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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Johnny Depp’s maverick lawyer Adam Waldman finally comes under scrutiny. Alexi uncovers Waldman’s links to powerful figures and investigates his role in feeding online abuse. Can the team get to the truth about who trolled Amber?
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Reporter and host: Alexi Mostrous
Producer and reporter: Xavier Greenwood
Editor: David Taylor
Narrative editor: Gary Marshall
Additional reporting: Katie Riley
Sound design: Karla Patella
Artwork: Jon Hill & Oscar Ingham
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0:00.0 | Just a warning before we start this this series contains strong language and descriptions of violence. |
0:19.0 | I wrote about the nuclear industry in France, EDF, RBNB, the green industry in Saudi Arabia. |
0:29.0 | Meet Julian. He's a journalist, but not a normal one. |
0:32.0 | I wrote under the pseudonym of Julian. He's a journalist, but not a normal one. |
0:33.0 | I wrote under the pseudonym of Julian Fomentar, |
0:37.0 | it's the anagram of Fontum, in French, |
0:42.0 | so a ghost, and Julian Rosa with the tea, it's the anagram for journalist. |
0:48.1 | So it's a Phantom journalist, ghost journalist, which is what I did for six years. |
0:53.5 | Julian has written hundreds of articles, |
0:56.5 | not for a newspaper or a blogging site, |
0:58.5 | but for a French PR firm. |
1:00.5 | I've got human rights in Qatar, presidential elections in many countries such as Gabon, Ivory Coast, |
1:09.2 | Congo, Djibouti. |
1:11.6 | The stories didn't look like puff pieces from a PR company. |
1:15.0 | They read like genuine news articles, and they were convincing enough to appear in major |
1:20.0 | publications like the Huffington Post. |
1:22.3 | But in each case Julian's real identity was disguised. |
1:27.0 | My stories were published under some different fake identities, such as lawyers, teachers, students, economists, what else nurses could be a professor, |
1:40.9 | an engineer. |
1:41.9 | Anyone reading Julian's work would think it was written by an expert, someone impartial or with real experience, |
1:48.0 | when actually it was anything but. |
1:50.0 | There was a fire in Flamendil, one of the French nuclear plants in Normandy. |
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