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Image:   Two police officers patrol a street in Moscow in August 2022. Authorities searched the homes of five journalists on September 8, 2022, over their alleged connection to a former Duma member charged with spreading false information about the Russian army. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova) Paris, September 8, 2022—Russian authorities should stop using investigations into so-called “fake” […]

In May, editors at the pro-abortion rights news website Rewire took the extraordinary step of removing reporters’ biographies from the web site.The move was a safety precaution: After the leak of a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationto overturn the constitutional right to abortion, reporters at Rewire grew concerned about a

Four journalists have recently been arrested and prevented from working. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is stunned by the lack of the Swedish police’s knowledge about the legal protection of press freedom. On 22 August the police in Stockholm arrested a journalist, Markus Jordö, while he was working on a documentary for Swedish public service television, SVT. He

Image: La journaliste Vera Magalhães et le candidat Bolsonaro lors du premier débat présidentiel, le 28/11/2022 Exclusive: The campaign for Brazil’s two-round presidential election on 2 and 30 October has just begun. Each week, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will monitor more than 100 Twitter and Facebook accounts of journalists, government officials and candidates with the aim

For the past six months, independent and opposition journalists in Russia have been prevented from covering the activities of Russia’s armed forces by the threat of 15 years in prison. The law adopted on 4 March was just the first in a series of anti-media laws. After analysing these additions to the Kremlin’s legislative arsenal,

Image:Hackers target politicians with fake news website Hackers created a fake news website to harvest data from Australian government officials, journalists and others, according to a top US security company. The targets received emails claiming to be from Australian news outlets, which linked them to a malicious website. The website, populated with articles stolen from

Twitter is finally giving its users the new feature they have most requested – an edit button. “If you see an edited Tweet, it’s because we’re testing the edit button. This is happening and you’ll be OK,” the company tweeted. It is currently testing the feature and will roll it out in the coming weeks

bySHRADDHA CHAKRADHAR Sep 1, 2022 in AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT How do people who have low trust in news sources decide which publications to trust? That’s the central question behind a published report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s Trust in News project. The answer: People are quick to make judgments — snap judgments, as the

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Colombian authorities to shed all possible light on the murders of journalists Leiner Montero and Dilia Contreras in the northern department of Magdalena last weekend, shortly after they were reportedly threatened by a local paramilitary chief’s brother. The authorities must also step up protection for media personnel throughout