Sachini Kavindya

Online hate speech in the UK and US has risen by 20% since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report. Youth charity Ditch the Label commissioned the study, which analysed 263 million conversations in the UK and US, between 2019 and mid-2021. It found 50.1 million discussions about, or examples of, racist […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the murder of a journalist in Bihar state, in northeastern Indian, whose burned body was found at a roadside three days after he went missing while investigating illegal clinics. Those behind this shocking crime must be identified and brought to justice, RSF says. The charred body of Budhinath Jha,

On the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum, the Forum on Information and Democracy is unveiling the first names of the “prefiguration group” that will pave the way for the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, including Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace prize laureate. The prefiguration group will be guided by a steering committee whose

The Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) was featured today on a high-level panel at the Paris Peace Forum. Participants, including the European Commission’s Vice-President Vera Jourova, emphasized the importance of the Initiative to reward reliable journalism and to support a healthier information ecosystem at large. “As disinformation is spreading online, we should offer people better tools

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the decline in the environment for media personnel in Aden, in southern Yemen, where a targeted car bomb attack this week killed a journalist and badly injured her husband, also a journalist. Yemen’s provisional capital, Aden is controlled by the Southern Transitional Council (STC). El Sharq TV correspondent Rasha Abdallah Alharazy was killed

US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a military court three days ago. He was “pardoned” before being freed on “humanitarian grounds”, the military government said. The release was secured after negotiations between the junta and former US ambassador to the

The UK’s Supreme Court has rejected a claim that sought billions of pounds in damages from Google over alleged illegal tracking of millions of iPhones. The judge said the claimant had failed to prove damage had been caused to individuals by the data collection. But he did not rule out the possibility of future mass-action

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent investigation into the murder of a non-professional journalist who used his Facebook page to expose the activities of drug traffickers and their accomplices within the local administration in the area where he lived in northwestern Pakistan. Those who ordered this shocking murder must be brought to justice,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an end to Instagram’s censorship of the Tamil Guardian news website, whose account with this Facebook-owned social media platform has been disabled for nearly two weeks. RSF also calls on Facebook to be more transparent in cases like this. The London-based English-language website is one of the main sources