Netanyahu's fight to own the election narrative | The Listening Post
With elections one month away, the media discourse in Israel has narrowed in on one question about one man: What did Benjamin Netanyahu know...
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The media battle behind Brazil’s election | The Listening Post
As Brazilians head into national elections, there’s a familiar name on the ballot: Bolsonaro. Not former President Jair Bolsonaro. It’s his...
The media battle behind Brazil's election | The Listening Post
As Brazilians head into national elections, there’s a familiar name on the ballot: Bolsonaro. Not former President Jair Bolsonaro. It’s his...
The media battle behind Brazil’s election | The Listening Post
As Brazilians head into national elections, there’s a familiar name on the ballot: Bolsonaro. Not former President Jair Bolsonaro. It’s his...
Doomsday AI: panic, regulation and the China fear | The Listening Post
AI’s existential threat to humanity is dominating headlines across the globe. But with so much attention on the fear of a future AI apocalyp...
Selling the war: Purges, polygraphs and propaganda | The Listening Post
With the US midterm elections just weeks away, Donald Trump’s administration is trying to put a positive spin on a war with Iran that shows...
How the media manufactured consent for genocide | The Listening Post
Assal Rad built a reputation on social media as the “headline fixer” for her work correcting journalistic sins at major news outlets. The hi...
Trump’s war loop: Escalate, retreat, repeat | The Listening Post
For decades, much of the United States media adopted Washington’s framing of US conflicts in the Middle East. But the US-Israel war against...
Israel's Image Crisis: Becoming Too Big to Spin?
As criticism of Israel mounts over its wars on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, along with the escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank,...
Iran's Infowar: Lego, AI and ever tightening control | The Listening Post
The information front has been central to the Iranian government’s war effort. For an external audience, there is an innovative online strat...
Hormuz: Spin in the Strait | The Listening Post
A fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran holds - but the information war intensifies. At the centre: the Strait of Hormuz, where competin...
War spirals as information control tightens | The Listening Post
The war on Iran has entered a much more damaging phase with more assassinations of the leadership in Tehran, the continued blockade of the S...
“A war in search of a strategy” - Trump-Netanyahu's war with Iran | The Listening Post
One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradi...
Trump, Iran and geopolitical mind games | The Listening Post
As Washington escalates threats of military action against Iran, negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme continue behind the scenes. Bu...
The AI alarm cycle: Lots of talk, little action | The Listening Post
A series of warnings from artificial intelligence (AI) industry insiders shows how the debate around AI drives extreme news cycles, swinging...
The Epstein files cover-up: Botched or calculated? | The Listening Post
The latest tranche of the Epstein files contains more than three million documents - the largest release of its kind. In what appears to be...
The anatomy of the Epstein network | The Listening Post
The Epstein files dump has led to days of intense media coverage, revealing how powerful elites around the world engaged in either illegal o...
Has the Trump administration overplayed its spin? | The Listening Post
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the fatal shooting of a protester by border control agents triggered mass demonstrations and presented the Trump...
Trump’s obsession with Greenland | The Listening Post
Donald Trump’s latest attempt to seize Greenland shows that the president is willing to use US force to determine international borders, eve...
Iran: The protests, the blackout and the narrative war
This past week, Iranian protesters were labelled “terrorists” and “saboteurs” by the state. That rhetoric was accompanied by an internet bla...