France gags freedom of information
By extending the statute of limitations for insulting and defaming elected representatives, the freedom to inform is threatened. Journalists’ unions denounce this unspeakable infringement of press law.
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Ukraine : For the impartiality of the press. And for the honor of journalists !
Fourteen journalists, former war correspondents of major Italian media, have just written an open letter to denounce the bias of the international press in covering the war in Ukraine.
Covid-19 : the troubled role of the media
Digital mass media and their algorithms are so powerful that they have taken control of ideas and opinions in the world by arbitrarily deciding what is true and what is false. Example with the health crisis.
Albert Londres at the BNF: 140 years later, what have we done with the freedom of the press?
In 2021, the Albert-London Prize coincides with the 140th anniversary of the 1881 law on freedom of the press.
RSF files lawsuit in France accusing Facebook of “deceptive commercial practices”
In a lawsuit filed with the public prosecutor in Paris on 22 march 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses Facebook of “deceptive commercial practices” on the grounds that the social media company’s promises to provide a “safe” and “error-free” online environment are contradicted by the large-scale proliferation of hate speech and false information on its networks.