Battlers against fake news win top journalism prize
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Vienna, November 12, 2021
by Edward Steen
The Kaiser Maximilian Award for a project called "Fake News
The Austrian non-profit project "(#EuropagegenCovid19 / #EUmythbusters) has been awarded...
Pro-Russia journalists accuse Ukrainian president of cleansing dissonant voices
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Cannes, October 22
by Mark Porter
Ukrainian journalists linked to an oligarch friend of the Russian president Vladimir Putin have appealed to Europe’s top human rights...
Austrian Chancellor resigns – or does he?
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Vienna, October 10, 2021 (updated 12/10)
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
The tainted Austrian Wunderkind politician Sebastian Kurz, 35, resigned last night under massive pressure over corruption...
Does Nobel Prize for two journalists really help us? Yes.
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London, October 2021
by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom representative
The Norwegian Nobel Committee's award of the Peace Prize to Dmitry Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta...
Too much news….not enough independent newspapers
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Vienna, October 9, 2021
from Edward Steen, Secretary-General
The world has turned upside down, as I am not the first to notice. The news jungle has...
Putin’s Ukrainan nexus: Who’s Who? And what’s coming next…
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Kiev, October 4, 2021
by Ivan Verstyuk
Relations between Russia and Ukraine have never been easy. Since independence, Ukraine and its territory have been the focus...
Were we right all along about Facebook? Probably
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Vienna, October 7, 2021 (updated 20/10/21
by Edward Steen Secretary-General
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a Waterloo of his own making - the testimony on Capitol Hill...
Fourth Estate hits back with mega-investigation
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Vienna, October 3, 2021 (updated 05/10/2012)
by ES, Secretary-General
The biggest data leak in history - 11.9m files from companies hired by wealthy clients to create...
Trolling – it’s mostly about money and spite
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Vienna, September 26, 2021
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
Trolling is about political manipulation. Troll-farms in North Macedonia and elsewhere serve, or served, both Trump and Vladimir...
Bulgarian Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views
It's not everyday that a Facebook network pushing disinformation involves a Spanish-language telenovela.
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Image via Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
A network of Bulgarian Facebook pages with hints...