Killer Rabbit 90Jan 1, 2025
Trump Escalates War on Press & Some Outlets are "Capitulating Preemptively" to Pressure http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/trump_escalates_war_on_press_some #uspoli #media #FreePress #ViolationOfRights #FreedomOfSpeech #journalsim
Trump Escalates War on Press & Some Outlets Are “Capitulating Preemptively” to Pressure

We speak with The Nation's Chris Lehmann about President-elect Donald Trump's escalating attacks on the press and how major media figures and institutions are “capitulating preemptively” to the pressure. ABC News recently settled a defamation suit brought by Trump by making a $15 million donation to his future presidential library, despite experts saying the case was easily winnable. Trump is also suing The Des Moines Register for publishing a poll before the election that showed him losing to Vice President Kamala Harris. “What’s happening is a very clear pattern in Trump’s public life,” says Lehmann. “This is a show of power.”

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Killer Rabbit 90Jan 1, 2025
"Surveilled": Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/surveilled_ronan_farrow_on_the_spyware #uspoli #CivilRights #Spyware #Pegasus #ViolationOfRights #trump
“Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone

We continue to discuss the new HBO Original film Surveilled and explore the film’s investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O’Neill. We focus on the influence of the Israeli military in the development of some of the most widely used versions of these surveillance technologies, which in many cases are first tested on Palestinians and used to enforce Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and on the potential expansion of domestic U.S. surveillance under a second Trump administration. Ever-increasing surveillance is “dangerous for democracy,” says Farrow. “We’re making and selling a weapon that is largely unregulated.” As O’Neill emphasizes, “We could all be caught up.”

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