March - 2022

The Business of Silencing Journalists And Its Harm to the Democratic Environment

Authored by Demet Altunay In every democratic society, journalists are expected to freely and honestly convey information in the public...

BBC News: Ukraine war - Editor interrupts Russian TV news show.

A woman holding an anti-war sign ran on to the set of a Russian evening news programme on the state-controlled Channel 1 on Monday...

Financial Times: China’s tech platforms become propaganda tools in Putin’s war.

The Ukraine invasion is casting an unflattering light on the role of China’s private technology groups, including Tencent, Sina Weibo and...

The Guardian: Chinese government adviser calls for law to ban ‘fake news’.

An adviser to the Chinese government has called for new laws to ban “fabricating and disseminating fake information online”, blaming the...

Reuters: Russia fights back in information war with jail warning.

Russia's parliament on Friday passed a law imposing a jail term of up to 15 years for spreading intentionally "fake" news about the...

SKY News: [Putin affirms:] Ukrainians have been brainwashed.

Putin again claimed Russia was fighting 'Neo-Nazis', a narrative he has stuck to since he invaded Ukraine.

BBC: Ukraine: Watching the war on Russian TV - a whole different story.

... a snapshot of what ordinary Russians would have picked up, on Tuesday 1 March, while channel-hopping across the country's key TV...