heikkilä - Senior reporter, MIT Technology Review
Pranav Dixit - Tech reporter, BuzzFeed News

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United States media giant Fox News is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems, whose tabulating machines former president Donald Trump insists were rigged against him. The case has produced several "smoking guns", showing that key figures at the network including its owner, Rupert Murdoch, knew Trump’s stolen election narrative was bogus, but chose to broadcast it anyway.

Contributors:
Peter Jukes - Author, The Fall of the House of Murdoch & co-founder, Byline Times
Jay Rosen - Associate professor, New York University
David Folkenflik - Media correspondent, NPR
Molly Jong-Fast - Special correspondent, Vanity Fair & host, Fast Politics podcast

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Russians have been seeing a flurry of Ukraine-related media activity involving figures on both the pro and anti-Kremlin side - with a Fox News angle served up on the side. Meenakshi Ravi reports.

Parodying politics: Taiwan’s satirists:
China versus Taiwan. A geopolitical mismatch that satirists are making the most of.

Contributors:
Chen Tzu-chien - Host & creator, EYECTV
Kylie Wang - Co-host, Bailingguo News
Yu-hui Tai - Associate professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

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Two months in to the most far-right government in Israel’s history, Palestinians are seeing their rights evaporate while the media - both Israeli and international - underplay the Palestinian plight.

Contributors:
Sarit Michaeli - International advocacy officer, B'Tselem
Issa Amro - Hebron-based Palestinian activist
Ziv Stahl - Executive director, Yesh Din; contributor, +974 magazine
Khaled Elgindy - Palestinian-Israeli affairs programme, Middle East Institute; author, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump

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Nearly a month after the earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people across Turkey and Syria, the clampdown continues on critical reporting and anything else the Turkish government deems problematic. Producer Meenakshi Ravi reports on how extensive the crackdown has been.

Pakistani journalism in crisis:
The Pakistani government is facing trouble on multiple fronts - political, economic, and on security. For the country’s media, things have come to a state where the incentives not to do the journalistic job are often greater than the motivators to actually do it.

Contributors:
Farzana Ali - Peshawar bureau chief, Aaj TV
Amber Shamsi - Director, The Centre for Excellence in Journalism

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An electric election campaign has come to an end in Nigeria as voting gets under way for a new president. With a new generation of politically engaged voters, widespread disillusionment with the status quo and a surprise candidate polling strongly, could this election be the inflection point many Nigerians talk about?

Contributors:
Ayisha Osori - Director of the Executive Vice President’s Office, Open Society Foundations
Joachim MacEbong - Senior analyst, Stears
Bukola Adebayo - Correspondent, Context Newsroom

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In Tunisia, there has been a sudden and sharp tightening of screws on critics of President Kais Saied. Producer Johanna Hoes has been tracking the string of high-profile arrests.

What has war meant for Ukraine’s media?
A year after Russia's invasion of their country, Ukrainian journalists speak about the toll of war on them and their profession.

Contributors:
Marichka Padalko - TV anchor, 1+1
Lina Kushch - Secretary general, Union of Journalists of Ukraine
Evgeniy Maloletka - Photojournalist

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For the past three months, Peru has been in a state of political turmoil. With one impeached president – Pedro Castillo – in prison and his successor Dina Boluarte managing a tense nation, non-stop protests have rocked the nation.

In the midst of this, establishment media – news outlets mostly owned and controlled by Peru’s elite – are at odds with many of the protesters, adding fuel to a raging fire of discontent.

Contributors:
Simeon Tegel - Peru-based journalist
Jonathan Castro - editor, La Encerrona
Jacqueline Fowks - Peru specialist, Reporters Without Borders
Cecilia Valenzuela - news editor, Caretas

On our radar:
For the rescuers still trying to find survivors under the earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria, social media – through messages posted by victims on Youtube, Twitter and Instagram – has helped save lives. But the Turkish government has been riled by some of the online content. A lot of this is criticism of the state’s response to the earthquake, some of which is genuinely false information. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks into the details of the story.

Belarus: Dissidents in exile:
For nearly 30 years, Belarus has been ruled by Alexander Lukashenko. Criticism of his autocratic government and its close relationship with the Kremlin comes at a high cost, although some Belarusians in exile still speak out. Producer Johanna Hoes reports on those outside the country who are still getting stories of corruption, repression and forced Russification out.

Contributors:
Margarita Levchuk - opera singer and political satirist
Jan Rudzik - blogger, Post+ Rudzik
Yuliana Shemetovets -hacktivist, Cyber Partisans Collective

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Under a new, ultra-nationalist Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, violence in the occupied Palestinian territories has been escalating at an alarming rate.

But the continuing human rights abuses, including the theft of Palestinian land to pave the way for Jewish settlers, are not portrayed as such in the Israeli news media. They either ignore the brutality of the occupation or present a military-friendly version of the story - and neither option is good enough for the Israeli government, which has voices of dissent in its crosshairs.

Contributors:
Oren Zviv - Journalist, +972 Mag
Gideon Levy - Columnist, Haaretz
Diana Buttu - Lawyer and analyst
Omar Baddar - Political analyst

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The death of one of Rwanda's most prolific investigative journalists - John Williams Ntwali - has sparked suspicion because of how murky the official narrative on his death is. Producer Nic Muirhead reports on the case.

Lost in translation: How texts change as they travel:
The translation of literature, from one language to another, is tricky business - it’s much more subtle than journalism, less direct. When it comes to Arabic and Persian, literature from the Middle East, translations have been known to come up short, leading to cultural misunderstandings. The kind of misunderstandings that reading the books of the “other” is supposed to correct. Producer Tariq Nafi looks at what gets lost in translation.

Contributors:
Layla AlAmmar - Author, Silence is a Sense; academic, University of Lancaster
Susan Bassnet- Translation theorist and emeritus professor, University of Warwick
Muhammad Ali Mojaradi - Translator; founder of @persianpoetics
Leri Price - Literary translator

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The Indian government’s decision to ban a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than a thousand people dead, has become its own story.

It has drawn global attention to Modi’s record in office and the subsequent decline of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Contributors:
Maya Mirchandani - Journalist, The Wire
Mitali Saran - Writer and columnist
Shruti Kapila - Professor of Indian history and global political thought, University of Cambridge
Sanjay Kapoor - Editor, HardNews Magazine

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Investigations by Open Democracy and the Financial Times have uncovered how libel lawyers in London helped Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group and one of Vladimir Putin’s key allies, to go after his critics, including journalists, in the British courts. Producer Tariq Nafi talks us through the findings.

Striking Back: United Kingdom's unions vs the media:
With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a wave of work stoppages has put trade unions, and the media’s treatment of them, into the spotlight. One particular union leader, Mick Lynch, has flipped the script, putting journalists on the defensive for their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media.

Contributors:
Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian
Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review
Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC
Mick Lynch - General secretary, RMT Union

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The stories that have come out of the Twitter Files have touched on much more than institutional bias - revealing that, for years, Twitter has been pressured by some very powerful institutions to suppress, moderate and in some cases amplify its content. But given that Elon Musk was also selective with what he chose to hand over to reporters – what are we not seeing in the Twitter Files?

Contributors:
Ben Wallace-Wells - Staff writer, The New Yorker
Eli Clifton - Senior adviser, Quincy Institute
Evan Greer - Director, Fight for the Future
Angelo Carusone - President, Media Matters for America

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The killing of yet another Palestinian by Israeli soldiers has led to more misinformation from the army – that Israeli news outlets then dutifully report. Flo Phillips reports on how these shifting narratives keep playing out.

The Menace of SLAPPs:
A SLAPP - a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - is a type of legal case deployed against journalists, academics and public interest activists. Meenakshi Ravi explains how SLAPPs have become a regular tool to try and silence journalistic work.

Contributors:
Caroline Kean - Media litigation specialist and partner, Wiggin LLP
Paul Radu - Investigative journalist and co-founder, Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project
Annelie Östlund - Investigative journalist, Realtid

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The recent invasion of Brazil’s democratic institutions, days after President Lula da Silva was sworn in, looks like a carbon copy of the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol in the United States.

Like MAGA Americans, many of Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have been radicalised online and, as the Trump-Bolsonaro effect hits Brazil, the country’s issues with misinformation are exposed.

Contributors:
David Nemer - Assistant professor, University of Virginia
Charlotte Peet - Journalist
Gustavo Ribeiro - Founder, The Brazilian Report
Rose Marie Santini - Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Director, NetLab

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In Belarus this week, reporters from what was once the country’s top independent news outlet went on trial. Meenakshi Ravi reports on Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on journalists that looks Putin-esque.

The Mafia’s TikTok takeover:
Elements of the Italian underworld are surfacing online. Flo Phillips reports from Rome on the Mafia’s new stomping ground - TikTok.

Contributors:
Alessandra Dolci - Deputy prosecutor, Milan Anti-Mafia Directorate
Nico Falco - Journalist, Fanpage
Marcello Ravveduto - Professor of digital public history, University of Salerno

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On this special edition of our programme - a timeline of our reports through 2022 on the media dimension of this conflict - from the build-up to the invasion, right through the messaging war and the global media’s news coverage.

Contributors:

Max Seddon - Moscow bureau chief, Financial Times
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - News director and anchor, TV Rain
Terrell Starr - Host, Black Diplomats podcast
Alexey Kovalyov - Investigative editor, Meduza
Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin
Natalia Antelava - Editor-in-chief, Coda Story
Vera Tolz - Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester
Maria Avdeeva - Disinformation researcher
Melinda Haring - Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
James Rodgers - Author, Assignment Moscow
Aglaya Snetkov - Associate professor, International Politics of Russia, University College London
Mikhail Fishman - Anchor, TV Rain
Jade McGlynn - Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Katrina vanden Heuvel - Editorial director, The Nation
George Beebe - Former director of Russia Analysis, CIA
Leonid Ragozin - Journalist and author

Gautam Adani - India’s richest man with close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi - is in the midst of a takeover of NDTV, a news network considered one of the last bastions of critical journalism on the Indian airwaves. If the sale does go through - what are the chances that Adani will prioritise his relationship with power over the channel’s independence?

Contributors:
Ravi Nair - Journalist & commentator
Raksha Kumar - Mumbai-based journalist
Atul Chaurasia - Executive editor, Newslaundry
Kapil Komireddi - Author, Malevolent Republic

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Meta - the company that owns Facebook - is being sued for nearly $2bn for allegedly not adequately monitoring violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia on its platform. Producer Meenakshi Ravi has the details of the case.

Changing the Face(book) of Italy’s media landscape:
In the decade since its birth, Fanpage has grown from a Facebook page to an award-winning investigative news website, gradually reshaping the staid Italian media landscape. Producer Flo Phillips reports, from Naples, on how the Facebook page-turned-news source symbolises a shift in the country’s media.

Contributors:
Gaia Martignetti - Video reporter, Fanpage
Francesco Cancellato - Editor-in-chief, Fanpage
Alessio Cornia - Research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

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Israel’s incoming government, elected six weeks ago, is shaping up as the most extreme in the country’s history - waging war on media workers, then trying to cover up its crimes.

But evidence of those crimes frequently ends up online thanks to citizen journalism and satellite imagery - and that is making an impact, often bigger abroad than at home.

Contributors:
Yara Hawari - Senior policy analyst, al-Shabaka
Diana Buttu - Human rights lawyer & former adviser to the PLO
Joshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish Currents
Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project

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Just five months after fleeing Moscow and setting up shop in the Latvian capital, Riga, independent Russian broadcaster, TV Rain, or Dozhd, has had its broadcasting licence revoked, once again. Producer Meenakshi Ravi outlines the NATO country’s reasoning.

The Middle East’s first World Cup:
Ever since Qatar won its bid to host the World Cup 12 years ago, football journalists have been reporting on issues that go well beyond the pitch. Producer Johanna Hoes reports, from Doha, on the news coverage of the World Cup and what the tournament's legacy could be for Brand Qatar.

Contributors:
Abdullah al-Arian - Author, Football in the Middle East
Zahra Babar - Georgetown University in Qatar
Craig LaMay - Northwestern University in Qatar
Sam Cunningham - Chief football correspondent, The iPaper

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After two years of some of the most stringent COVID restrictions in the world, many in China are fed up and are demanding a loosening of the controls - in some cases, even calling out President Xi Jinping. They are running the gauntlet of a surveillance state that comes down hard on dissent.

Contributors:
Victor Gao - vice president, Center for China and Globalization
Carl Zha - host, Silk & Steel podcast
Lizzi Lee - journalist, Wall St TV & Host, Live with Lizzi Lee
Josh Chin - deputy China bureau chief, Wall Street Journal

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An open letter to Washington from five international newspapers says that the United States's demand for Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange's extradition sets a “dangerous precedent” for freedom of the press.

Art in times of turmoil in Sri Lanka:
The Sri Lankan protests which forced former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of office featured memes, viral videos, songs, dances, cartoons and caricatures. The protest art conveyed what mainstream media could not - or would not: Sri Lankans were done with the Rajapaksas and their corruption.

Contributors:
Hasini Haputhanthri - cultural sociologist
Sanjana Hattotuwa - research fellow, The Disinfo Project
Randy Chriz Perera - artist and animator
Vasi Samudra Devi - artist and activist

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As the war in Ukraine hits nine months, the news output is becoming harder, not easier, to navigate.

Much of the coverage is misleading at best and dangerous at worst - and with the war showing no signs of stopping, even the term diplomacy has somehow become a dirty word.

Contributors:
Branko Marcetic - writer, Jacobin magazine
Leonid Ragozin - journalist
George Beebe - director of grand strategy, Quincy Institute think tank

On our radar:
One week down, three weeks to go for World Cup 2022 and some Western news outlets are still doubting Qatar’s suitability as a host country. Others are pointing out the double standards at play. Producer Johanna Hoes reports from Doha on the competing narratives off the pitch.

Destination Damascus: Social media tourism arrives in Syria:
As travel content out of Syria draws millions of hits online, some Syrians raise concerns about its potential PR benefits. Producer Ahmed Madi explores the curious world of travel vlogging and what looks like a victory lap for Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Contributors:
Paul Nabil Matthis - Syrian-American author and TikTok content creator
Sarah Hunaidi - exiled Syrian writer and communications and advocacy consultant
Davud Akhundzada - travel content creator

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It has been less than a month since Elon Musk took over Twitter - and things do not seem to be going well for "social media’s public square". With thousands of employees laid off and advertisers pulling money from the platform, many wonder what will be left of Twitter by the time Musk is done?

Contributors:
Lia Holland - Campaigns and communications director, Fight for the Future
Chris Stokel-Walker - Technology journalist  and author, TikTok Boom
Jenna Golden - Founder, Golden Strategies and former Twitter employee
Marwa Fatafta - MENA policy director, Access Now

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Football fans everywhere are turning their attention to Qatar as the 2022 World Cup officially kicks off. Producer Johanna Hoes reports from Doha on the - at times unwanted - media attention Qatar is receiving, and how organisers are attempting to manage the messaging, a PR legacy that will live well beyond December 18th.

As the world overheats, what’s it like to be a climate journalist?

Another COP summit has come and gone and whether approaching climate change from the Global South or North - it is a challenging story to cover. The Listening Post speaks with two journalists who share the relentless effort it takes to report on the world’s most complex issue.

Contributors:
Leo Hickman - Director, Carbon Brief
Elaíze Farias - Journalist, Amazônia Real

With world leaders gathered in Egypt for the latest UN climate summit, the agenda could not be clearer. Experts say the policies governments put in place at last year’s conference in Scotland will still leave large parts of the planet uninhabitable. The lack of progress has many questioning the COP process.

Contributors:
Bahar Dutt - Environmental journalist; associate professor, Shiv Nadar University
Asad Rehman - Executive director, War on Want; lead spokesperson, Climate Justice Coalition
Katharine Hayhoe - Chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Joanna Depledge - Former programme officer, UN Climate Secretariat; research fellow, Climate Strategies

On our radar:

Egypt is under fire over the case of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose imprisonment has threatened to overshadow proceedings for COP27. Tariq Nafi looks into the case.

Prigozhin: the man doing Putin's dirty work

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the Russian oligarch best known as the man behind Wagner - a private military company - mercenaries notorious for doing the Kremlin’s bidding overseas. He’s also the creator of a media network which has produced propaganda and misinformation in Russia and abroad.

Contributor:
Ilya Barabanov - Journalist, BBC

Credit: 'All Eyes On Wagner' - a project by OpenFacto dedicated to tracking Wagner mercenaries’ activities around the world and their alleged abuses.

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Not content with manufacturing cars, generating energy, getting into space travel - Elon Musk is in the midst of a $44bn takeover of Twitter. Now he has also been involved in foreign policy conflicts - from Russia-Ukraine to China and Taiwan. Musk clearly considers himself a geopolitical player, but he is entering a world in which he has no expertise, just interests.

Contributors:
Chris Stokel-Walker - Technology journalist & author, TikTokBoom
Peter Micek - General counsel, Access Now
Jason Jay Smart - Special correspondent, Kyiv Post
Siva Vaidhyanathan - Professor of media studies, University of Virginia; author, Anti-social Media

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Rupert Murdoch is on the verge of yet another business move, wanting to combine the two halves of his media empire: the TV side - Fox Corp - with the online news business - News Corp. Producer Meenakshi Ravi explores how the merger is much more an exercise in succession planning than a business deal in itself.

Striking Back: UK’s Unions vs the Media:
With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a rare wave of work stoppages has put trade unions – and the media’s treatment of them – into the spotlight. Following successive rail strikes, right-wing newspapers have blamed the unions for travel disruptions, but one union leader - Mick Lynch - has flipped the script – putting journalists on the defensive over their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media.

Contributors:
Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian
Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review
Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC

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Inside Russia, the narrative around the "war" is changing. The pro-war Putin-faithful are grappling with defeats they never expected and generals are taking the flak from public figures, loyalists on state TV channels, and even military bloggers.

Contributors:
Jade McGlynn - Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies
Maxim Alyukov - King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London
Mikhail Fishman - Anchor, Dozhd TV
Katrina vanden Heuvel - Editorial director, The Nation

On our radar:
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei finally broke his silence on the protests that have shaken the country for weeks. Producer Flo Phillips analyses Khamenei’s speech - key parts of which he also tweeted - and the repercussions it has had at home and abroad.

Russia: National myths and rewriting history:
Last year, the Kremlin published an essay - in Vladimir Putin’s name - arguing that Russians and Ukrainians are of the same Slavic nation. This new historical discourse has been key in the narrative built around the invasion of Ukraine. Producer Tariq Nafi looks into the battle over historical memory in Russia.

Contributors:
Nikita Petrov - Historian and member, Memorial
Yevgenia Albats - Journalist and editor-in-chief, The New Times
Mikhail Myagkov - Scientific director, Russian Military-Historical Society

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After being forced off mainstream social media, QAnon followers fled to the outer reaches of the internet and, since then, QAnon’s gamification of reality has morphed into more pragmatic goals - like electing certain politicians. Chief among them is Donald Trump, whose occasional flirtation with the movement has moved to more of an open embrace.

Contributors:
Mia Bloom - Professor of communication, Georgia State University
Alex Kaplan - Senior researcher, Media Matters for America
Kurt Eichenwald - Author and journalist
Julian Feeld - Host and producer, QAnon Anonymous podcast

On our radar:
In a televised speech this past week, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is not ruling out the use of nuclear weapons to protect its people. Producer Johanna Hoes reports on how this threat is still reverberating overseas - and how it’s had consequences for the people and the pundits at home.

A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon:
Game designer Reed Berkowitz explores how the world of QAnon is similar to the ones he creates - in alternate reality games. His analysis explains how our flawed minds work, and how easily we can be dragged down the conspiratorial rabbit hole.

Contributor:
Reed Berkowitz - Game designer

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In death, as in life, British Queen Elizabeth II is at the centre of a media spectacle - but not all outlets, especially those outside the United Kingdom, have maintained a tone of reverence, with many confronting thorny issues from the monarchy’s past.

Contributors:
Mic Wright - Media critic
Maya Jasanoff - Professor of History, Harvard University
Laura Clancy - Author, Running the Family Firm, and lecturer in Media, Lancaster University
Tim Ewart - Royal commentator, and former royal editor, ITV News

On our radar:
Nearly seven months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there have been major breakthroughs on the battlefield. Producer Flo Phillips explains how those breakthroughs have had repercussions for the Russian state media narrative.

Latin America's TikTok politicos:
Right-wing politicians in Latin America are relying heavily on TikTok - and its short, catchy videos - to sell themselves. Producer Ryan Kohls explores how the social media platform of the moment is affecting politics across the continent.

Contributors:
Fernanda Seavon - Writer and photographer
Sebastian Valenzuela - Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and researcher, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data
Edgard Gutierrez - Political consultant and strategist, and a member of the International Association of Political Consultants.

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India is at a dangerous moment.

The voices of Hindutva - Hindu supremacy - are ascending, spreading division and hate speech. It has worked its way through the body politic like a slow-acting poison. And the effect on the secular fabric of the Indian republic and the lives of minorities - especially Muslims - has proven toxic, at times deadly.

Contributors:
Kanchan Gupta - Senior adviser, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry
Arvind Rajagopal - Professor of Media Studies, NYU
Shahrukh Alam - Advocate and columnist
Gregory Stanton - President, Genocide Watch

The High Court in the United Kingdom is debating whether Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the United States. Press freedom advocates say handing him over would put journalists everywhere at risk.

Contributors:
Tariq Ali - Author, In Defence of Julian Assange
Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin
Anna Loll - Freelance journalist
Holly Cullen - Adjunct professor of law, University of Western Australia

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An organisation set up by Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has released a blacklist of politicians, academics and journalists it considers "pro-Russian propagandists". Producer Johanna Hoes reports on the Ukrainian government’s Kremlin-esque approach to freedom of opinion.

Kenyan elections: Influencers & dangerous disinformation:
As the Kenyan election race heats up, producer Ryan Kohls asks if politicians are paying influencers to push disinformation and dangerous propaganda.

Contributors:
Odanga Madung - Fellow, Mozilla
Wanjiru Nguhi - Coordinator, Fumbua Initiative
Mac Otani - Digital strategist, Raila Odinga Campaign
Dennis Itumbi - Digital strategist, William Ruto Campaign

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As Tunisia prepares to vote on a controversial new constitution, President Kais Saied’s continuing power grab risks reversing the country's hard-won media freedoms.

Contributors:
Thameur Mekki - Editor-in-chief, Nawaat
Monia Ben Hamadi - Media consultant
Monica Marks - Professor of Middle East politics, NYU Abu Dhabi

On our radar:
In Iran, three acclaimed film directors are arrested for statements made on social media in support of anti-government protests. Meenakshi Ravi reports on why Iran is going after outspoken artists.

Ghana’s LGBTQ-phobia & the media:
Ghana’s media cheers on proposed anti-LGBTQ+ laws, even while they threaten freedom of the press.

Contributors:
Sam Nartey George - Member of parliament
Ebenezer Peegah - Founder, Rightify Ghana
Kapya Kaoma - Anglican priest

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Social media users and their smartphones have driven and documented protests that ended the presidency of Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Even mainstream media outlets have been forced to assess the sort of coverage they do.

Contributors:
Nalaka Gunawardene - Media analyst
Vindhya Buthpitiya - Anthropologist, University of St Andrews
Bhavani Fonseka - Human rights lawyer
Sanjana Hattotuwa - Research fellow, The Disinfo Project

On our radar:
Bashar al-Assad’s latest Aleppo visit was a PR hit. Tariq Nafi has more on the highly symbolic visit that provided plenty of media opportunities.

India’s local journalism under pressure:
Being a local journalist in India is fraught with challenges. We speak to two journalists - one from Indian-administered Kashmir and the other from Chhattisgarh - about the pressures they face.

Contributors:
Kamal Shukla - Editor, Bhumkal Samachar
Anuradha Bhasin - Executive editor, Kashmir Times

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As Egypt’s President el-Sisi kicks off a "National Dialogue" on human rights, the precarious fate of jailed writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah exposes the grave climate for free speech in the country.\r\n\r\nContributors:\r\nMona Seif - Sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah\r\nNancy Okail - President, Center for International Policy\r\nAmr Khalifa - Political analyst\r\nSabrina Bennoui - Head of the Middle East desk, Reporters Without Borders\r\n\r\nOn our radar:\r\nFall from disgrace. Ex-journalist turned Prime Minister Boris Johnson is basically done at 10 Downing Street.\r\n\r\nMedia, monopolies and the rewriting of Chile’s constitution:\r\nChile is working on a new constitution that has some of Augusto Pinochet’s favourite news outlets fighting for their corporate lives.\r\n\r\nContributors:\r\nPatricio Fernández - Member, Chilean Constitutional Convention Journalist & Founder, The Clinic\r\nJorge Saavedra - Author, The Media Commons and Social Movements\r\nClaudio Fuentes - Historian, Diego Portales University; author, The Fraud: Chronicle on the Plebiscite of the 1980 Constitution\r\nBelén Pellegrini - Journalist, La Neta

The Supreme Court of the United States has revoked the legal right to have an abortion, and certain sectors of the US media have had an important role to play in pushing things in this direction.\\r\\n\\r\\nContributors:\\r\\nJenna Sherman - Science writer, Meedan\\r\\nCaitlin Cruz - Senior reporter, Jezebel\\r\\nTerry Heaton - Author, The Gospel of Self: How Pat Robertson Stole the Soul of the GOP\\r\\nSamuel Perry - Sociologist, University of Oklahoma\\r\\n\\r\\nOn our radar:\\r\\nFormer Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has taken a swipe at his journalistic nemesis - Maria Ressa - just as he leaves office. Flo Philips on the shutdown of news outlet Rappler.\\r\\n\\r\\nThe resounding silence over Balochistan:\\r\\nPakistan’s Balochistan province is underreported and misrepresented in the media. Those who dare to report on the issues of the region pay a heavy price.\\r\\n\\r\\nContributors:\\r\\nMohammed Hanif - Author, The Baloch Who Is Not Missing and Others Who Are\\r\\nMahvish Ahmad - Co-founder, Tanqeed\\r\\nKiyya Baloch - Baloch journalist in exile

Ukraine - and the Kremlin’s special media operation that has Russian journalists under control.

Contributors:
Anthony Borden - CEO, Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
Andrei Soldatov - Editor-In-Chief, Agentura.ru, investigative journalist
Mariia Zolkina - Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies, Democratic Initiatives Foundation
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - News director, Dozhd TV

On our radar:
The Times of London crumbles under political pressure. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks into 10 Downing Street’s most recent attempt to censor the British press.

Greece's femicide epidemic and sexism in the media:
The phenomenon of femicide in Greece and the detrimental role misogynistic journalism is playing in the way such crimes are reported.

Contributors:
Christina Galanopoulou - Head of social media, LiFO magazine
Zina Koutselini - TV host, Star Channel
Anastasia Giamali - Journalist, Kontra Channel
Natassa Kefallinou - Head of communications, Diotima

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Donald Trump had the Big Lie. Now, investigators in Congress are televising what they hope might be the Big Truth. Will these made-for-TV hearings break through to enough of the American public?

Contributors:
Alex Shephard - Staff writer, New Republic
Molly Jong-Fast - Contributing writer, The Atlantic
Angelo Carusone - President & CEO, Media Matters for America
Hugo Lowell - Congressional reporter, The Guardian

On our radar:
The Kremlin’s propagandists have a few friends in Italian TV; Producer Tariq Nafi explains how they are making the most of it.

Hollywood’s latest role, the cultural consultant:
There is a new part in Hollywood - the cultural consultant - looking to make the industry more politically correct.

Contributors:
Anamik Saha - Communications and cultural studies lecturer, Goldsmiths
Raeshem Nijhon - Co-founder, Culture House
Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo - Cultural consultant, ‘Encanto’

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An international backlash from more than 15 Muslim-majority countries is rattling India’s ruling BJP – and it all started with one comment on a news talk show.

Contributors:
Suhasini Haidar – Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu
Nikhil Mehra – Lawyer
Pratik Sinha – Co-founder, Alt News
Hartosh Singh Bal – Political Editor, Caravan Magazine

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The investigation into the 2021 storming of the US Capitol hits prime time TV. Producer Flo Phillips asks, do enough Americans care?

Big Oil Propaganda: From Advertorials to Instagram
There’s a global energy crisis – but it’s not the gas shortages, it’s the pollution and propaganda by Big Oil.

Contributors:
Molly Taft – Staff writer, Earther/Gizmodo
Amy Westervelt – Founder, Critical Frequency Podcast Network & Investigative Journalist
Geoffrey Supran – Research fellow, Harvard University

On this special edition of The Listening Post, a timeline of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a chronology of our reports - from the build-up, to the invasion, right through the messaging and the media’s news coverage, from around the world.

Contributors:
Max Seddon - Moscow bureau chief, Financial Times
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - News director & host, Dozhd
Terrell Starr - Host, Black Diplomats podcast
Bryan MacDonald - Former journalist, RT
Adam Tooze - Professor of history, Columbia University
Alexey Kovalyov - Investigative editor, Meduza
Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin
HA Hellyer - Scholar, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Natalia Antelava - Editor-in-chief, Coda Story
Vera Tolz - Professor of Russian studies, University of Manchester
Maria Avdeeva - Disinformation researcher
Melinda Haring - Deputy director of the Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
James Rodgers - Author, Assignment Moscow
Aglaya Snetkov - Lecturer in the international politics of Russia, UCL

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is out, the outcome also amounts to a rejection of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp - which backed Morrison and ridiculed candidates demanding action on the climate. Murdoch’s used to setting the political agenda down under. No longer.

Contributors:
Sally Rugg - National director, Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission
Richie Merzian - Director, Climate and Energy Program, The Australia Institute
Malcolm Farr - Political journalist
Michael Mazengarb - Climate & energy reporter, Renew Economy

On our radar:
Al Jazeera’s journalism is being suppressed on YouTube. The Listening Post’s digital producer, Stanley Kasirowore, talks us through the reasons why.

Germany, anti-Semitism and the blacklisting of Palestinian journalists:
Germany's toxic anti-Semitism and the effect it is having on the careers of Palestinian and Arab journalists there.

Contributors:
Alena Jabarine - Journalist
Hanno Hauenstein - Journalist, Berliner Zeitung
Susan Neiman - Director, Einstein Forum

Israel’s denial and disinformation surrounding the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh came as no surprise to Palestinians familiar with the Israeli playbook - the one it uses to deflect, delay and avoid accountability. It has the effect of muddying the waters, obscuring what, to those on the ground, is crystal clear: that Israel systematically targets Palestinian journalists for doing their jobs.

Contributors:
Shourideh Molavi - Palestine-Israel researcher, Forensic Architecture
Omar Shakir - Israel and Palestine director, Human Rights Watch
Joshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish Currents

On our radar:
Elon Musk is one of the richest men on earth, and his attempted $44bn buyout of Twitter has sparked widespread interest. Producer Nicholas Muirhead looks into the various twists and turns of the deal since Musk first started tweeting about it last month.

Zelenskyy’s penchant for PR:
Since Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, the information war has not gone the Kremlin’s way. Producer Johanna Hoes examines how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has captivated audiences and won friends abroad, in a way Vladimir Putin never could. But is Putin even worried about all the clicks, likes and support Zelenskyy is getting online?

Contributors:
James Rodgers - Lecturer, City University and author, Assignment Moscow
Aglaya Snetkov - Lecturer in international politics of Russia, University College London
Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin
Melinda Haring - Deputy Director of Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council

Impunity in the holy land. Will Israel be held to account for killing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh?

Contributor:
Diana Buttu - Human rights lawyer and former adviser, Palestine Liberation Organization

On our radar:
Has the tide turned in Sri Lanka? Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at how media outlets in the country are changing their tune on the Rajapaksa government.

Russian media mercenaries:
The Russian mercenaries and misinformation messing with politics in Africa.

Contributors:
Cayley Clifford - South African Institute of International Affairs
Benjamin Roger - Journalist, Jeune Afrique
Séga Diarrah - Media owner, Maliactu

Nostalgia for the days of dictatorship; Filipinos go to the polls as journalists prepare for life post-Duterte.

Contributors:
Marichu Lambino - Professor, University of the Philippines
Camille Elemia - Journalist
Jonathan Corpus Ong - University of Massachusetts Amherst & Disinformation Researcher, Harvard University
Rachel Khan - Co-ordinator, Tsek.ph

On our radar:
Judgment Day is coming for the United States’ abortion law. Producer Flo Phillips looks at the sneak preview of the decision leaked to the press - and how the press has reacted.

Parodying Politics: Taiwan's Satirists:
China versus Taiwan. A geopolitical mismatch that satirists are making the most of.

Contributors:
Chen Tzu-chien - Host & Creator, EYECTV
Kylie Wang - Co-host, Bailingguo News
Tai Yu-hui - Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Elon Musk is closing in on buying Twitter for $44bn, taking control of a platform where everyone seems angry about something. It is not yet clear if the billionaire knows just what he is getting into.

Contributors:
Rasha Abdul-Rahim - Director, Amnesty Tech
Abe Brown - Senior editor, Forbes
Evan Greer - Director, Fight for the Future
Edward Ongweso Jr - Staff writer, Motherboard
Shadma Shaikh - Co-founder, FactorDaily

On our radar:
Amateur hour: The Kremlin accuses its adversaries of plotting to kill a Russian journalist but the evidence does not add up. Producer Johanna Hoes on Putin’s bizarre allegations.

Mexican journalism - a fight to the death:
Journalism, on the run. Mexico, its culture of violence against reporters who are killed, with impunity.

Contributors:
Andrés Manuel López Obrador - President of Mexico
Reyna Haydee Ramírez - Journalist & co-founder, Red Sonora de Periodistas
Ana Cristina Ruelas - Former director, Article 19, Mexico and Central America & Researcher, El Colegio de México A C Seminar on Violence and Peace

In the weeks since Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was removed from government, he has been conducting an aggressive campaign - on the ground and online - to get himself back into office. And it has put the country’s media outlets in a difficult position, especially when reporters remain beholden to who really runs the country: the military.

Contributors:
Amber Shamsi - Director, Centre for Excellence in Journalism
Hamid Mir - Host, Geo News
Asad Ali Toor - Founder and host, Asad Toor Uncensored
Rabia Mehmood - Co-founder and host, Naya Daur Media

On our radar:
The hatred and violence against Muslims in India are getting worse. Producer Tariq Nafi explains how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence says more than words ever could.

Digital oppression in Bangladesh:
Bangladesh - where the government uses lawfare against journalists and voices of dissent.

Contributors:
Zyma Islam - Reporter, The Daily Star
Jyotirmoy Barua - Lawyer
Kanak Sarwar - Journalist and YouTuber
Anisul Huq - Bangladesh's minister for law, justice and parliamentary affairs

Over the course of the French presidential election campaign, roughly one-third of voters have said they will back a candidate from the far right - either Marine Le Pen, who President Emmanuel Macron defeated in 2017, or Eric Zemmour, a former journalist with multiple convictions for hate speech.

Zemmour owes much of his prominence to a news channel owned by media tycoon Vincent Bollore, whose influence increases with each news outlet he takes over.

As France goes to the polls, we examine the structural flaws and societal dangers of a media sector dominated by billionaires.

Contributors:
Jean-Baptiste Rivoire - Author of ‘The Elysée and the Oligarchs vs the News’, former investigative journalist at Canal+ and founder of Off Investigation
Pascale Clark - Former presenter at Europe 1 and journalist at France 5
Alain Duhamel - Political commentator at BFMTV
Nadiya Lazzouni - Presenter at Le Média
Daniel Schneidermann - Founder of Arrêt sur Images and columnist at Libération

Hate Unmasked: The reporters tracking France’s far right:
Journalists at independent and local media outlets have been behind some of the biggest exposés of France’s growing far-right networks. The editor of an investigative website and a reporter for a regional daily relate their experiences of exposing violent right-wing groups - and the dangers that come with the territory.

Contributors:
Mathieu Molard - Editor-in-Chief of StreetPress
Josué Jean-Bart - Reporter at Ouest-France

A new front opened up in the war in Ukraine this past week - a diplomatic one. Talk of peace, amid acts of war. And actions, on the battlefields of Ukraine, speak louder than words do, in Istanbul.

Contributors:
Eilish Hart - Senior news editor, Meduza English
Ilya Yablokov - Lecturer in journalism and digital media, University of Sheffield
Katia Patin - Multimedia editor, Coda Story
Tikhon Dzyadko - Editor-in-chief, TV Dozhd

On our radar:
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has ordered some of his forces into Ukraine, but it seems more like a PR stunt. Producer Tariq Nafi explains how the Chechen forces are being utilised in the propaganda war.

Fanpage: Changing the Face(book) of Italy’s media landscape
From Facebook, into the mainstream - the news outlets transforming Italy’s media one platform at a time.

Contributors:
Francesco Cancellato - Editor-in-chief, Fanpage
Alessio Cornia - Assistant professor, Dublin City University & Research Associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Serena Danna - Deputy editor, Open
Gaia Martignetti - Video reporter, Fanpage

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on, the Ukrainians are responding with a digitally armed resistance led by their president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Contributors:
Veronika Melkozerova - Executive editor, the New Voice of Ukraine
Maria Avdeeva - Disinformation researcher
Natalia Antelava - Editor-in-chief, Coda Story
Bohdan Nahaylo - Chief editor, Kyiv Post

On our radar:
When the British royal family visits former colonies or countries in the Commonwealth, the idea is to cement ties, generate some positive headlines. But as producer Meenakshi Ravi explains, the latest royal tour of the Caribbean is not going as planned.

Defectors turned Vloggers: North Korean YouTube Stars:
The Listening Post’s Johanna Hoes, from Seoul, on the North Korean YouTubers showing a different side of a country we know too little about.

Contributors:
Pak Yusung - North Korean defector & YouTuber, ‘North Korean Man Like a Feather’
Kum Young Choi - North Korean defector & YouTuber ‘Aoji Unni’
Sokeel Park - South Korea country director, Liberty in North Korea
Kyong Yoon - Professor of Cultural Studies, University of British Columbia

Demonising not just Vladimir Putin, but Russians in general, is ridding media in the United States of context that is pertinent to the coverage of Ukraine. Not only is the context missing, but it is being stifled in some cases of American coverage.

Contributors:
Molly Jong-Fast - Contributor, The Atlantic
Alex Shephard - Staff writer, The New Republic
David Klion - Writer and editor, Jewish Currents
Abby Martin - Journalist; creator, The Empire Files

On our radar:
Despite the Kremlin’s determination to control the narrative on Ukraine, state-controlled reporting in Russia is taking a hit. Producer Johanna Hoes looks at the stream of resignations from some of Russia’s top broadcasters.

Destination Damascus: Social media tourism arrives in Syria
As travel content out of Syria draws millions of hits online, some Syrians raise concerns about its potential PR benefit for the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Contributors:
Paul Nabil Matthis - Syrian-American author; TikTok content creator
Sarah Hunaidi - Exiled Syrian writer; communications and advocacy consultant
Davud Akhundzada - Travel content creator

Russia is experiencing a Stalinesque crackdown on reporting that smacks of the Soviet era; the mere mention of the word “war” in relation to Ukraine can now land journalists in prison for up to 15 years.

Contributors:
Michael Nacke - Journalist & vlogger
Jason Corcoran - Journalist
Vera Tolz - Professor of Russian Studies, the University of Manchester
Natalia Antelava - Editor-in-chief, codastory.com

On our radar:
While many countries have spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine, one of Russia’s main trading partners, China, has remained officially neutral. However, as producer Flo Phillips details, the media output coming from China tells a different story.

Dozhd’s demise:
Is this the final chapter in the story of Dozhd, Russia’s sole remaining independent TV channel?

Contributor:
Ekaterina Kotrikadze - News director & host, Dozhd

Between the misinformation coming out of Moscow, the NATO expansion angle that gets underplayed in Western media, Ukraine's messaging spearheaded by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the larger battle for hearts and minds - a lot is happening in the media war over Ukraine.

Contributors:
Alexey Kovalyov - Investigative editor, Meduza
Eoin Higgins - Host, The Flashpoint podcast
Branko Marcetic - Staff writer, Jacobin
Anton Barbashin - Editorial director, Riddle Russia

On our radar:
From the formation of a volunteer cyber army to funding initiatives, Ukrainian media outlets are pushing back against Russian misinformation with their own coverage of the war. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks at the surge of activity since the invasion.

Racism and double standards: H A Hellyer on the bias in reporting:
The framing and terminology used to talk about Ukrainian refugees have exposed the double standards in the reporting of refugee stories. H A Hellyer, a career academic in the study of Europe’s treatment of ethnic minorities, talks us through some of the biases.

Contributor:
H A Hellyer - Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace & fellow, Cambridge University

As news of Russia's invasion of Ukraine floods the airwaves, and with the prospect of a wider conflict brewing in Eastern Europe between Russia and the NATO alliance, we are dispensing with our usual format.

On our radar:
Richard Gizbert starts with a roundup of the global narratives competing for air time in the days running up to the Russian invasion, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s media moment. Producer Johanna Hoes then takes us through Russia’s side of the story, highlighting some examples of misinformation coming out of Moscow.

Russia: National myths and rewriting history
The conflict currently playing out in Ukraine involves former Cold War adversaries and competing versions of history. This week, before invading Ukraine, the Russian president questioned the very idea of the country's statehood. The Listening Post’s Tariq Nafi reports from Moscow on a new historical discourse that emphasises Russia’s history as a great power and mythologises the country’s past.

Contributors:
Nikita Petrov  - Historian & member, Memorial
Yevgenia Albats - Journalist & editor-in-chief, The New Times
Mikhail Myagkov - Scientific director, the Russian Military-Historical Society

India: The emboldening of anti-Muslim messaging
One political leader who may be grateful that the eyes of the news world are trained on Ukraine would be India’s Narendra Modi. With elections either under way or looming in some key states, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) keeps playing its Hindu nationalist, anti-Muslim card.

Contributors:
Rana Ayyub - Global opinions columnist, The Washington Post & author, Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
Supriya Sharma - Executive editor, Scroll.in
Aakar Patel - Author, Price of the Modi Years
Fatima Khan -  Reporter, The Quint