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Contents – Unsung heroes: How musicians are raising their voices against oppression
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CATEGORY: United States
Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
The reappearance of Stalin’s ghost in modern Russia
Denouncements of citizens for anti-Russian sentiment and punitive psychiatry are rising in the former Soviet Union
Democracy, but not as we know it
Donald Trump’s re-election is indicative of a broader global trend towards a new age of veiled authoritarianism.
Who will protect freedom of expression now?
What terrible things will happen while we are all distracted by the clown in the White House?
Donald Trump’s re-election is disastrous for free speech
Today is a day of despair – but it is also a day for those of us who genuinely care about free expression to come together to protect and promote it
On the brink
Freedom and democracy are on the ballot in the US presidential election
Contents – Inconvenient truths: How scientists are being silenced around the world
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All the news that’s fake to print
Index on Censorship’s new editor rounds up the stories that have made headlines this week including disinformation around the Florida hurricane
Two plus two equals five in US presidential debate
The adjective Orwellian is overused but the surreal ABC News debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris can only be described that way
Smears about the media made by US President Donald Trump have obscured a wider problem with press freedom in the United States: namely widespread and low-level animosity that feeds into the everyday working lives of the nation’s journalists, bloggers and media professionals. This study examines documented reports from across the country in the six months leading up to the presidential inauguration and the months after. It clearly shows that threats to US press freedom go well beyond the Oval Office.
“Animosity toward the press comes in many forms. Journalists are targeted in several ways: from social media trolling to harassment by law enforcement to over-the-top public criticism by those in the highest office. The negative atmosphere for journalists is damaging for the public and their right to information,” said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO at Index on Censorship, which documented the cases using an approach undertaken by the organization to monitor press freedom in Europe over the past three years. Learn more.