Once lauded as bastions of American patriotism, media outlets such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are now being labelled enemies of the state
We speak with the USA-based non-profit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) about the new president’s complicated approach to free expression
With Trump now in office, state and local governments in the USA must push tech companies to protect women’s private data
The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will influence free expression in the “land of liberty”
Are Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced plans to ditch existing fact-checking policies motivated by winning political gain?
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The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
Denouncements of citizens for anti-Russian sentiment and punitive psychiatry are rising in the former Soviet Union
Donald Trump’s re-election is indicative of a broader global trend towards a new age of veiled authoritarianism.
What terrible things will happen while we are all distracted by the clown in the White House?
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.