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The BBC vs Gary Lineker: An own goal? | The Listening Post
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 doubl…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Could Dominion’s billion dollar lawsuit break Fox News? | The Listening Post
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 "sm…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Hate speech and pogroms in the West Bank | The Listening Post
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.…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Will the force be with him? Obi shakes up Nigeria’s election | The Listening Post
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 stat…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Why Peru’s protestors are sick of big media | The Listening Post
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 p…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The occupation of Palestine intensifies | The Listening Post
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 …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Why India banned the BBC’s Modi documentary | The Listening Post
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…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
How deep are Twitter's ties with US security agencies? | The Listening Post
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 sup…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
How Bolsonaro orchestrated the riots in Brazil | The Listening Post
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.
L…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Russia-Ukraine: The Media Front Line | The Listening Post
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 …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago