The Listening Post

Mass drown­ing of refugees at sea – and the me­dia cov­er­age and pol­i­tics in its wake. Plus, the state of me­dia in Al­ge­ria.

The late Ital­ian politi­cian’s ca­reer was pow­ered by his me­dia might, and he pi­o­neered a brash brand of dem­a­goguery.

As tech boss­es raise the dooms­day alarm, oth­ers say it’s a dis­trac­tion from AI’s real, less sen­sa­tion­al dan­gers.

What the block­buster se­ries Suc­ces­sion tells us about the me­dia world we live in. Plus, In­di­an re­porters un­der pres­sure.

Syr­ia’s pres­i­dent re­turns to Arab League af­ter years of spin and war crimes de­nial. Plus cov­er­ing Ecuador’s nar­co trade.

Er­do­gan’s me­dia pres­ence helps him take a tight­ly fought elec­tion to a run-off. Plus, me­dia and the Sino-Amer­i­ca di­vide.

Is­rael’s sur­veil­lance in Jerusalem, and the se­cre­tive unit re­spon­si­ble for spy­ing on and black­mail­ing Pales­tini­ans.

How Is­rael’s use of AI-pow­ered sur­veil­lance in He­bron has en­trenched the Is­raeli gov­ern­ment’s con­trol over Pales­tini­ans.

Along­side the fight­ing in Su­dan, there’s a bat­tle of nar­ra­tives. Plus, racist rhetoric in Tunisia.

Since Musk took over Twit­ter, it has changed for the worse, from re­in­stat­ing pre­vi­ous­ly banned ac­counts to lay­offs.