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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Press freedom in Greece is under pressure – from the government and itself
Abuses of power and attacks against the press by both the state and the police, are causing a feeling of...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat's wrong with Jordanian media?
Lack of home coverage of the royal family’s biggest public rift in decades reveals the dire state of access to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisData journalism as tested by the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Italy
The pandemic is without doubt the most data-driven event that has ever occurred
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsWe can’t put internet anonymity in the box marked ‘too hard to solve’
Forthcoming internet legislation ignores anonymity, but this fudge benefits only the social media platforms
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionRepressive governments play whack-a-mole with Africans’ digital rights
A new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWe’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
And here’s what needs to happen now
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Published in: oDR: OpinionHow Zelenskyy can challenge Ukraine's media magnates
The Ukrainian president has promised to curb the power of the pro-Russian oligarchs who control Ukraine’s leading TV...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureHow Lukashenka declared war on Belarusian journalists
Since last year’s disputed elections, and the protests that followed, media workers have become targets for...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisAll Hail Q! The forging of a right-wing religion and its extreme threat to security
Christians across the US, hostile to mainstream media, are being drawn to the movement through trusted church leaders
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisThe free press versus Facebook and Google
Are Facebook and Google the new ‘public square’? Or are they publishers swiping content from others?
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionThe radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeeze
The short squeeze may serve as an example of how the radical Right could flex its muscles and gain strength in the long term
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisIn Lebanon, journalists report attacks and a decline in freedom of speech
Three reporters speak out about being subject to assaults from supporters of the country's major political parties
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Published in: 50.50: NewsopenDemocracy’s feminist investigations team shortlisted for European award
Our Tracking the Backlash team was chosen for revealing the global spread of anti-abortion misinformation that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: ReviewWhy truth is too weak to stop a liar like Boris Johnson
Peter Oborne writes of ‘the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought’. But it’s not just an...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionButantan, Bum Bum Tam Tam and how baile funk might save Brazil
Reviled by elites, this home-grown musical genre is proving an effective weapon in the fight against COVID-19 misinformation
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?
When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: Home: Analysis‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s military
Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs demand answers from Gove over Freedom of Information concerns
Senior Tories to seek answers from Cabinet ministers, after newspaper editors unite behind openDemocracy’s call for...
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Published in: Home: OpinionTrump’s impeachment trial already shows how far US democracy has been undermined
Institutional deadlock in Congress indicates a deeper and far more worrying threat to rational debate among American citizens
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsFleet Street editors unite to demand ‘urgent’ action on Freedom of Information
Gove under pressure as Guardian, Times, Telegraph, FT, Mirror and others sign openDemocracy letter calling for...