![A screen displays a notice on an iPhone in New York, Oct. 29, 2019 (AP photo by Jenny Kane).](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/l_project-pegasus-07232021-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
This is the web version of our subscriber-only Weekly Wrap-Up newsletter, which uses relevant WPR coverage to provide background and context to the week’s top stories. Subscribe to receive it by email every Saturday. If you’re already a subscriber, adjust your newsletter settings to receive it directly to your email inbox. Explosive revelations this week from the Pegasus Project detailed the widespread use of the Pegasus surveillance software program by repressive governments and three democracies—Hungary, India and Mexico—to spy on their own citizen activists and journalists, but also on foreign journalists and even heads of government. The software, developed and sold by the Israeli […]