The Listening Post

Twitter, the damage that Elon Musk has done to the brand and the journalists who can’t quite quit the platformContributors:Bobby Allyn - technology reporter, NPRMatt Binder - reporter, MashableShirin Ghaffary - senior social media correspondent, VOXAmanda Silberling - senior culture writer, TechCrunchOn 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 VenezuelaLaura Helena Castillo Rodríguez - co-founder, El Bus TVRoberto Deniz  - journalist, Armando.infoVladimir Villegas - host, Vladimir Villegas TVSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ajlisteningpostFind us on Facebook https://www.instagram.com/ajlisteningpostCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#news #twitter #elonmusk #musk #us #politics

Twitter, the damage that Elon Musk has done to the brand and the journalists who can’t quite quit the platformContributors:Bobby Allyn - technology reporter, NPRMatt Binder - reporter, MashableShirin Ghaffary - senior social media correspondent, VOXAmanda Silberling - senior culture writer, TechCrunchOn 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 VenezuelaLaura Helena Castillo Rodríguez - co-founder, El Bus TVRoberto Deniz  - journalist, Armando.infoVladimir Villegas - host, Vladimir Villegas TVSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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 StatecraftAnton Barbashin - Editorial director, RiddleIdrees Ali - National security correspondent, ReutersLucy Birge - Russian media specialist and open-source researcherOn 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 AmericaDumpsta D - Vendor and poet, Street RootsKaren Flemming - Vendor, Street RootsChris Herring - Professor of sociology, UCLANettie Johnson - Vendor and writer, Street RootsDeVon Pouncey - Vendor program director, Street RootsKaia Sand - Executive director, Street RootsSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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, COLMANJoshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish CurrentsDiana Buttu - Lawyer and political activistOren Persico - Writer, The Seventh EyeOn 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 StoryThanasis Koukakis - Financial editor, CNN GreeceStefanos Loukopoulos - Co-founder and director, VouliwatchSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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 MagazineJon Allsop - JournalistJohn Nichols - Co-Author, The Death and Life of American Journalism; national affairs correspondent, The NationJennifer Stromer-Galley - Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse UniversityOn our radar: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 SemanaJournalist - Founder, ConfidencialBianca Jagger - Human rights advocateSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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, LSEWilliam Turvill - Media correspondent, New StatesmanAsh Sarkar - Contributing editor, Novara MediaMartin Bell - Former correspondent, BBC NewsOn our radar: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, FuturismMelissa Heikkilä - Senior reporter, MIT Technology ReviewPranav Dixit - Tech reporter, BuzzFeed NewsSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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 TimesJay Rosen - Associate professor, New York UniversityDavid Folkenflik - Media correspondent, NPRMolly Jong-Fast - Special correspondent, Vanity Fair & host, Fast Politics podcastOn our radar: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, EYECTVKylie Wang - Co-host, Bailingguo NewsYu-hui Tai - Associate professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversitySubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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'TselemIssa Amro - Hebron-based Palestinian activistZiv Stahl - Executive director, Yesh Din; contributor, +974 magazineKhaled Elgindy - Palestinian-Israeli affairs programme, Middle East Institute; author, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to TrumpOn our radar: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 TVAmber Shamsi - Director, The Centre for Excellence in JournalismSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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 FoundationsJoachim MacEbong - Senior analyst, StearsBukola Adebayo - Correspondent, Context NewsroomOn our radar: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+1Lina Kushch - Secretary general, Union of Journalists of UkraineEvgeniy Maloletka - PhotojournalistSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News

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 journalistJonathan Castro - editor, La EncerronaJacqueline Fowks - Peru specialist, Reporters Without BordersCecilia Valenzuela - news editor, CaretasOn 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 satiristJan Rudzik - blogger, Post+ RudzikYuliana Shemetovets -hacktivist, Cyber Partisans CollectiveSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News