Sachini Kavindya

Shares in Twitter fell on Monday after Elon Musk announced he was pulling out of a $44bn (£36bn) deal to buy the social media platform. Mr Musk backed away after claiming Twitter failed to provide enough information on the number of spam and fake accounts on the site. Twitter plans to take legal action to […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Bahraini authorities to act responsibly by releasing Abduljalil Al-Singace, a blogger who has been serving a life sentence for the past 11 years and whose health continues to worsen because of the hunger strike he began exactly one year ago. “We must not allow Abduljalil Al-Singace to die

Golden Pen of Freedom laureate and Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has lost her appeal against a cyber libel conviction that also targeted former Rappler researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. by Andrew Heslop andrew.heslop@wan-ifra.org | July 8, 2022 “We are hugely disappointed by this latest decision and stand alongside Maria, Rey, and the entire team at Rappler

Initiatives include joint training of journalists and exploring the application of new technologies. Prominent media groups from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries on Friday committed to stepping up dialogue and finding ways to generate strong synergies as they confront new common challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the impact of

2022-07-07. A renewed appreciation for the physical newsroom, a stronger focus on data, and experimentation with new formats and content. These are some of the changes the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to news organisations in India. by Simone Flueckiger simone.flueckiger@wan-ifra.org | July 7, 2022 WAN-IFRA’s recent Indian Media Leaders eSummit saw a panel of eminent journalists come together to

by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | July 7, 2022 During his daily press conference on 4th July, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador deflected criticism for his responsibility to protect Mexican journalists and dismissed WAN-IFRA as “the type of association that appears only when they don’t like a government or it doesn’t suit them.” “It [WAN-IFRA] protects media in Mexico

Twitter has mounted a legal challenge in India against government orders to take down content. The social media giant has filed a petition with the high court in Karnataka state resisting “several” such orders, sources told the BBC. Twitter was reacting to a letter from the government in June warning of “serious consequences” of non-compliance

Apple has announced a new security feature to protect high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Lockdown Mode will be available in the autumn with the next operating system across all of the company’s iPhones, iPads and Macs. The setting blocks certain functions and prevents unknown users from calling. It comes after Apple devices owned by activists,

After meeting the independent media and the national authorities, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asks the European institutions to mobilize more than ever to save Hungarian journalism.  “Since the new landslide victory of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the general election, the politicized media regulator has taken measures damaging independent radios. The government plans an advertisement