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A Moscow court has fined Google 7.2bn roubles ($98m; £73m) for repeated failure to delete content deemed illegal in Russia. Details of the offending content were not specified in the announcement by the court’s press service. This is the first time in Russia that a technology giant has been hit with a fine based on […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Polish President Andrzej Duda to veto a media law amendment that would enable the government to take control of TVN, Poland’s leading independent TV network. Passed by parliament last week, the amendment restricting foreign ownership of Poland’s broadcast media would force TVN’s American owners to sell their controlling stake

Move over Google, TikTok is the world’s new most popular online destination. The viral video app gets more hits than the American search engine, according to Cloudflare, an IT security company. The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the top spot in February, March and June this year, and has held the number one

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After repeatedly targeting the biweekly newspaper L’Alternative in recent years with administrative sanctions, judicial proceedings and surveillance, Togo’s authorities have finally jailed its editor, Ferdinand Ayité. Attempts have often been made to intimidate Ayité during his 20 or so years as a journalist but this is the first time he has found himself in a

2021-12-21. WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum are alarmed at the passing of a controversial media bill in Poland, which if signed into law, will have the effect of silencing critical media. If adopted, the legislation will tighten rules of foreign ownership of media and ​would make it illegal for any non-European company to hold

2021-12-21. In Denmark, publisher-owned distributors disseminate more than 99 percent of newspapers. With the impending merger of distribution companies Bladkompagniet and DAO, Danish publisher JP/Politikens Hus is set to become the majority shareholder in the merged entity. Distribution is no easy business. Rising costs and troubles in staffing the operations had created challenges for several

Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip, a Cameroonian newspaper editor who was detained in a completely arbitrary manner for 16 months and had to spend a further week in prison after his acquittal, has finally been freed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes his release but fears further proceedings against this journalist. The editor of the newspaper Climat Social,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges for the release of Uyghur journalist Yidiresi Aishan, who is facing extradition to China despite the cancellation of the Interpol “red notice” calling for his arrest. On 16th December, the United Nations called on the government of Morocco to halt the extradition to China of Uyghur journalist Yidiresi Aishan, 33, citing the risk