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In recent Media Policy Briefings with member Associations, WAN-IFRA was able to explore with Newsguard their findings on the spread of false narratives about Ukraine and its allies, and how business is one of the reasons for the overwhelming success of disinformation on the Internet. by Elena Perotti elena.perotti@wan-ifra.org | July 21, 2022 Months before […]

2022-07-22. Artificial Intelligence isn’t just for big publishers. That’s the key takeaway from two executives working in African media who showcased how they are leveraging the technology during WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Africa conference. 2022-07-22. Artificial Intelligence isn’t just for big publishers. That’s the key takeaway from two executives working in African media who showcased

Image :  U.S. reporter Nicolas Niarchos (left) and Congolese journalist Joseph Kazadi Kamuanga (right) were recently detained in the DRC. Kazadi remains in detention as of Wednesday. (Photo credit withheld) New York, July 20, 2022 – Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should immediately release journalist Joseph Kazadi Kamuanga and ensure the press

The Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has today (20 July 2022) set out a package of measures that take aim at so-called ‘Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation’ (SLAPPs). This includes a new mechanism to allow courts to throw out baseless claims quicker and a cap on costs to prevent the mega-rich, such as Russian oligarchs,

As record temperatures hit much of the UK on Tuesday, tech giants Google and Oracle suffered outages as cooling systems failed at London data centres. Data centres are large highly secure buildings that hold banks of computers and are the powerhouses behind many online services. But the concentrated computing power generates heat so powerful that

2022-07-20. Those who you may consider news thieves could become your most loyal subscribers and significantly increase your advertising revenue. | Sponsored Content by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | July 20, 2022 Who would have thought that having people bypassing your paywall was good? Well, some media outlets have chosen to have more flexible and easier to

Amazon is taking legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups, the BBC has learned. It says the groups are generating fake reviews on Amazon marketplaces in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan. The tech giant says the groups offer money or free goods in exchange for reviews being

Image: AFP Concerned by the French government’s plan to abolish a licence fee that funds France’s public broadcast media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on parliament to establish multiyear funding for the public broadcast media from the state budget to protect them from political pressure, and to create an independent authority to oversee their funding.

Image: Myanmar journalist Nyein Nyein Aye is detained since 15 January 2022. Illustration: Daniel Bastard / RSF Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the three-year jail sentence that a woman journalist held since January has just received from a court in Yangon for spreading “false news,” and calls on UN officials to do something to stop