AEJ open letter to EU on Pegasus scandal
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(ES) Athens/ Vienna July 21, 2021
Open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, Commission President and Vice-President Vera Jourova
The Israeli security company NSO has sold...
A false start and Johnson govt’s assault on truth
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London/ Vienna July 3, 2021
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
As if Brexit, a pandemic, and an economic crisis were not enough, UK media journalists now face...
Be nastier – and make social media even richer
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(es) Cambridge / Vienna June 30, 2021
Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral – revealing social media’s 'perverse incentives',...
After the Joe and Vlad show – what exactly?
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Vienna, June 25, 2021
from Edward Steen, S-G.
The Biden-Putin summit in Geneva 10 days ago was dismissed by the Russian president as "Hollywood". He was...
On the frontline against armies of trolls
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from Mark Porter (Austrian Section) in Cannes. June 23, 2021
As chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times Christina Lamb has dodged bullets and bombs,...
Freedom vs Fakes – an expert´s guide
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Sofia, June 06, 2021
by Irina Nedeva, AEJ Special Representative for Disinformation
Media literacy does not merely concern how the general public consumes media or distinguishes...
How online nonsense can make you very rich
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(es) Vienna, May 24
UK Press Gazette last June published an article that did a thorough job of describing how nonsense enriches both Silicon Valley...
On the trail of Q
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Bellingcat people must be mathematical geniuses + have the patience of saints....On the trail of Q
The first open QAnon believer in US Congress
Satire about...
Attali falls victim to fake news
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Former presidential adviser in France falls victim to fake news
ES Vienna, May 20, 2021
CoE : abuse of media linked to “democratic backsliding”
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wh London/ Strasbourg, May 11, 2021
The Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, said today that increasing violence against journalists, including murders,...