Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the historic nature of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which is due to be adopted by the end of June following the latest negotiations, but also points its insufficiency. Although the DSA incorporates many of RSF’s proposals for regulating the information chaos caused by the leading online platforms, major issues […]
On 4 May, UNESCO New Delhi, in collaboration with the European Union Delegation for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) organized a regional event to commemorate the 2022 World Press Freedom Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event aimed to provide a platform for advocacy and engagement with the media stakeholders to
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The shock at the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter has highlighted the legal void surrounding the major online platforms in the United States. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the US to finally enable itself to impose online safeguards as the European Union is about to do with its Digital Services Act (DSA).
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2022-05-05. In the build-up to this year’s World News Day on 28 September, a global campaign by the World Editors Forum and Canadian Journalism Foundation o show journalism makes a difference, we will be going #BehindTheHeadlines to highlight stories, like this one from The Quint, India, that have had a significant social impact. The Quint
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Personal contact information such as your phone number, email or home address, can now be removed from Google search results. Previously, individuals could remove links to contact information when it had been published maliciously – so-called “doxxing”. Now people can request removal if it poses other risks, for example of “harmful direct contact”. Google warns
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On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and nine other human rights organizations ask Indian authorities to stop targeting journalists and online critics for their work. More specifically, they should stop prosecuting them under counterterrorism and sedition laws. India is ranked 150th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2022 World Press Index released today. The Indian authorities should
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On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, the undersigned civil society organizations draw the attention of public authorities and society to the risks of press freedom violations during this election year in Brazil. Access to information is a fundamental human right for the exercise of citizenship and the strengthening of democracy. In addition to their
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The 20th World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals a two-fold increase in polarisation amplified by information chaos – that is, media polarisation fuelling divisions within countries, as well as polarisation between countries at the international level. Читать на русском / Read in Russian The 2022 edition of the World Press Freedom
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2022-04-29. Many countries may have relaxed their pandemic restriction, but a return to the newsroom full-time, at least for the time being, doesn’t seem on the cards for many organisations. Still, there is much to be said about the benefits of a physical space to collaborate, brainstorm, and break news. During WAN-IFRA’s virtual Newsroom Summit conference, executives
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2022-04-28. WAN-IFRA’s Women in News held a three-day training on the coverage of general elections as part of its coaching efforts to help young journalists navigate through one of Lebanon’s most controversial and divisive polls. The multi-faceted sessions conducted on April 19, 20 and 21 at Saint George University in Beirut covered the complex electoral law, challenges
