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Pegasus: How to check for spyware on your phone
Getting access to the list of 50,000 numbers targeted for hacking will take time - but Amnesty Tech have a handy tool so you...
British court ruling heightens danger of Assange extradition to the US
By Oscar Grenfell
12 July 2021
Last week’s ruling by the British High Court allowing prosecutors to appeal an earlier judgment blocking Julian Assange’s extradition, poses...
120 politicians, journalists, and artists sign letter urging Merkel to confront...
Jul 12, 2021
Over a hundred people from German politics, media, and art have called on their chancellor to confront Joe Biden during an upcoming...
A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits...
Jul 1, 2021
As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over...
Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors
After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
By Murtaza Hussain
July 1 2021,
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‘Very complicated matter’: ABC bans term ‘apartheid’ in coverage of Israel/Palestine...
31 May, 2021
Australian Broadcaster ABC has announced that they will not allow the use of the word ‘apartheid’ in their coverage of Israel and...
Oxford secretly used cell phone data to track millions as part...
23 May, 2021
The UK government has admitted it used phone data to analyse people’s movement patterns without their knowledge as part of a vaccination...
Associated Press fires Jewish journalist for pro- Palestine views
An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel
By Eric Ting,
May 20, 2021
Emily Wilder, a journalist...
Israel-Palestine: How social media was used and abused
As ceasefire agreed, tech giants come under spotlight over censorship, disinformation and manipulation concerns from past two weeks
By Rayhan Uddin
21 May 2021
During the recent violence...
Ten years since WikiLeaks and Assange published the Guantánamo Files
By Oscar Grenfell
30 April 2021
Last week marked a decade since WikiLeaks published a tranche of 779 secret files from the US government’s Guantánamo Bay...