The 92,000 Afghan war documents released by Wikileaks include evidence that the US military has been paying local media outlets to run friendly stories, Yahoo! News in the US reports.

Senior blogger for the site John Cook says: “Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams (also known as PRTs, civilian-military hybrids tasked with rebuilding Afghanistan) show that local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the United States.

“Other reports show US military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as ‘our journalists’ and directing them in how to do their jobs.”