Joe Rogan has pledged to try harder to offer more balanced views on his podcast, after he was criticised by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell for helping to spread Covid misinformation. The Canadian musicians asked to have their music pulled from the streaming platform as a result. Spotify has since said it is working to add […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 organisations call for more nations to join the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. In a joint statement published on 27th January 2022, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 human rights NGOs urged
After Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba, the head of the military junta now governing Burkina Faso, failed to give any formal undertaking to protect press freedom in an address to the nation yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the military to allow journalists to work freely and safely. A journalist was injured and two others were
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute is organizing a workshop for youth across the island to train and equip them with basic media literacy and fact-checking skills. Register for the workshop and reserve your seat for the workshop that will be held in your own province. Scan the QR code or click here to join the
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the persecution of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who has been detained in central Nigeria’s Kaduna state for more than 80 days pending a trial that keeps on being postponed although his health is worsening by the day. A reporter for Epoch Times, a conservative international daily based in the United States,
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2021-01-26. New data from a global study analysing sexual harassment in 20 countries finds, on average, 41% of women media professionals have experienced sexual harassment of some kind in the workplace. Women and gender non-conforming media professionals are almost three and a half times more likely to experience harassment than men. The international study documenting the extent of
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On the eve of the first anniversary of the 1 February 2021 coup d’état in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on all multinational corporations still providing Myanmar’s military with direct or indirect economic support to follow the example set by energy giants Chevron and Total, which announced on 21 January that they are terminating
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Google’s “indecision” over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry. It comes as the technology giant said an interest-based user-tracking system, Topics, would now replace its earlier proposal, Floc. One marketing executive said: “This constant indecision does not inspire confidence.” Third-party cookies use people’s browsing history
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The UK government and a coalition of charities are urging the British public to put pressure on Facebook not to introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on its Messenger service. If Facebook rolls out the ultra-secure messaging system, the campaign says, more children will be put at risk from online predators. The public debate is likely to
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on El Salvador’s public prosecutor to open an investigation into the use of the Pegasus spyware to hack into the phones of at least 35 Salvadorean journalists. RSF is also providing recommendations to journalists whose phones may have been infected. According to the findings of an investigation led by the Canadian NGO
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