{"id":28224,"date":"2017-11-23T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28224"},"modified":"2017-11-23T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:48:19","slug":"is-the-mexican-government-spying-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28224","title":{"rendered":"Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"short-form-article__header short-form-article__header--video\">\n<h3 class=\"hed-xxl article__title article__title--video short-form-article__header--video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/9kq4zz\/is-the-mexican-government-spying-on-journalists\">Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"short-form-article__bounding-box\">\n<div class=\"short-form-article__body\">\n<div class=\"short-form-article__body__content\">\n<p class=\"article__dek hed-l article__dek--video\"><strong>On the season finale of &#8216;CYBERWAR,&#8217; Ben Makuch investigates why government spyware is cropping up on Mexican reporters&#8217; smartphones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__share-icons\">\n<div class=\"social-list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contributor video-lede\">\n<div class=\"contributor__details\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video__lede__embed\">\n<div data-video-url=\"https:\/\/video.vice.com\/en_us\/embed\/5a0b18fe177dd428d3222d61?autoplay=1&amp;volume=0\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video.vice.com\/en_us\/embed\/5a0b18fe177dd428d3222d61?autoplay=1&amp;volume=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-img=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body bod-m\">\n<p>On Tuesday, VICELAND is airing the season finale of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viceland.com\/en_us\/show\/cyberwar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CYBERWAR<\/a><\/i>, sending Ben Makuch to Mexico to investigate the government&#8217;s potentially fraught use of hacking tools. Mexican authorities purchased spyware for their fight against drug cartels\u2014but now a spate of watchdog journalists covering government corruption have detected the invasive software on their smartphones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists? On the season finale of &#8216;CYBERWAR,&#8217; Ben Makuch investigates why government spyware is cropping up on Mexican reporters&#8217; smartphones. On Tuesday, VICELAND is airing the season finale of CYBERWAR, sending Ben Makuch to Mexico to investigate the government&#8217;s potentially fraught use of hacking tools. Mexican authorities purchased spyware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5029,2324,517,938,765,13929],"class_list":["post-28224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cyberwar","tag-journalists","tag-mexico","tag-press-freedom","tag-surveillance","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28225,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224\/revisions\/28225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}