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From New York, this is Democracy Now. Surveillance of journalists, and this goes for surveillance of dissidents, it goes for surveillance of political opposition members that we see in the film and in the world now so often is not just information gathering.

Surveillance of this type is intimidation, and it shrinks the space for all kinds of expression

in democracies.

Is that a spy in your pocket?

In this holiday special, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow

about surveilled, his new documentary, looking at how surveillance spyware is threatening

democracy across the globe. We'll also discuss how the incoming Trump administration could

use the technology to hack your phone.

Plus, we look at Trump's war on the press as he sues the Des Moines Register for publishing

a poll before the election that showed him trailing Kamala Harris.

I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest.

And you need a fair press.

And the press says, no, I see others.

I have a few others that I'm doing.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman. We begin today's show looking at a new

film that examines the increasing use of spyware targeting journalists, human rights advocates,

and dissident voices around the world. The HBO original documentary surveilled follows the

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow as he

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