Articles by Listening Post
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What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.
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Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Listening Post | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. Narrated by Amy Goodman, Executive Producer of Democracy Now! Mar 2, 2017
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Listening Post – Al Jazeera English,
6 Oct 2014
The ‘Snowden effect’ and challenges to the media in the age of state supervision. We spoke to journalists and technologists at the forefront of the effort to keep our communications – both the content and its related metadata – unavailable to the governments who might take advantage of them.
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Bahrain: Below the Radar
Listening Post - Al Jazeera,
25 Apr 2011
Bahrain – a small kingdom cracking down on the media in a big way. Plus, a look at state media in post-revolution Egypt.
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