Pegasus Project: Malware used against journalists and dissidents | The Listening Post

A global consortium of media outlets blew the lid off a huge surveillance scandal revealing how the hacking tool Pegasus has been used by governments around the world to spy on dissidents and journalists via their mobile phones. Contributors: - Rohini Singh - Reporter, The Wire - Bradley Hope - Co-founder, Project Brazen - Laurent Richard - Founder, Forbidden Stories - Eva Galperin - Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation On our radar: American media outlets have been feasting on a story – the billionaire space race. Richard Gizbert and producer Meenakshi Ravi discuss how the mass of coverage squares alongside another story about the planet that is far more consequential - climate change. Bild's battle for political influence in Germany There is a crucial election coming in Germany, and its biggest tabloid, Bild, is trying to preserve its place at the heart of German politics. Contributors: - Julian Reichelt - Editor-in-chief, Bild - Günter Wallraff - Investigative journalist & author, The Lead - Moritz