The White House announced this week it was launching a sort of hotline for people to report their experiences of censorship on social media....
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Spotlight on threats against journalists in Malta in European report (The Shift News, 10 May 2019)
“Burned in effigy. Insulted. Menaced. Spat at. Discredited by their nation’s leaders. Assaulted. Sued. Homes strafed with automatic weapons. Rape...
Is the end of free speech a natural solution to the hatred shared online? (Metro, 8 May 2019)
The internet has a problem with hate speech. So wouldn’t it be easier to just turn it all off? Would limiting what people can say really stop the...
UK tax researcher fired from think tank for tweeting that ‘men cannot change into women’ (Christian Post, 8 May 2019)
For saying that males who identify as trans are not women, an internationally renowned tax expert was fired and is contesting her termination in...
From A Turkish Prison To Tate Modern: The Story Of Zehra Doğan, The Kurdish Artist And Journalist Endorsed By Banksy And Ai Wei Wei (Run Riot, 7 May 2019)
Zehra Doğan was released from prison on 24 February 2019. She was jailed over a painting she adapted from a Turkish army photograph where she...
Tax expert Maya Forstater fired for saying trans women aren’t women (The Times, 5 May 2019)
An internationally renowned researcher on tax avoidance is believed to be the first person in Britain to lose her job for saying that transgender...
What is left of a free Press? (Buenos Aires Times, 4 May 2019)
The last and really big incident was the murder in Pinamar on January 25, 1997, of Noticias reporter and photographer José Luis Cabezas, aged 36,...
Jeremy Hunt’s sudden enthusiasm for media freedom is welcome – but the UK should look at its own track record first (Independent, 2 May 2019)
With press freedom and journalists under attack all over the world, foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to make global media freedom his...
Permissão para se expressar (Crusoe, 26 April 2019)
Jodie Ginsberg, diretora da Index of Censorship, que monitora casos de censura pelo mundo, teme que estejamos caminhando para uma situação em que...
Search for the Huawei leaker by all means, but don’t threaten a free press in the process (The Telegraph, 26 April 2019)
Last summer, Northern Irish journalist Barry McCaffrey had his home raided by armed police. As families readied their children for school, McCaffrey...
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