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Focus Tag: Censorship
Russia’s Telegram crackdown is putting obstacles in the path of investigative journalists | Coda Story
by Alexandra Tyan
July 26, 2021
In December 2020, a Bellingcat investigation into the apparent attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny revealed the identities of Kremlin secret…
Police in Latin America are turning activists’ phones against them | Rest of World
by Leo Schwartz
July 19, 2021
In late April, a wave of protests swept across Colombia, sparked by a proposed tax reform measure that many people…
Welcome to TikTok’s endless cycle of censorship and mistakes | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
July 16, 2021
It’s not necessarily a surprise that these videos make news. People make their videos because they work. Getting views has…
Did Cuba really shut down the internet to quell protests? | Rest of World
by Hannah Berkeley Cohen
July 14, 2021
During Sunday’s historic nationwide protests in Cuba — the largest since 1994 — people of all ages amassed on the…
Kazakhstan’s Vibrant Alternative Media Is Thriving—and in Trouble | Foreign Policy
by Sher Khashimov and Raushan Zhandayeva
July 13, 2021
In Kazakhstan this week, the film director Oliver Stone presented his latest documentary, Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, an…
Trump et al. are misinformed about fact-checking and the Constitution | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas
July 9, 2021
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, claiming he was “censored” by those companies for not…
Punitive laws are failing to curb misinformation in Africa. Time for a rethink. | The Conversation
by Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Alan Finlay, and Anya Schiffrin
June 25, 2021
Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it was intended to mislead, has long been recognised…
A Eulogy for the Free Press in Hong Kong | The Atlantic
by Timothy McLaughlin and Rachel Cheung
June 25, 2021
On the morning of July 1, 2020, newsstands across Hong Kong had a conspicuously uniform appearance. At least eight major…
I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media. | Rest of World
by Mariam Barghouti
June 24, 2021
On June 6, I woke up to a notification on WhatsApp: Muna el-Kurd had been detained by Israeli police in…