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...
Call on G7 to evacuate journalists and Afghan helpers
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Photo: Journalist Freshta Farhang, who writes about women’s issues for an online media outlet, sits on her desk in the newsroom, in Kabul, Afganistan,...
Bulgarian Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views
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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...
Kabul – dark “new normal” for journalists and freedom
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London, August 20, 2021
by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative
Afghan journalists and other media workers are among those in greatest danger of violent reprisals...
A new law to shut up US journalists?
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A First Amendment precedent?
by Mark Porter, Cannes, August 19, 2021
In America, it is very hard for government officials to win libel suits. All that...
Polish govt on brink over media clampdown
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(es) Warsaw/ Vienna. August 12, 2021
The Polish governing alliance was today on the brink of collapse over its thinly-disguised attempt to close down the...