Heavily militarized greens. Im more than 125 people have been injured. Supporters of shack, heart materials father are protesting against the nomination of ahmed as danny, as Prime Minister to sophia, and offer them galati. I call them all to remain calm, patient and rational, and not to be dragged into confrontation. So i called on citizens not to crush what Security Forces in europe and to respect the state institutions. We should all Work Together to stop. Those were exhilarating. The strike ma, Everybody Knows the fire of sedition would burn us all was so. Ukraines present rosemary zalinski has called on the un an International Committee of the red cross to take action over an attack on a prison complex, in all a new cup in which dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war were killed. The red cross as its requested access to the prison to help evacuate survivors and help the wounded. Since the attack on friday, russian and ukrainian officials of accused each other of striking the prison in that the separatist held dumbass regional, easton ukraine. Oh, shabba fight is of attack to military base on the somali ethiopia border, the arm boot, which is linked to al qaeda, says its kill more than 100. 00 ethiopian troops. But the Ethiopian Government is saying it soldiers killed more than a 150 fighters who tried to infiltrate the base. Ill ship up controls large parts of somali ernest long sought to establish a base. And if the opium over 400 migrants in refugees of disembark from the and joe ship see, watch in toronto, italy ship rescued the people from the mediterranean last week in 4 separate occasions. Its been in search of a safe port to dock in for days. This in temperatures of over 40 degrees celsius and spain as reported. Its 2nd monkey pox related death in the past 2 days. They are the 1st confirmed monkey pox deaths in the European Union. The global monkey pox outbreak is in more than 21000 cases in nearly 80 countries since may. So those are the headlines the south. The listening post is coming up next with richard gus. But looking at the case against Julian Assange, ah, a Julian Assange is still in the legal fight of his life, and there are geo political angles aplenty. In this story, blacklisting journalists, it doesnt light the zalinski government. Censorship can be kremlin. S, and with misinformation and propaganda swirling across social media, kenya gets ready to vote. Ah, hello Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post where we dont cover the news. We cover the way the news is covered. We start with the journalist currently locked in a maximum security prison in london without having been tried for any crime. Julian assange, the founder of wiki weeks, is currently in legal purgatory. Last month, the u. K. Government formerly approved his expedition to the us, where he is wanted for publishing classified documents that exposed among other things american war crimes. The u. K is high court now decides whether to allow assange to appeal against an extradition that press Freedom Group say would put journalists everywhere at risk. The american pursuit of assange is far more than a question of law. Its about geo politics. U. S. Allies like sweden, the u. K and australia. Have all assisted washington on this. Support for assange has been growing and australia, his birthplace now has a Prime Minister who, while in opposition wanted him released. Has Anthony Albanese changed his to and if he hasnt, will it make a difference . Our starting point this week is wiki leeks, the work a sanchez News Organization did that landed him in jail. Ah, its easy to get buried in the be galleries of the case against juliet, the jurisdictional questions, the extradition law, the accusations of a legal hacking and espionage what can get lost is the journalism assange and wiki leaks produced starting in the mid to thousands that new south left around the world went to town, including what we learned about american wars in afghanistan, and then iraq. What they couldnt tolerate was when julian assigned will send video footage of all of them on which showed an apache helicopter, in bulk of killings, to leave ordinary people. That is the principal rece, the exposure of war crimes that caused outrage, especially in the intelligence agencies of the United States. And then in 2010, there was a huge case. Im United States diplomatic cables. There were some quite frank assessments of foreign leaders with wiki leaks revealing a directly from clench and for us, diplomats at the United Nations to spy on their counterparts that perhaps were not considered in the best traditions of diplomacy, shall we say. And those cables also are to some extent help spock the arab spring, starting with nicea when and diplomatic cable chart that ruling family was corrupt and triggered the protest, i went to that governments down for i saw a sanction, and wikileaks have had a tremendous impact on the well, especially those early as ah, the irregularities and flaws in the legal case. The video evidence, the u. S. Acquired illegally when assange was at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. A key witness for the prosecution, a hacker who turned out to be a convicted peta file who later admitted his testimony was made up. The assurances the americans have made and the british have accepted that assange will get a fair trial. When the u. S. Has not even denied reports that its officials discussed assassinating him in 2017. None of that has really changed. What has changed is that austria as a new Prime Minister anthony alba. Nice. The question for assange, who was born in australia is which Anthony Alban easy . Are we talking about the Opposition Leader . Who said this during the Election Campaign about assange and his most famous source . Chelsea manny that enough is enough. The person, it was actually late. The classified information to wiki likes is pray that the person had published that information remains in giles or Prime Minister albanese who. When asked if his government will press the u. S. To drop the charges. Now says diplomacy is best conducted in private. Discreetly can we imagine if iran or north korea imprisoned in australian, would the israeli Prime Minister be content with just talking behind the scenes and quietly lobbying, or would he make more of a public Pressure Campaign . And we have to remember than the us as an ally, that the pendulum australia, for some of its strategic goals in the pacific. Ah, its an ally that was fairly as done, favors for it. But perhaps albanese is not willing to spend the political capital. He has on helping us out. The reason that no Australian Government has dead travelling of the extradition of such is the theyre now locked in with the United States, just like burton on every level on defense, an ideal entry. What makes them different from britain is that their main economic deeds are we trying us, but they are ideologically and via big uniting factor unfortunately is race. This is largely still a white country by white dependency if utilize and for that reason they will not break with the United States. We compare australia and its governments public reticence. On the Julian Assange case to another american ally, mexico, whose president says if assange is extradited to the us, where he could die in custody, america may as well dismantle the statue of liberty is to lee a far more mm. Dekessa lay in today. There is brazil where Opposition Leader and current favorite to return to the president s office lula da silva, calls assange, a champion in the cause of freedom. Get kitty west so she wont be too cream if you dont vote for that. That the wiki leaks founder has far more Political Support in latin america than in countries to the north. Germany, for example, where theyve built statues of assange and where i stood guard and geo awarded him a peace prize in 2020 more than 70 members of parliament have demanded his release. But the government, led by chancellor olaf schultz, is content to leave the matter to his allies in the us and the u. K. So asked the german chances office for their position on the julian his ost case. And i replied statement, and im wanting quite the federal government has full confidence in the rule of law of the british judiciary, and therefore refrains from making any further statements on the ongoing proceedings. The German Government called act, they had to skate to do it because they had bought an fossil of this bowl made tow e complex. And in germany there is more support for him. Why . Because germans have been told that things like arresting, generally extradited them to a likely depth of things that used to happen either under hitler on these German Government. We dont behave like that. Its almost important ally apart from the European Union on the u. K. And we are at the moment in a situation where we are in the war with russia. So we need to be nice. Our government thinks it needs the mastic natural break, remind all the support so that kind of julian source and to fight against expedition important and happening. I dont think it will change the case vicious, very fast because we are sacrificing all venue. Thats what were seeing in america, the u. K. Germany and from so many other governments in canada, france, italy, just to name a few values, sacrificed alliances, preserves and precedent, dangerous ones or journalism about 2 percent very strongly agreed amongst lawyers and researchers as well as journalists and Civil Liberties campaign or that the terrible press what he did is, as many journalist pointed out, no different to what journalists and publishers do every day. So it is basically criminalizing journalism. There is a very real danger that the said such as the prison for the us to be able to wield this very extreme power of being able to pluck a journalist out from the country and send to jail in their own waters. But also the other countries. Now looking at this example, well say, well, hold on, if the United States can do this, why kind of week . China is rising power. Imagine now if china is able to say, well, were going to do the same thing because we dont like what some of these american or british, strangely, and journalists are publishing about whats going on in our country. So saying that us officials would do well to contemplate political propaganda can be clumsy and russian tactics in ukraine are well documented. But 2 can play that game. And joanna, whos is here with the details, we have to go back to march 2021 roughly a year before the war started president floating, theres a lensky, establish the Ukrainian Center for countering this information to curb. What he described as propaganda and destructive information from moscow. Through these months of war, the center has been compiling a list of individuals that get deemed to be promoting narrative consonant with russian propaganda. That list includes politicians from around the world, from ram pool in the u. S. To marine the pen and our exam were in france to robert fico in slovakia. Their alleged crime public statements that appeared to sign with a kremlin. Beyond politicians, there are academics and journalists, military analysts, like edward let work, an american who suggested that the donuts and lu hunks regions should hold referendums to determine their futures. Political science scholar John Mearsheimer name is there as well for arguing that natos expansion provoked russia. American journalist, glen greenwald, it was on the list for quote, scare mongering, called it standard mccarthy and idiocy and defended his right to be critical of a proxy war between the worlds 2 Largest Nuclear powers. Look what we did, that key of enemy less needs. Quote, some serious scrutiny, rejecting his pro crumbling label and re its rating. The fact that he has personally lobbied for nato countries percent more weapons to ukraine. Exactly. What key of hopes to achieve with this list is unclear. Some of the arguments theyve taken issue with, like questioning natos expansion, have been made by numerous analyst em reporters, including us here at the listening post. By blacklisting people for that sort of thing. Theyre copying a tactic straight out of russia censorship playbook. Thanks joe. Kenya is about to go to the polls with its president ial election on august 9th, who, who can the data cannot run again because of term limits and 2 familiar figures are vying to succeed him. The Deputy President william, brutal and rylon ow dinner and opposition figure taking his 5th run at the top job. Social media is where most canyons go to keep track of development. Its a place where politicians are paying influencers and small armies of bloggers to get the word out to play the fear card, raise the specter of ethnic tensions and Political Violence if thats what it takes to get votes. Kenyon, politicians used to rely on some questionable western Communications Firms to run their social media, produce their propaganda and spread misinformation. Now they have new sources of media expertise available domestically to do that. But listening posts, ryan coles, now on canyon influencers for hire. And the misinformation running rampant in this Election Campaign usually begins with a simple whats up message. A political operative delivers an assignment to a social media influence or for hire the jobs very. But the ask is always the same. Make this content go viral. We spoke with a kenyan influencer who insisted he had to remain anonymous. The person you see here is an actor. During our interview, the influence are revealed some secrets about an industry that as kenya, gears up for a general election has grown in size and impact. So tell me about your operation. Whats the size of your team . How does the process work . My team is sometimes just 30 people and can grow up to 100. Im the point of contact with the client, and i let me know about assignments through whats up group chat. We then use facebook and twitter to push political messages. How much do your Services Cost . It depends on the task, but it ranges from 50000. 00 shillings to 1000000. 00 shillings. Thats like it 1500. 00 us dollars. Can you give me an example . Not something your team has made go viral. Im not going to answer that because then youd know who my client is. Okay, but in general terms, how would you describe the content you help spread for politicians . Look, my team is ethical. We are very careful with what we push. We mainly share content that promote the politicians track record, or if down you promises for the people. Have you ever agreed though to attack your clients competitor or spread negative information . Yes, it happens for all the assertions that the work is above board. This influencer does not advertise his services. And secrecy is paramount. Is to become part of the report of being a big honcho politician to hold, to have a certain amount of influence or a blog as other people that can quickly whip up a type in sentiment about you online. It is done in secret because some times, some of the stuff that these people put out again, falls into incitement. And a lot of it is feed into manipulative content and much of the time they also violated the terms of service. Of many of the platforms in which they engage propaganda is, is a budget item. When it comes to politics, you have to have budget for propaganda. You have to have budget for if it isnt, its really under communication. But we know what communication means in, in politics. We know what that means. Like thats the name of the game. Its propaganda. Jones is a minimum that a loading can win 2022 general election influencers or you pick with the selection are utilized by virtually all kenyan politician. Their primary targets are leading candidates, william root ho with current Deputy President and, and riley. During the former Prime Minister, much of the misinformation, features run of the mill fate cree Photoshop Campaign rallies, fake endorsement, or dr. Academic qualifications. However, the post often via into darker territory, and a lot of them live on tick tock. This is an application that did not exist 5 years ago when were having our lessons in 2017. But suddenly it has become very popular with the younger demographics. Much of the content that we had to view was teetering on the edge of promoting his speech and incitement to violence. Using other language which we know has been used a lot during genocide, seems like my door door, which is a very lead in town in the can in political context. Yeah. You would be you could talk my door door. My do i do come or if we what do you, what do you see . What to do was to money not to come to could yeah to, to talk. My daughter is that my dad do, i just means its almost like like themes or something. And so when you mentioned that what youre trying to do is bring up table tension. What youre trying to do is be traumatized. Can we were thrown deep into the selection violin and those wounds that still very fresh. They will continue to do the reviews that look like, you know, horrible. Seek, you know, end of the day. That recipe for online success may have been imported. Take this video, it paints a devastating future for kenya. If william router wins the election, its slickly produce, but is a direct rip off scene for scene of a video president kinyata campaign put out in 2017. The target was riley dingo, who was campaigning for office back then as well. The video was put together by harris media, a texas based Marketing Agency made infamous bias political work around the world. They and other companies, like the notorious british consulting firm, cambridge analytics, worked on 2 of kenyata president ial campaign. Those Companies Might not be involved with the candidates in the 2022 elections, but the methods they employed are still in play. They are denture still pretty much in their room. A lot of the tactics that we saw activity to coverage analytic and the other 2 companies are still very much being used within our political sphere, especially on social media platforms. So i look at Something Like the real rayleigh campaign, which i think we had never really seen before. That was sort of trying to paint this picture of de opposition as this sort of boogeyman that needed to be feared. The use of very emotive campaigning characteristics within the Campaign Messaging and the very specific use of platforms to try and disseminate this content into the public consciousness. Its nearly impossible to pinpoint the origins of this content or the number of players involved and with so few influences willing to speak on the record. Much of this process remains in the shadows. So we took our question straight to the digital strategist of the 2 leading candidates, william rudo and riley dinner. Mr. Tony, thanks for speaking with me. Can you clarify, has the right loading campaign, hired influencers to amplify their message . This election might be off, for instance, the people who dont believe in this message. So youre saying you dont hire influencers in secret to attack mr thing as opponents or spread propaganda about his main rival william rto. No live that can have a lot. Ready c t christy to mean fact that we dont have to engage it. I spoke with the Dinner Campaign and they say you guys on the router side, what you call the can you kwanza campaign, edit videos and higher influencers to spread propaganda . Is that true . We have not, i am actually in the campaign to do that manipulation given me at the top of the campaign, im not hired by the company. Im a volunteer to the company. So any other seeing that to see the campaign of hired people then would be, would be missing formation by itself. Do you know whether the dingo Campaign Hires influencers to spread negative messaging about router . I mean, when you see 40 people sharing exactly that same message, then those are definitely people or not. So it is money and dimensions on the other side of the company. Accountability is lacking in kenya. Some steps have been taken by platforms like tick tock and twitter to delete harmful information or suspend accounts, but it hasnt been nearly enough to stop the problem. The main Governmental Agency responsible for doing something is called the n c. I see they released the list of bad words on social media including madeau a door, but were widely ignored. Theyve even brought influencers to court for heat speech, but kenyans have yet to see a prosecution. The government could be really doing things, but we dont get to know what they do because theres always an information gap that they active cases on his speech in court, but the people who have actually been arrested on his speech. But this case is a really not highlighted. So the resulting effects is i think the government is doing anything and i think what we need and whats my act would be to the government is to make an example out of a case where we actually see that we actually see them being prosecuted. I think the reason we have poor accountability when it comes to this type of thing is because we have a very weak institution. The n c a t could be one of those entities where we are seeing very clear examples of violation of 2nd laws. But nothing is essentially happening to the people that break those laws. Yeah, theyre not strong, independent confusions that are going to go beyond that overload within the government and thats a problem. And finally, the pope has just completed what the vatican calls a pilgrimage of penance to canada. Pope francis started out west with an official and long overdue apology to indigenous communities for the horrors and violence inflicted by the catholic church, particularly at schools run by priests and nuns. Indigenous children suffered physical and sexual abuse punishment for speaking their mother tongue. Hundreds of them disappeared, buried in graves only recently discovered the investigations or ongoing. There will be more news to come. Here are some recommendations on where to go online to find a p t and national news. 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