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...
Getting real about rule of law in Europe
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London / Brussels. September 22, 2021
from William Horsley, Special Representative for Media Freedom
Today the AEJ joined 60 other journalists' and civil society groups in...
In the thick of it – journalists in Afghanistan
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Kabul/ Vienna. September 22, 2021 (links updated 03/10/21)
Fearing for their lives, 100 colleagues and media workers communicate frenetically in a WhatsApp group about how...
EU needs proper powers to protect media – AEJ
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London/ Brussels. September 16, 2021
by William Horsley, AEJ Media Press Freedom Representative
For years the European Commission has been criticized for inaction in the face...
Surviving 50 years of spoofs, exposés, and libel actions
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Vienna/ London. September 13, 2021
by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen
The satirical London publication Private Eye, on the eve of celebrating (along with the AEJ) its half-century,...
Belarus – tale of two tyrannies
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September 9, 2021
from ES and Mark Porter, Ile Rousse, Corsica
As the world focusses on Afghanistan, and the new Taliban government's suppression of women's rights ...
Surfing tide of fakes – the onward nonsense of RT Deutsch
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Unapologetic face of RT Deutsch - looking for "losers who have something to say". See below
Cannes, September 7, 2021
from Mark Porter
While a senior BBC...
Taking the temperature of EU’s problem members
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Vienna, September 6, 2021
EU “must stop threatening to kick Members out”
by Edward Steen, Sec-General
In an illuminating interview with Brigitte Rambossek (AEJ Austria Section) on...