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Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech (CJR, 17 Jan 2018)
A toxic combination of misinformation, hate speech, and online harassment is pushing several European countries to take action against social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But some believe their actions—however well-intentioned—run...
European Commission pressured by MEPs to protect media from ‘abusive’ high-cost lawsuits (Press Gazette, 17 Jan 2018)
A cross party group of six MEPs have asked the European Commission to introduce legislation protecting independent media against intimidating lawsuits that attempt to bully media into submission. Read the full article
The Lords and Leveson are as bad as each other (Conservative Woman, 17 Jan 2018)
It wasn’t only the EU nomenklatura who had their noses put out of joint in June 2016, when the British people rudely reminded the Euro-emperor of his embarrassing lack of clothes. Many members of the House of Lords, one suspects, equally resented...
Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech (CJR, 17 Jan 2018)
A TOXIC COMBINATION OF MISINFORMATION, hate speech, and online harassment is pushing several European countries to take action against social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But some believe their actions—however well-intentioned—run...
Free expression and anti-corruption groups call for justice for murdered Maltese journalist
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Around seven free expression and anti-corruption groups, and other supporters gathered in London today to remember investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia three months after her tragic murder in Malta,...
Meet Yemen’s street artist: ‘We want peace’ (Middle East Eye, 15 January 2018)
Murad Subay sees the devastated streets and bombed buildings in Yemen's war as something more than just ruins: he sees canvases onto which he can tell stories through art. The award-winning 30-year-old street artist's aim is to spread a message of...
MEPs call on European Commission to protect investigative journalists and stand for media freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MEPs David Casa (EPP), Ana Gomes (S&D), Monica Macovei (ECR), Maite Pagazaurtundúa (ALDE) Stelios Kouloglou (GUE) and Benedek Jávor (Greens) have joined forces to push for EU legislation that will address and...
Index on Censorship joins unprecedented press freedom mission to US
London, 15 January 2018 - A delegation of global press freedom groups will undertake an unprecedented mission to the United States, reflecting concerns about threats to journalists and heightened anti-press rhetoric. The mission will coincide with...
Legal advocates for the arts support Clay, Pulphus (St. Louis American, 12 Jan 2018)
U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and David Pulphus, the young artist whose work he displayed at the U.S. Capitol, are still fighting a legal battle against the Architect of the Capitol, who removed the painting depicting police as animals after...
Chechnya: Immediately release human rights defender Oyub Titiev
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), are deeply concerned at reports of the arrest of Oyub Titiev, head of Human Rights Center Memorial’s Grozny office in Chechnya on highly dubious narcotics charges. We call for his immediate and...
Picking apart propaganda: Past and present
Join Index in an underground nuclear bunker for an exploration of propaganda past and present, as part of Essex Book Festival’s “The Nuclear Option”