Sachini Kavindya

Facebook’s “wall of secrecy” is being demolished, thanks to whistleblowers such as Frances Haugen, MP Damian Collins has said. Her revelations, coupled with the company’s “inaccurate evidence” to politicians, meant regulators must act, he said. Mr Collins leads a group of MPs working on a law that will give the UK’s media regulator powers over […]

2021-10-06. WAN-IFRA, the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) call on Pakistani authorities to retract plans to establish the ‘Pakistan Media Development Authority’ (PMDA) that risks placing strict state control over all media. Under the pretence of “simplifying procedures and fighting disinformation”, the proposed changes to current frameworks aim to

2021-10-06. Two experiments with producing audio content illustrate the challenges and opportunities for news publishers in this booming space. The Irish Times’ ‘Listen’ project leans on AI-driven audio articles, while Google’s collaboration with The Guardian and The Royal Institute of Blind People with ‘Auditorial’ shed light on how publishers should not ignore vision-impaired readers. The

Facebook has apologised after it stopped working for users around the world for several hours on Monday. WhatsApp and Instagram – which are owned by the company – were also down. What was the problem? In a nutshell, Facebook’s systems stopped talking to the wider internet. It was as if “someone had pulled the cables

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire responds to the editor-in-chief of Chinese official media Global Times, who in a paranoid and incoherent editorial made thinly veiled threats to the organisation. In an editorial published on Saturday, 2nd October, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese official media Global Times, Hu Xijin, violently attacked press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. It blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook’s services, but reportedly also employees’ work passes and email. The services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner organisation, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), condemn the arrest and unwarranted detention of an independent journalist by police in central Somalia’s Galmudug region, and demand his immediate and unconditional release. Mohamed Abdiweli Tohow, a freelance journalist, was arrested at around 9 p.m. on 29 September as

Eight months to the day after the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is providing an update on the terror to which reporters in the field are being subjected, along with video testimony by one of the heroic reporters who, despite all the danger, is still covering this story. In

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sham justice to which a local reporter in southwestern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province was subjected at the ruling party’s behest in a blatant political reprisal after he reported that the authorities were seizing land from people who had farmed it for years. It is hard to imagine a more