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Pegasus: Flying on the wings of Israeli ‘cyber-tech diplomacy’? | The Listening Post

Al Jazeera, 31 Jul 2021
A global cyber-surveillance scandal - spyware developed in Israel - has put the government there under the media microscope, and its story does not add up.

Contributors:
Jonathan Klinger - Cyberlaw lawyer
Marc Owen Jones - Assistant professor, Hamid Bin Khalifa University
Omer Benjakub - Tech & Cyber Reporter, Haaretz
Marwa Fatafta - Policy Analyst, Al Shabaka

On our radar:
Tunisia is in political turmoil after the president declared a state of emergency - or what critics are calling a coup. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Flo Phillips about how journalists there are feeling the heat.

Africa’s PR Push: How governments manage the message:
Handling public relations for governments is lucrative work - and for Western PR firms, Africa has emerged as a new hunting ground.

Contributors:
Alex Magaisa - Former adviser, prime minister of Zimbabwe
Alexander Dukalskis - Author, Making the World Safe for Dictatorship
Kathleen Ndongmo - Communications specialist

00:00 Intro
02:23 Pegasus: Israeli ‘cyber-tech diplomacy’?
11:28 Tunisia’s political turmoil
13:46 Africa’s PR Push
24:06 Endnote
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