The special report in the winter 2019 edition of Index on Censorship magazine, The Big Noise, focuses on male macho leaders around the world and the bullying tactics they use to suppress free expression. Take our new quiz to see if you can tell your Trumpian tweetstorms from Johnson’s dog whistles, and Orbán’s tirades.

Can you tell your macho men apart?

"Outrageous that married couples should pay for the single mothers' desire to procreate independently of men."

Boris Johnson

Narendra Modi

Jair Bolsonaro

"There is no difference between killing a baby in its mother's stomach and killing a baby after birth."

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Rodrigo Duterte

Donald Trump

"The best migrant is the migrant who doesn't come."

Boris Johnson

Viktor Orbán

Vladimir Putin

"You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write, as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass."

Jair Bolsonaro

Donald Trump

Narendra Modi

"Terrorists and criminals are rewarded in this state these days."

Vladimir Putin

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Narendra Modi

"Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you're a son of a bitch."

Viktor Orban

Boris Johnson

Rodrigo Duterte

"Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves."

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Vladimir Putin

Donald Trump

“I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. …I don't want to sound too much like a chauvinist, but when I come home and dinner's not ready, I'll go through the roof, okay?”

Narendra Modi

Donald Trump

Jair Bolsonaro

"I believe that a strong man makes a strong country."

Rodrigo Duterte

Jair Bolsonaro

Boris Johnson

"If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake."

Viktor Orbán

Vladimir Putin

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Can you tell your macho men apart?

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