Committee to Protect Journalists
Turkey Arrests DW Journalist Over Post Criticizing the Courts
The post that got him detained argued that detentions in Turkey no longer follow the rules.
Turkey Detains Journalists For “Disinformation”
A crackdown on the free press.
Zelensky gives his government powers to restrict media, block websites, order Big Tech to censor
A new blow for press freedom.
Iran’s “draconian” internet censorship bill gets pushback
Civil liberties groups highlight the issues.
WhatsApp bans hundreds of Palestinian journalists, reports claim
The world’s most widely used messaging app, Facebook’s WhatsApp, has blocked the accounts of several Palestinian journalists – as this part of the Middle East is experiencing yet another violent flareup in the real world. Morocco World News writes that the decision came on Friday, in the wake o
Twitter is complicit in censorship on behalf of Indian government
Twitter is complying with orders to withhold tweets.
Twitter bans ads from state-controlled media days after report of Hong Kong protest propaganda campaign
The announcement comes less than a week after a news agency founded by the Communist Party of China was found to be running propaganda ads against Hong Kong protestors.
The Julian Assange indictment attempts to make standard investigative journalistic practice look suspicious
Their concerns is precisely that the process described in the charges represents a standard investigative practice employed by reporters, that is not illegal and should not be outlawed.