The FactSeeker team of the Sri Lanka Press Institute took the first steps to set up a Fact Checkers Forum in Sri Lanka today. This event was held on the zoom platform with representatives from like-minded fact-checking organizations in Sri Lanka, namely: AFP News Agency, Factcrescendo – Sri Lanka, Verité Research’s FactCheck.lk, Hashtag Generation and
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Real Journalists are an ageing species under threat of extinction. We record their characteristics here so we can remember them one day, writes Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief of Daily Maverick, South Africa. Things are changing fast and humanity is hurtling towards an unpredictable future. We’re not stable in our lives, professions, societies, cultures. The rhythm of
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a decision by Cameroon’s National Communication Council (CNC) to suspend the head of one of the country’s most outspoken and popular TV channels, one of its star presenters, and one of its leading current affairs programmes for a month. The suspensions are arbitrary and unjustified, and constitute a serious press
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For six months, a bug in Facebook’s content-ranking algorithm increased the visibility of content previously flagged by fact-checkers as disinformation. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for detailed public explanations from the US social media mega-company about this bug and its impact. The flaw’s existence has just been revealed by The Verge, a US tech website that
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announces its support for H.R. 4330 — The Protect Reporters from Excessive State Suppression (PRESS) Act — a bill prohibiting the federal government from compelling journalists and providers of telecommunications services to disclose protected information. Sponsored by Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the PRESS Act seeks to protect information identifying a source,
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2022-04-04. This weekend, Sarajevo daily Oslobođenje released a special edition to commemorate the siege of Sarajevo and the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an armed conflict that lasted between 1992 and 1995. It highlights the role and value of independent journalism during conflict and when rebuilding a nation. As war rages on in Ukraine, Oslobođenje’s
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Ahead of national elections in the Philippines on May 9, the State has stepped up its attacks on Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa and the news outlet she leads, Rappler. “This dramatic escalation in the legal harassment of Maria Ressa and Rappler highlights the urgent need for the Philippines’ to decriminalise libel and do away with laws that are repeatedly
The chief executive of a political consulting firm has responded to a report alleging Meta paid his company to “undermine” TikTok. Internal emails, apparently seen by the Washington Post, allegedly suggested Targeted Victory’s campaign aimed to show TikTok “as a danger to American children”. Zac Moffatt tweeted that the Post’s report mischaracterised their work and “key points
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the request of a Turkish prosecutor to end legal proceedings in Turkey in the murder case of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi and hand the case over to Saudi Arabia instead. The move would dash any remaining hopes of criminal justice for the 2018 assassination. RSF urges the
2022-04-04. Many foreign correspondents who reported from Sarajevo during the siege view it as the most important story of their careers. Kenneth Morrison, Professor of History at De Montfort University in the UK, recalls what the experience was like, and talks about the changes that occurred in the practice of journalism. This article was first
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