Instagram’s chief Adam Mosseri has called on US lawmakers to help regulate the platform. He made the remarks on Wednesday during a Senate hearing which examined the harmful impact of social media on the mental health of teen users. Mr Mosseri argued that Instagram is actively working to address the app’s negative effects. However, he […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by yesterday’s murder of Jesus Yutrago Malabanan, a Philippine reporter for national and international news media who had to relocate three years ago after being threatened in connection with his reporting on the drug war. A team of investigators must be sent immediately to gather evidence while still fresh
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Your right, your role: Say no to corruption Corruption affects all areas of society. Preventing corruption unlocks progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, helps protect our planet, creates jobs, achieves gender equality, and secures wider access to essential services such as healthcare and education. While it is everyone’s right to benefit from strong anti-corruption efforts,
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Far-right groups are using Twitter’s new private media policy to target anti-extremism accounts, activists say. The social media giant last week said images or video of private individuals shared without permission would be removed on request. Activists report that members of the far-right are using the policy to have accounts identifying them suspended. Twitter said
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) sounds the alarm about an escalation in the military junta’s use of terror against journalists in Myanmar after two journalists with the Myanmar Pressphoto Agency were physically attacked and injured, and then arrested, while covering an anti-regime protest on Sunday in Yangon, the country’s leading city. One of the two journalists,
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OBC Transeuropa from Italy, the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re : Baltica from Latvia, and Fundacja Reporterow (FR) from Poland have been awarded a combined total of 75.000 EUR to enhance collaborative and investigative journalism in the Baltic States, Visegrád Four and Southern Europe. The grants are part of the “Collaborative and Investigative Journalism
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) call for an immediate end to the Israeli travel bans that prevent dozens of Palestinian journalists, including Majdoleen Hassona, winner of this year’s RSF Press Freedom Prize for Independence, from leaving the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The travel ban placed on Majdoleen Hassona two
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The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to two journalists in Oslo, Norway on 10 December, the Philippines’ Maria Ressa and Russia’s Dmitri Muratov, who together embody all of the threats to journalism. The worst of which is murder. More than 1,600 journalists have been killed in the past 20 years, 46 of them in
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) set up a Health Journalism Forum in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a platform for health reporters to engage in discussions of topical interest. These discussions with subject experts and colleagues in journalism are to strengthen and improve health journalism in Sri Lanka and further professionalize
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Donald Trump’s new social media firm says it has entered into agreements to raise $1bn (£755m) from investors ahead of a planned stock market listing. The Trump Media & Technology Group is working to launch a social media app called Truth Social early next year. It comes as Mr Trump remains banned from Twitter and
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