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Thousands of Facebook users around the world reported issues with their news feeds on Wednesday as a glitch appeared to boost posts to celebrity fan pages and groups to the top of timelines. On Downdetector, an outage tracking website, users posted reports of problems between 07:00 and 09:00 BST. Many reacted to the glitch with […]

Evgeni, Brent, Maks, Pierre, Oleksandra, Oksana, Mantas and Frédéric. Eight journalists – two women and six men. All lost their lives in the six months since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks back at the circumstances of their deaths and points out that killing a journalist who is covering a

PHOTO:Olga Shtonda / OCHA/ 2022 It takes a village There is a saying that goes: It takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it takes a village to support a person in a humanitarian crisis. With record-high humanitarian needs around the world, this year’s World Humanitarian Day (WHD) builds on this metaphor of collective endeavour to

Filings made by Elon Musk’s legal team in his battle with Twitter have been questioned by leading bot researchers.  Botometer – an online tool that tracks spam and fake accounts – was used by Mr Musk in a countersuit against Twitter. Using the tool, Mr Musk’s team estimated that 33% of “visible accounts” on the

Following the departure of the French troops who were in Mali to combat armed Islamist militants in the north of the country, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian authorities to prioritise efforts to obtain the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who will complete his 500th day as the hostage of an

2022-08-18. In recent years, Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), like many publishers, has boosted their reader-revenue efforts by introducing a dynamic metered paywall as well as other areas, such as an online shop. by Brian Veseling brian.veseling@wan-ifra.org | August 18, 2022 They have an online shop that sells a wide variety of products from books, games and

Image: Salma al-Shehab was arrested in January 2021. (CNN)Saudi women’s rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. Al-Shehab, 33, was also banned from traveling outside of Saudi Arabia for another 34 years. The PhD student at Leeds University in the

Image :Journalists take part during a strike to demand justice for murders of journalists in May in Mexico City. Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/eyepix/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Body of Juan Arjón López, 14th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2022, identified by tattoos in border city of San Luis Río Colorado An independent journalist has been found

Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China’s regulators for the first time. Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in – and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms. They are closely guarded by companies. In the US

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by the appointment of Eddie Cheung as the head of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the territory’s former representative to the European Union, who in his previous position was involved in a smear campaign against international media. In July 2022, the Hong Kong government announced the departure of Radio