A flagship report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recorded a historic 10 percent decline in freedom of expression worldwide...
Frankfurt, Germany—Escalating attempts to remove works featuring themes such as LGBTQ lifestyles and race relations from US bookshelves are facing growing resistance from publishers and...
BEIJING – China’s top internet regulator announced Monday a sweeping two-month crackdown on social media, vowing to combat content containing “malicious incitement of conflict”...
Paris, France—More than 100 international media groups and industry bodies urged Washington on Thursday not to slash the time foreign journalists can stay in the...
Stockholm, Sweden—Press freedoms worldwide have declined significantly over the past five years to hit their lowest level in 50 years, a report by a democracy...
This is an AI-generated cartoon with the prompt: A pen-and-ink editorial cartoon in horizontal format. At the center, a birdcage is labeled ‘Press Freedom.’...
BRASILIA – A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has threatened former president Jair Bolsonaro with imprisonment, arguing that the sharing of a speech of his...
Washington, United States—The United States will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans' social media posts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday in...
Meta Platforms, Inc. suspended the Facebook pages of Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) and its affiliates for allegedly promoting hate and harmful racial stereotypes.
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Geneva, Switzerland—The United Nations (UN) rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship," days after Meta scrapped its...
Washington, United States—Tech giant Meta's shock announcement that it is ending its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it...
A standoff between a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and Elon Musk intensified Thursday as the billionaire's Starlink company said its assets had been frozen...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and...
