On Tuesday, a noted Palestinian-American journalist reporting live from protests near Jerusalem was suddenly and mysteriously silenced on Twitter —…
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Biden revokes Trump’s social media executive order | Protocol
by Issie Lapowsky
1 day ago
President Biden revoked the Trump-era executive order on "preventing online censorship," which a source told Protocol last summer had been…
Cuban technologists worry politics gets in the way of opening up the internet | Rest of World
by Ricardo Martinez
May 7, 2021
It’s April and the sun rises over Havana at 7:07 a.m. People are already sitting outside their homes chatting about…
Press freedom: how governments are using COVID as an excuse to crack down on the public’s right to know | London School of Economics
by Sara Torsner and Jackie Harrison
April 22, 2021
A government’s fear of scrutiny and criticism often determines how repressive it is toward the press. The greater the fear,…
Why China’s attempts to stifle foreign media criticism are likely to fail | The Conversation
by Tony Walker
April 13, 2021
When China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, summoned journalists to the Chinese embassy last week, this was not an occasion…
Beijing Is Getting Better at Disinformation on Global Social Media | The Diplomat
by Sarah Cook
March 30, 2021
When China-linked networks of social media bots and trolls appeared on the global disinformation scene in 2019, most analysts concluded…
The Real Target of Authoritarian Disinformation | Foreign Affairs
by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren
March 25, 2021
On October 7 of last year, the Twitter account @hakkidin tweeted what appeared to be a heartfelt message of congratulations:…
Twitter is caught between politics and free speech. I was collateral damage. | Columbia Journalism Review
by Salil Tripathi
March 17, 2021
The Babri Masjid—a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in northern India—was a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims for…
Texas Wants to Ban Facebook and Twitter … From Banning | Vice
by Paul Blest
March 9, 2021
The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms. Gov. Greg…
Trigger warning. The CCP’s coordinated information effort to discredit the BBC | Australian Strategic Policy Institute
by Jacob Wallis and Albert Zhang
March 4, 2021
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomatic accounts, Chinese state media, pro-CCP influencers and patriotic trolls are targeting the UK public broadcaster,…