Sachini Kavindya

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the absurd and arbitrary seven-year prison sentence that Dieudonné Niyonsenga, the operator of an online TV channel called Ishema TV, has received from Rwanda’s high court as a result of an appeal by the prosecutor’s office against his acquittal at his initial trial. The authorities must stop persecuting online journalists,

Plans to roll out end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Instagram have been delayed amid a row over child safety. Meta – as Facebook’s parent company is now called – said messaging encryption on the apps would now come in 2023. The process means only the sender and receiver can read messages, but law enforcement or

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the targeted suicide bomb attack that killed a senior journalist and badly injured another in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on 20 November. The attack has been claimed by Al-Shabaab. Radio Mogadishu director Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled and Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame, the director of Somali National Television (SNTV), were travelling together in a car when

On the eve of further hearings in the murder trials of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi and Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Turkish authorities to bring to justice all those who were involved in the murders of these journalists as perpetrators, planners or instigators and to take immediate steps to

Facebook says it is introducing new features to give people more control over what appears in their news feeds. The social network has been under intense scrutiny in recent years for how its algorithms promote content. Now, it says it is testing controls to “adjust people’s ranking preferences” and customise the feed. That includes, for

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Iranian journalist and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi’s violent arrest during an event near Tehran on 16 November to commemorate the more than 1,000 victims of a bloody crackdown on protests in November 2019. Well known for both her articles and her actions in defence of human rights in Iran, Mohammadi is

Facebook has written to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), demanding that it stop setting up fake profiles to conduct surveillance on users. This comes after the Guardian revealed that the US police department had been working with a tech firm, analysing user data to help solve crimes. Facebook expressly prohibits the creation and use of fake

2021-11-17. Content Management Systems used to be relatively straightforward affairs, but as modern newsrooms publish a wider variety of forms of content (audio, video, text, images) across a wider range of internal and external platforms and devices, the demands on the modern CMS have grown exponentially. In a new report, we asked publishers for their