Within the framework of their December 2021 joint mission, MFRR and RSF have concluded that the main challenges that the Greek independent media landscape has been facing, including the increase of the reporters’ insecurity, impediments to public interest journalism, and abusive lawsuits constitute systemic issues which call for public action. In light of these considerations, […]
Despite promises to the contrary, TikTok is feeding false and misleading content about the war in Ukraine to its users, according to an investigation by NewsGuard. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on social media platforms in general and TikTok in particular to modify their algorithms. Who would have thought that users of TikTok, a social
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Two Ukrainian journalists and three foreign journalists have been killed in the course of their work in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian and Ukrainian authorities to guarantee the safety of media personnel in Ukraine. Attacking journalists is a war crime. Читать
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Cambodia’s information ministry to immediately restore the licences it withdrew from three online media outlets for alleged ethical violations after they covered corruption cases. The ministry failed to follow procedure when it revoked the licences and its accusations are spurious, RSF says. With no prior warning and no possibility
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European lawmakers have agreed on new rules which they hope will curb the dominance of Big Tech companies. Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), giants such as Google and Apple will be forced to open up their services and platforms to other businesses. Major technology firms have long faced criticism that they use their market
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) used its Operation Collateral Freedom mirror site technology today to enable access to German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s Russian-language news website, which the Kremlin had been blocking within Russia since 4 March. Before it was blocked, Deutsche Welle’s Russian-language site was one of the most popular news sites in Russia, with an
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Ever since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian armed forces have been bullying and threatening journalists and local media in the conquered territories to prevent them reporting the facts and get them to spread Kremlin propaganda. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns these acts of intimidation, which include abduction, and calls on the
A Russian reporter has died after coming under Russian shelling while she filmed destruction at a shopping centre in Kyiv, becoming at least the fifth journalist to a month since Moscow’s invasion on 24 February. Oksana Baulina, who previously also worked for the Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was killed alongside another civilian
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Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova spoke at the Paris headquarters of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) yesterday about her decision to resign as Paris correspondent of Russia’s state-owned Pervi Kanal (Channel One television) and about her experiences behind the scenes at the Kremlin’s No. 1 media outlet. “This is an extremely powerful moment of truth at a
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has reconstructed an exclusive two-year timeline of government assault on Hong Kong’s press freedom following the Chinese regime’s enactment of the National Security Law in 2020. 15th April 2020 – The head of China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, calls for the rapid passing of a national security law designed to eradicate the
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