With Judgement Day in Julian Assange’s extradition case coming Monday, we look back at the 2017 Holberg Debate with Assange, John Pilger and Jonathan Heawood, discussing the presence of propaganda in news and social media.
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, journalist, author & filmmaker John Pilger & Jonathan Heawood, CEO and founder of IMPRESS, the only press regulator recognized as independent under the UK Royal Charter, discuss propaganda in news and its implications for democracy.
About 00:11:00 Julian Assange
About 00:56:00 Questions for Julian Assange
About 01:19:00 Jonathan Heawood
About 01:43:00 John Pilger
About 02:17:11 Q&A Session
The Holberg Debate 2017 was a collaboration between the Holberg Prize, the Fritt Ord Foundation and Norwegian PEN (Western Norway).
Presented with permission from the Holberg Debates.
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