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The Latest Breaking News from Gauri Lankesh

Ruto ally says Telegram account was hacked before Kenyan election

Strategist says he noticed ‘increased activity’, after revelations about activities of a disinformation unit

The Guardian - US

Dark arts of politics: how ‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigerian election

Leaked messages show failed plan to discredit Muhammadu Buhari and get Goodluck Jonathan re-elected in 2015

The Guardian - US

Political aides hacked by ‘Team Jorge’ in run-up to Kenyan election

Revelation shows dangers posed by bad actors and paid operatives in democratic systems across Africa

The Guardian - UK

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French broadcaster BFMTV suspends presenter amid disinformation scandal

Rachid M’Barki, one of channel’s longest-serving hosts, suspended during inquiry into news packages linked to ‘Team Jorge’

The Guardian - UK

‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and Airbnb

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

Unit led by Tal Hanan that boasts vast army of bots exposed by undercover reporters and leaked emails

The Guardian - UK

Disinfo black ops: exposing the companies and states spreading false information

‘Story killers’ project brings together 30 news outlets to shine a light on industrial disinformation campaigns

The Guardian - US

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How undercover reporters caught ‘Team Jorge’ disinformation operatives on camera

For more than six months, undercover reporters posed as consultants working on behalf of a businessman who wanted to delay an African election

The Guardian - US

A ‘march to unite India’, led by Congress, reaches half-way mark

The nationwide march on foot, led by India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, has reached its 80th day.

Al Jazeera

Is Bharat Jodo Yatra meant to rebrand Rahul Gandhi?

After walking and talking with him for a few minutes, a young girl plants a kiss on Rahul Gandhi’s hand. She then disappears into the crowd, many of whom push to pull off what she just had: score a meeting with the Congress leader.

Newslaundry

Criminal defamation: Problems and precedents of a provision used commonly against the press

Earlier this week, the Delhi police searched the Wire’s office and the homes of its five staffers, days after BJP leader Amit Malviya accused the portal of maligning his and his party’s reputation through a criminal conspiracy, cheating and forged documents.

Newslaundry

Bharat Jodo Yatra completes 30 days on the road

In BJP-governed Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi walks with the late Guari Lankesh’s mother and sister, champions ‘true spirit of India’

The Hindu

Mother, sister of Gauri Lankesh join Rahul in Bharat Jodo Yatra

Bharat Jodo Yatra has covered hundreds of kilometres across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka so far

The Hindu

Films on Ravish Kumar and Gauri Lankesh win awards at Toronto film festival

Two documentaries on Indian journalists have won awards at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022. While We Watched is on the life and work of NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar; Gauri looks at the life and assassination of Gauri Lankesh and the threats faced by Indian journalists today.

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The Hindu

We are like a plane flying backwards, says Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy, writer and activist delivered the Gauri Lankesh Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru

The Hindu

Gauri Memorial Lecture to be held in Bengaluru on September 5

The memorial lecture has been organised on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the assassination of journalist Gauri Lankesh

The Hindu

Gauri Lankesh and the fight for freedom of expression

It has been five years since assailants killed editor-activist Gauri Lankesh at her residence in Ben

The Hindu

Media freedom in peril in India, says Satheesan

‘Intolerance to journalists clearly visible in Kerala too’

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The Hindu

Stamp out this hate speech manufacturing network

The online trolling of the judiciary is a new low, highlighting a sustained and organised campaign of intimidation

The Hindu

Police inaction over multiple death threats baffles writers

A person identifying as ‘Sahishnu Hindu’ has written at least 19 threat letters to seven writers

The Hindu

Gauri Lankesh murder trial: Next hearing from August 8

First week of the trial saw the slain journalist-activist’s sister Kavita Lankesh depose

The Times of India

Gauri Lankesh case: Bengaluru gun store staffer says accused bought air gun

BENGALURU: A gun store employee on Tuesday told a city court that one of the accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case had visited the shop where he worked in 2010 or 2011 and purchased an air gun.

The Times of India

Bengaluru: Journalist Gauri Lankesh had spoken of men loitering near house, says filmmaker Kavitha Lankesh

BENGALURU: Filmmaker Kavitha Lankesh told a city court on Monday that a week before the murder of her sister, journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, the latter told her and their mother that “some men were suspiciously loitering near her house”.

The Hindu

Murder trial: Gauri Lankesh’s sister examined

Bengaluru

Newslaundry

TV Newsance 177: Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and cheering of Zubair’s arrest

This week, the news of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s beheading in Udaipur by two extremist Muslim men, Gaus Mohammad and Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari, hit headlines. One would think there was nothing to “debate” about such a crime, but when does news TV disappoint? Times Now, where the entire Nupur Sharma…

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