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CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Join the youth advisory board
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from January to June 2018.
Six times Facebook ignored their own community standards when removing content
Facebook has received much criticism recently around the removal of content and its lack of transparency as to the reasons why
Article 13: Monitoring and filtering of internet content is unacceptable
Index on Censorship joined with 56 other NGOs to call for the deletion of Article 13 from the proposal on the Digital Single Market.
Jamie Bartlett: Encryption is for everyone, not just extremists
Terrorists are using encrypted messaging apps. Drug dealers are using the Tor browser. But don’t forget: so are activists and journalists
Honouring Bassel Khartabil, Syrian digital activist
Index on Censorship mourns the death of 2013 Freedom of Expression Digital Activism Award-winning Bassel Khartabil, who had been held Syrian prisons since 2012.
Al Jazeera debate at Frontline Club descends into shouting match
A debate at the Frontline Club last night on the future of Al Jazeera, following recent calls for the network to be shuttered by a group of seven Arab countries, did not go to plan
Reporting from Ukraine’s separatist areas is becoming more difficult
Journalists are facing increased difficulties and monitoring when reporting from two self-proclaimed republics in Ukraine’s separatist areas.
Abduction, torture and intimidation: Azerbaijan’s endless crackdown on independent journalism
Media outlets in Azerbaijan routinely deal with torture, assault, raids, imprisonment and endless intimidation, as verified reports submitted to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project show.
Mapping Media Freedom: Ukrainian journalists subjected to malicious cyber-attacks
Alongside the digitalisation of journalism comes the increasing danger of cyber-attacks on media workers, as recent attacks on Ukrainian journalists have shown