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| 13.09.2024 | Hong Kong journalist group says dozens of journalists harassed | HONG KONG : Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and their families have been harassed and intimidated online and in person over the last three months starting from June, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said on Friday (Sep 13).
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| 30.08.2024 | The Fragile State of Press Freedom: A Global Perspective | In the modern world, the role of the press is akin to a lighthouse in a storm. It guides society through turbulent waters, illuminating the truth. Yet, this beacon is dimming in many parts of the globe. Recent events in Israel and Hong Kong... |
| 30.08.2024 | Indonesia: 11 journalists attacked in widespread protest | The journalists were attacked and had their equipment damaged while covering a demonstration at the House of Representatives (DPR) in the Senayan Parliament Complex in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) an... |
| 29.08.2024 | Hong Kong court convicts former Stand News editors of sedition | HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court on Thursday (Aug 29) found two editors of the now-defunct Stand News media outlet guilty of conspiring to publish seditious articles in a case that has drawn international scrutiny amid a security crackdown in t... |
| 26.08.2024 | Media groups call on EU to suspend treaty, impose sanctions on Israel | PARIS: Some 60 media and rights organisations on Monday (Aug 26) urged the European Union to suspend a co-operation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of "massacring journalists" in Gaza.
"In response to the... |
| 03.08.2024 | The Olympics and the Price of Security: A Double-Edged Sword | The 2024 Paris Olympics is set to be a grand spectacle, a celebration of athletic prowess and international unity. Yet, beneath the surface of this global event lies a darker narrative: the pervasive shadow of surveillance. As athletes and ... |
| 01.08.2024 | Russia frees US reporter Evan Gershkovich in major prisoner swap with West | WASHINGTON: Imprisoned United States journalist Evan Gershkovich and a Russian intelligence colonel jailed for the Berlin murder of a fugitive Chechen were among 24 people freed Thursday in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Race to Reusability: Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Takes Flight**
** | ** In the ever-evolving landscape of space exploration, Blue Origin is carving its own path. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, recently unveiled a significant advancement in its reusable rocket technology: the New Glenn rocket's six landi... |
| 19.07.2024 | Journalist ordered to pay over $5,000 to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni for making fun of her height | A judge in Milan has ordered an Italian journalist to pay 5,000 euros (nearly $5,500) in damages to Premier Giorgia Meloni for making fun of her height in social media posts.
The judge ruled on Wednesday that two social media posts by journ... |
| 03.07.2024 | India: IPI calls for renewed commitment to press freedom | IPI urges PM Narendra Modi to honour his commitment to freedom of the press
India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Narendra Modi (R) takes the oath as India's Prime Minister during the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace i... |
| 02.07.2024 | Indonesian police probe arson accusation in death of reporter | JAKARTA: Indonesian police are investigating an accusation by a journalists' group that arson was behind a fire that killed a reporter and three of his family, an official said on Tuesday (Jul 2), a rare incident that has prompted concern o... |
| 14.06.2024 | European Commission study on journalist safety lacks solutions while security deteriorates | Media freedom groups highlight disconnect between report findings and ground realities
Paris, France. February 12, 2022: journalists and press, filming in front of police during riots on Champs Elysées Avenue. Shutterstock / EricBery
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| 08.06.2024 | Vietnam arrests prominent journalist over Facebook posts | BANGKOK: Authorities in Vietnam have arrested a leading independent journalist for "abusing democratic freedoms" to undermine the state by posting articles on Facebook, police announced on Saturday (Jun 8).
Huy Duc was detained fo... |
| 31.05.2024 | En busca de los desaparecidos en México | Published on: 31 mayo, 2024
Por Angélica Ospina
En una radiante mañana de un domingo en noviembre de 2022, diez personas se reunieron en la plaza principal de Zacatecas, un pueblo colonial al norte de Ciudad de México, a tejer. Se encuentra... |
| 22.05.2024 | Israel backs down over confiscation of AP camera equipment | JERUSALEM: The Israeli authorities confiscated camera equipment belonging to the Associated Press on Tuesday (May 21), before reversing course in the face of widespread condemnation from media groups and criticism even from its closest ally... |
| 22.04.2024 | TikTok Vows Legal Battle Against Potential US Ban | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 22 April 2024, 10:04 am
Popular social media platform TikTok intends to fight any ban or forced sale of its US business in court after the House of Representatives passed legislation over the weekend.
TikTok's future ... |
| 08.04.2024 | Media freedom has disappeared under BJP regime, says Kerala CM Vijayan | Media freedom has disappeared under the BJP rule, with the Sangh Parivar relentlessly targeting those outlets that do not sing praises for the regime, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan alleged on Monday.
He was reacting to news reports... |
| 18.03.2024 | Call for withdrawal of Slovakia’s repressive broadcast law | Slovak government attempts to take over the public broadcaster
A protester with a placard 'Freedom for Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS) not the old tricks' takes part in a demonstration against the government's plan of reorganization... |
| 18.03.2024 | Press freedom organisations call for urgent EU action to prevent political take-over of Slovak public media | European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen European council President, Charles Michel European Parliament President Roberta Metsola Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
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We, the undersigned interna... |
| 16.03.2024 | Israeli tank 'likely' opened fire on reporters with a heavy machine gun, says report | Military & Defense Israeli tank 'likely' opened fire on reporters with a heavy machine gun, says report
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| 12.01.2024 | Walking the tightrope: Orban, Fico, and the future of central European diplomacy | Amid increasing global multipolarity, a central tension is arising within the European Union: newer member states, particularly those of central Europe, practice full alignment with western Europe and the United States on paper, but unlike ... |
| 14.12.2023 | Беларусь в мировом топ-3 по числу журналистов за решёткой | Отдел новостей 14 декабря 2023, 13:05 Беларусь в мировом топ-3 по числу журналистов за решёткой
По данным международной организации «Репортёры без границ», прямо сейчас в мире находится под стражей 521 журналист. Это меньше 569 журналистов,... |
| 10.11.2023 | Charter for AI and Journalism: tech standards must be the responsibility of publishers | WAN-IFRA participated in the working group convened by RSF to draw up an ethical charter to guide the use of AI in Journalism, which is published today (Download). The process was initiated in response to the disruptive threat that AI posed... |
| 16.10.2023 | Gaza is using ice cream trucks to store bodies because morgues are running out of space: report | People move the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes, from an ice cream truck in the Gaza Strip. Stringer/Reuters
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| 04.08.2023 | Reporters Without Borders, Journalist Groups Partnered to Craft 'Responsible' AI Use Guidelines in Media | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 04 August 2023, 05:08 am
In light of the rapidly advancing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the media landscape, concerns over information integrity have prompted the formation of an international committee ... |
| 06.07.2023 | France Moves Toward Full-Blown Surveillance State | France is taking steps toward becoming a full-blown surveillance state, voting in favor of a law that would allow police to spy on individuals via their devices.
Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti has led the charge on passage of a law th... |
| 31.05.2023 | South Africa improves its ranking in World Press Freedom Index | Image: GCIS VuK’ZENZELE.
One of the most important features of an effective democracy is a free media. We should therefore be encouraged by the recent release of the latest World Press Freedom Index, in which South Africa significantly impr... |
| 24.05.2023 | Veteran journalist shot dead while leaving his home in Mexico | A Mexican journalist who was also a former local official was shot dead Tuesday in the country's central Puebla region, authorities said. Marco Aurelio Ramirez, 69, was killed in broad daylight as he left his home in the town of Tehuacan. H... |
| 16.05.2023 | Addressing Media Capture | For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain. In some cases, the harm from state media can be ... |
| 12.05.2023 | Press freedom in Africa: Which countries enjoy it the most? | Overall, press freedom in Africa has become more difficult. Image: Pixabay
The 21st edition of the World Press Freedom Index was released earlier this month. It sheds light on major, sometimes radical changes linked to political, social and... |
| 03.05.2023 | В Беларуси стало ещё хуже со свободой прессы | Отдел новостей 3 мая 2023, 10:37 В Беларуси стало ещё хуже со свободой прессы
Международная организация «Репортёры без границ» обновила Всемирный индекс свободы прессы. В 2023 году Беларусь опустилась в нём на 4 пункта. Годом ранее наша стр... |
| 03.05.2023 | Пресса без свободы | В 2022 году у рекордно высокого числа стран — 31 — свобода средств массовой информации была на самом низком уровне, то есть она практически отсутствовала. В число этих, по большей части автократических, государств, по мнению публикующей рей... |
| 03.05.2023 | Map: What is the state of press freedom in the world today? | Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day.
To mark 30 years since the United Nations General Assembly designated the day, a special event will be held at the UN headquarters in New York.
This year’s theme will spotlig... |
| 12.04.2023 | Algeria law ‘controlling media’ close to passing | A new media bill in Algeria that would place curbs on media ownership rules and force journalists to give up their sources has raised alarms among rights groups.
On March 28, the lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved the propose... |
| 24.03.2023 | Bangladesh investigative journalist’s brother ‘beaten with rods’ | The brother of Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan, who worked on an investigative report about the country’s prime minister, alleges he was beaten with iron rods by four men in the capital Dhaka last week.
Mahinur Khan told Al Jaze... |
| 23.01.2023 | Martinez Zogo, popular Cameroon radio journalist, found dead after reported abduction | A popular Cameroon radio journalist who had been missing following what a media rights group called an abduction has been found dead, his employer and police said on Sunday.
Martinez Zogo was managing director of Yaounde-based private radio... |
| 20.12.2022 | The democracy deficit: What does a global decline in freedom portend for climate and sustainability agendas? | Global freedom is under threat. Authoritarian regimes have become more effective at co-opting or circumventing norms. The world has experienced a decline in global freedom for 16 consecutive years, according to Freedom House’s 2022 Freedom ... |
| 13.12.2022 | Chad's Transition - Easing Tensions Online | Chadian's growing use of social media could prove a boon for the country's political transition, but it could also fuel violence offline. With donor's backing, authorities, civil society, online platforms and influencers should work to ensu... |
| 02.11.2022 | The murder of Somalia’s brave journalists must stop | Somalia can lay claim – through no choice of its own people – to being the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa. Data collected by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the testimonies of local journalists demons... |
| 29.10.2022 | Pakistan's powerful spy agency comes out of the shadows to deny role in the killing of a high-profile journalist in Kenya | Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif speaks at an event on June 22, 2022. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images
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| 27.10.2022 | Putin — who has jailed critics and rivals — took a nonsensical detour in his major foreign policy speech to rail against 'cancel culture' | Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club forum in the Moscow region on October 27, 2022. Photo by SERGEI GUNEYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images
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| 20.10.2022 | History reveals how to get Ukraine reconstruction right: anti-corruption | While there is currently no clear end in sight to ongoing Russian military aggression against Ukraine, discussions are already active about Ukraine’s reconstruction. At the Lugano conference in July, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky u... |
| 17.08.2022 | Saudi Arabia sentences Salma al-Shehab to "unprecedented" 34-year jail term over tweets, rights groups say | Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison and an additional 34 years under a travel ban for sharing her views on Twitter, according to rights groups. Salma Al-Shehab's prison sentence was longer than any previously given to a... |
| 25.07.2022 | A new Kangana Ranaut movie revisits the anger and anguish of the Emergency | A new Hindi film, Emergency, directed by Kangana Ranaut and also starring her as former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, has run into trouble even before its release, with the Congress expressing reservations about how it portrays Mrs G... |
| 09.05.2022 | Elon Musk’s Twitter Strategy Might Enforce Censorship, Not Open It Up To All | What happens when unrestricted social media meets up with censorious governments? getty |
| 22.04.2022 | Putin’s war on Ukraine hasn’t affected populism. These leaders and their tactics show why | Governments described as populist are now in power in Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Hungary, Italy, Venezuela, and Russia. Experts say populist leaders from Donald Trump in the US to Marine Le Pen in France have fundamentally alt... |
| 17.03.2022 | Ukrainian man describes life in Russian-occupied Kherson: Dead bodies in the street, and no way out | 20-year-old Igor walks through the streets of Russian-occupied Kherson, Ukraine.
Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, Ukraine, in early March.
Life for 290,000 residents changed overnight, and food supplies are quickly disappearing.... |
| 24.01.2022 | In 2019, a journalist told Mexico's president, "I fear for my life." She was just found shot to death in Tijuana. | A journalist was killed Sunday, the second in a week's time in the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana, and the third in Mexico this month. Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside a car, according to a statement from the B... |
| 18.01.2022 | News photographer shot dead while "coming out of his house" in Mexico, days after reporter killed | A news photographer was killed in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Monday, the same day press groups said a reporter had been killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz last week. The two killings marked a grim start to 2022 in Mexico,... |
| 28.12.2021 | Why Are Authoritarians Framing International Approaches to Disinformation? | On Nov. 15, the U.N. General Assembly Third Committee approved by consensus a new resolution on disinformation. The draft resolution urges social media companies “to review their business models and ensure that their business operations, da... |
| 14.12.2021 | artnet : In 2016, Julian Assange Gave Ai Weiwei a Treadmill. Now the Artist Is Using it in a Campaign to Save the Wikileaks Founder | Politics In 2016, Julian Assange Gave Ai Weiwei a Treadmill. Now the Artist Is Using it in a Campaign to Save the Wikileaks Founder
Ai Weiwei says that any threat to Julian Assange is an attack on press freedom globally.
Vivienne Chow, Dece... |
| 20.11.2021 | Карликовый большой брат: как Сингапур сочетает развитую экономику и тотальную слежку | 45K 6 7 мин. ...
Сочетание экономического процветания и высокого уровня безопасности с жесткими наказаниями и постоянной слежкой за гражданами стало своего рода брендом Сингапура. В последние годы все это подкрепляется самыми современными т... |
| 10.11.2021 | US urges China to release Zhang Zhan, who reported on pandemic from Wuhan, reportedly close to death | Getty Images.
The US State Department is calling on China to release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan.
Zhang, known for her reporting in Wuhan during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, was jailed in December.
The State Department's call ... |
| 07.11.2021 | Chinese journalist imprisoned for her coverage of Wuhan Covid-19 pandemic 'close to death' - reports | Zhang Zhan's family say she is close to death and will not survive the winter.
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Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison for her early coverage of Covid-19 in Wuhan.
Her family warned that Zhan is close ... |
| 02.11.2021 | ‘Chilling pattern’: Pakistani journalists ‘targeted’ by cyber law | Islamabad, Pakistan – At least 23 Pakistani journalists have been “targeted” under the country’s draconian cyber-crime law in the last two years, establishing a “chilling pattern” of using the threat of legal action to silence dissent, a ne... |
| 08.10.2021 | Лауреатами Нобелевской премии мира стали Дмитрий Муратов (главред «Новой газеты») и Мария Ресса | Норвежский Нобелевский комитет присудил премию мира главному редактору «Новой газеты» Дмитрию Муратову и генеральному директору филиппинского расследовательского издания Rappler Марии Рессе. Журналисты награждены за то, что отстаивают свобо... |
| 01.10.2021 | #TwitterBan update: Should you worry if Twitter succumbs to Nigerian government’s demands? | Share this article:
UPDATE: On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, the Nigerian government lifted the ban on Twitter after the company agreed to its conditions.
Again, Nigerians have been promised the lifting of the four-month-long Twitter ban. Af... |
| 30.09.2021 | Social Media Regulation In African Countries Will Require More Than International Human Rights Law | There has been a lot of focus on moderation as carried out by platforms—the rules social media companies base their decision on what content remains online. There has however been limited attention on how actors other than social media plat... |
| 29.09.2021 | ‘Death knell’: Afghan journalists fear new Taliban media rules | In spite of Taliban promises of a “free and independent” media, journalists and media workers have faced detention, physical abuse and torture since the group took over Afghanistan six weeks ago.
Now a new set of media regulations issued ea... |
| 28.09.2021 | Despite enacted laws, access to basic information remains a luxury in Africa | Share this article:
On a cool Tuesday afternoon in April 2011 in Abuja, Nigeria’s political and administrative capital, lawmakers of the upper chamber gathered in their usual outfits, typifying the country’s rich cultural diversity.
At such... |
| 23.09.2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| 24.08.2021 | A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections, says Citizen Lab | A Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new security protections that Apple designed to withstand covert compromises, say researchers at Citizen ... |
| 06.08.2021 | Tucker Carlson did PR for Hungary’s authoritarian leader, presenting the country as ‘freer’ than the US | Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary and praising the country’s autocratic leader. YouTube
Tucker Carlson gave Hungary’s authoritarian leader a platform to spread his xenophobic views.
Carlson presented Hungary as “freer” than the Un... |
| 04.08.2021 | Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary because its authoritarian, anti-immigrant leader has set a model for America’s far right | The Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a summit in 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary this week.
Carlson is promoting the worldview of Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.... |
| 25.07.2021 | Pegasus Spyware: This New App Says It Can Instantly Check For Pegasus | The Pegasus spyware has been in the news over the last week, with many people fearing the NSO Group-made malware could be hiding on their phones. Pegasus is even more scary because it is invisible and difficult to detect and remove. But it ... |
| 21.07.2021 | ‘Journalism is sacred work’: Afghanistan’s front line reporters | Kabul, Afghanistan – It was about 8am on a Monday morning in April 2018 when Bushra Seddique felt the multi-storey apartment building she was living in with her family in Kabul’s Shash Darak district shake. Smoke billowed from the street be... |
| 25.06.2021 | Time To End India’s War on Sedition | What do a 22-year-old climate activist, a journalist reporting on a gang rape case and a politician supporting a farmers’ protest have in common? They have all recently been charged with sedition as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go... |
| 27.05.2021 | What you need to know, as Kenya moves to outlaw pornography | Share this article:
People caught sharing pornography on the Internet in Kenya might soon find themselves guilty of an offence punishable by either a 25-year-jail term, a Ksh 20 million ($183,823.53) fine, or both.
This is proposed by a bil... |
| 23.04.2021 | The Other George Floyd Story: How Media Freedom Led To Conviction In His Killer's Trial | When 17-year-old Darnella Frazier started recording video of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd, she initiated a series of historic events that led to Chauvin?s conviction. |
| 23.04.2021 | The Other George Floyd Story: How Media Freedom Led To Conviction In His Killer's Trial | When 17-year-old Darnella Frazier started recording video of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd, she initiated a series of historic events that led to Chauvin’s conviction. |
| 20.04.2021 | Беларусь 158-я из 180 в рейтинге свободы СМИ — минус пять пунктов за год | Александра Кукуть 20 апреля 2021, 16:44 Беларусь 158-я из 180 в рейтинге свободы СМИ — минус пять пунктов за год
Международная организация «Репортёры без границ» во вторник обновила ежегодный Всемирный индекс свободы прессы. Беларусь заняла... |
| 20.04.2021 | India still has the ‘bad’ classification in the World Press Freedom Index, falls behind Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal | The World Press Freedom Index 2021, which determines the liberty given to the press in a country, was recently released by Reporters Without Borders.
India has the 142nd rank of the 180 countries surveyed by the organisation and continues t... |
| 23.03.2021 | Facebook Gets Sued in France for Allowing Hate Speeches and Misinformation to Stay on the Platform | Sieeka Khan, Tech Times 23 March 2021, 01:03 pm
(Photo : Pexels/Pixabay) Facebook sued in France over hate speech and misinformation
Facebook has been routinely accused of doing too little to stop the spread of hate and misinformation, and ... |
| 18.02.2021 | Why Are Farmers Protesting in India? | As military tanks and elaborate floats paraded through the center of New Delhi on Jan. 26 as part of India’s annual Republic Day celebrations—commemorating the day India’s democratic constitution came into effect—a rally just miles away tur... |
| 08.12.2020 | France's Treatment of Its Muslim Citizens Is the True Measure of Its Republican Values | Since the 2015 terrorist attacks against the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, France has faced a succession of such attacks by Muslim extremists, the most recent of which saw the October beheading of teacher Samuel Paty and the mu... |
| 06.11.2020 | Vietnamese Hackers Ran ‘Fake News’ Websites To Target Visitors | A hacking group that researchers believe is working for Vietnam's government ran almost twenty fake websites and several Facebook pages in an attempt to gather information on visitors and infect some of them with malware, according to new r... |
| 18.09.2020 | ‘I Face Rape Threats Daily’: What It’s Like Being a Female Journalist in Pakistan | Being a journalist in Pakistan has never been easy. Multiple press watchdogs suggest that it is only getting worse.
Journalists are being targeted, kidnapped and killed in the country by state and non-state actors just by reporting and doin... |
| 26.08.2020 | How the Battle for Thailand Is Being Fought on Twitter | Thailand’s protests highlight the vulnerabilities of major social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
Thai residents began protesting the nation's military regime earlier this year, giving voice to frustrations that have been buildin... |
| 10.08.2020 | On Singapore National Day, We Asked Singaporeans Abroad About Their Wishes For The Country's Future | Each year on August 9, Singapore celebrates National Day, marking the day it achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965.
The patriotic day is marked with military parades and impressive fireworks displays. While this year’s events were sca... |
| 11.06.2020 | The US response to the George Floyd protests feels uncannily familiar to people who lived through the start of the Arab Spring | A composite image of a 2020 protest in Washington, D.C., and a 2011 protest in Cairo, Egypt. Getty Images/AP Images
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| 27.05.2020 | The German Constitutional Court Nixes Foreign Surveillance | Debates about how the rules apply to spies are as old as the Bible. Rahab was the only resident of ancient Jericho who was spared the Lord’s curse and the destruction of the city’s property. Joshua wanted to show his gratitude for the risks... |
| 12.05.2020 | Crypto Under Corona: Singapore and Slovenia (Updated) | For nearly two years I traveled around the world and wrote about the subcultures of blockchain – from Bali to Budapest, from Serbia to Switzerland. I planned to continue the journey. I imagined I’d be traveling to far-flung places this summ... |
| 16.04.2020 | China's NBA Free Speech Debacle Turned Out To Be A Prelude To Its COVID-19 Denialism | Since time is a concept with increasingly less meaning, you may have forgotten that it’s been only five months, not five years, since the NBA’s dustup with China over Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong... |
| 08.04.2020 | Water Wars: Coronavirus Spreads Risk of Conflict Around the South China Sea | Washington and Beijing are using their militaries to signal that neither is letting down its guard on Taiwan and the South China Sea during the coronavirus pandemic. Soon after Taiwan’s Vice President-Elect William Lai Ching-te visited the ... |
| 12.03.2020 | Reporters Without Borders uses Minecraft to sneak censored works across borders | Censorship takes many forms, but even the most restrictive countries can’t block every single path for information they’d rather not get in (or out). Reporters Without Borders has identified a surprising new platform for hosting banned cont... |
| 21.01.2020 | In A Blatant Attack On Press Freedom, Brazilian Government Charges Glenn Greenwald With 'Cybercrimes' For Reporting On Leaked Documents | I don’t always agree with Glenn Greenwald, and over the last few years have grown increasingly frustrated with either his confusing and contradictory positions or his bizarre stubbornness in being purposefully obtuse in his explanations of ... |
| 21.01.2020 | In A Blatant Attack On Press Freedom, Brazilian Government Charges Glenn Greenwald With 'Cybercrimes' For Reporting On Leaked Documents | I don't always agree with Glenn Greenwald, and over the last few years have grown increasingly frustrated with either his confusing and contradictory positions or his bizarre stubbornness in being purposefully obtuse in his explanations of ... |
| 01.07.2019 | Which Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship? | The internet’s instant access to information is crucial for education, spreading ideas and activism. This makes it a significant threat to authoritarian governments, leading many countries to strictly censor websites, content, and communica... |
| 03.04.2019 | Singapore’s proposed ‘fake news’ law could stifle free speech | For many, Singapore is an idyllic and livable city in Asia. But there’s serious concern for the country and its five million population around a proposed law to curb ‘fake news’ on the internet that could have ramifications for free speech.... |
| 13.03.2019 | Facebook won’t store data in countries with human rights violations — except Singapore | As soon as Mark Zuckerberg said in a lengthy 3,225-word blog post to not build data centers in countries with poor human rights, he had already broken his promise.
He chose to ignore Singapore, which the Facebook founder had only months ear... |
| 01.03.2019 | Angry Bitcoin Fans Delete Coinbase Accounts to Protest Neutrino Acquisition | The battle cry #DeleteCoinbase is resounding across crypto Twitter as bitcoin users close their accounts to protest a controversial acquisition by the exchange.
These users are upset with Coinbase for acquiring Neutrino because that blockch... |
| 01.02.2019 | The Assad regime deliberately killed war correspondent Marie Colvin, judge rules | A U.S. court has ruled that the Assad regime deliberately targeted American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed in the Syrian city of Homs in 2012.
Describing the killing as an “unconscionable act,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman... |
| 18.12.2018 | 2018 was the worst year on record for violence against journalists | Attacks against the media by “unscrupulous” politicians helped make 2018 the worst ever year for violence and abuse against journalists, according to a report released Tuesday.
At least 80 journalists were killed, 348 are in jail and anothe... |
| 18.12.2018 | Twitter suspeita que China e Arábia Saudita estejam por trás de um ataque | O Twitter divulgou na segunda-feira (17) um comunicado alertando sobre um vazamento de dados por meio do formulário de suporte da rede social. A falha expôs os códigos de área dos telefones dos usuários e se uma determinada conta estava ati... |
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A 2016 report by Portland, a London-based communications agency revealed that Africans use Twitter for political conversations more than people from other continents. This can be attributed to the high level of corruptio... |
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| 31.10.2017 | Germany’s Bold Gambit to Prevent Online Hate Crimes and Fake News Takes Effect | The German Act to Improve the Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks (known as the Network Enforcement Law or the NetzDG), which targets online hate crimes and false news reports, went into effect on Oct. 1, 2017. Both the justice minist... |
| 05.10.2017 | Already huge in China, Tuputech pitches its AI that identifies porn and violence stateside | Social media platforms have a content problem.
This isn’t about the fact that last year they became (hopefully) unwitting shills for foreign governments trying to sway the outcome of our national elections.
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