Sachini Kavindya

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

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,

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

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

With two journalists said to have “promoted terrorism” due to appear before an Addis Ababa court today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Ethiopian authorities to free all arbitrarily detained journalists and to stop bringing baseless accusations against them with the aim of deterring them from covering the 17-month-old civil war. Amir Aman Kiyaro,