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AEJ open letter to EU on Pegasus scandal

(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

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

(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?

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

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

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

(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

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

Former presidential adviser in France falls victim to fake news ES Vienna, May 20, 2021

CoE : abuse of media linked to “democratic backsliding”

  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,...

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