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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 […]

A brutal mob killing of a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has sparked protests in both countries, with Pakistan’s leader condemning the vigilante violence. Priyantha Diyawadanage, 48, a factory manager in the city of Sialkot, was beaten to death on Friday and his body set alight. More than 100 people have been

2021-12-01. Jimmy Lai and the staff of Apple Daily Hong Kong have faced harassment, arrest and prison time in their quest for press freedom. They’re this year’s winners of the WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom award. By Colette Davidson Until its final print edition on 24 June 2021, Apple Daily was one of Hong Kong’s most

2021-11-24. A new documentary, “Missing from the Broch: The Disappearance of Shaun Ritchie,” helped Scottish group DC Thomson Media reach record engagement levels. Just over seven years ago, a 20-year-old man named Shaun Ritchie went missing after attending a party on Halloween night 2014 at a remote farmhouse in Scotland. His disappearance led to one

As in previous years, this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women launches 16 days of activism to be concluded on the 10th of December 2020 — the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day. Several public events are being coordinated and iconic buildings and landmarks will be ‘oranged’ to recall the need

After last week’s forcible arrests of three photo-journalists by soldiers and many other cases of reporters being obstructed near Poland’s border with Belarus, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Polish parliament to lift all restrictions on the media so that they can cover the migrant crisis. Powerless, with their hands handcuffed above their heads,

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