Index/Organizations/Committee to Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists

American nonprofit organization

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Dec 5, 2025
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Why is yahoo biased against trump

Analyses from media-watchers and internal content reviews show recurring findings: Yahoo’s politics pages and curated products tend to feature more left‑leaning sources and headlines, and third‑party ...

Dec 4, 2025
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Is the media overwhelmingly biased and anti trump?

Major news outlets and many press-watch groups say the Trump White House has launched a publicly visible “media bias” tracker that names and shames reporters and outlets; watchdogs including the Commi...

Jan 11, 2026
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Can a journalist encourage illegal activity

A journalist cannot rely on the First Amendment as a blanket shield for encouraging or participating in illegal activity; legal precedent and professional ethics draw lines between reporting wrongdoin...

Dec 10, 2025

Is china as oppressive as western media says or is it propaganda?

Western governments, major human-rights NGOs and watchdogs document widespread repression in China: credible reports say hundreds of thousands were interned in Xinjiang, media and internet are tightly...

Jan 26, 2026

In which country Highest number of journalists killed

In short timeframes covering 2023–2025, (notably ) — and by extension actions by i forces — accounted for the single highest number of journalists killed, according to multiple press‑freedom monitors ...

Jan 22, 2026

Does hamas intimidate and control media reporting and reporters

exerts both direct and indirect pressure on journalism in : reporters say they face intimidation, physical assaults, and area restrictions from Hamas-affiliated security forces, and analysts document ...

Dec 14, 2025

Which social media accounts drove the spread of Venezuelan influence claims after the 2020 election?

After the 2020 U.S. election, claims that Venezuela helped steal or manipulate the vote propagated widely through social media channels connected to the Trump campaign, allied political actors, and sy...

Nov 30, 2025

west bank killings in november 2025 by settlers

November 2025 saw a sharp surge in violent incidents by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank, including arson, attacks on villages and journalists, and repeated incidents that Israeli offici...

Feb 3, 2026

How have federal courts treated searches and seizures of journalists' phones and devices in leak or protest investigations?

Federal courts have treated of journalists’ phones and devices as legally permissible in narrow circumstances but subject to heightened scrutiny and procedural safeguards, producing a patchwork of out...

Jan 12, 2026

Which journalists have publicly documented sustained harassment after being named by political figures?

Journalists across democracies and authoritarian states have publicly documented sustained harassment after being singled out or named by political figures; prominent, well-documented examples include...

Dec 16, 2025

This site is bias and ignores questions when prompted

You are not alone: users across large Q&A sites report many legitimate reasons their questions go unanswered — volume, tagging, and interface settings — rather than a coordinated “ignoring” conspiracy...

Dec 16, 2025

Can’t even answer the question without hard core bias.

You say “Can’t even answer the question without hard core bias.” That frustration echoes a broader debate about who labels what “biased.” The White House launched a media-bias portal Dec. 1, 2025, tha...

Dec 14, 2025

Is Israel and russia committing warcrimes.

United Nations and major rights groups have documented credible allegations that both Israel and Russia have committed actions that may amount to war crimes or other international crimes: the UN Secre...

Dec 13, 2025

about 60% of the people defined as journalist in gaza were hamas

A study by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reviewed 266 people described as “journalists or media workers” killed in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and late Nov. 2025 and conclu...

Dec 5, 2025

Are there recent high-profile cases of foreign journalists or tech workers detained or expelled from Russia?

Yes. Reporting shows multiple high‑profile cases in recent years: US Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was tried and sentenced on espionage charges in Russia (cited by UN experts) and doze...

Dec 5, 2025

Have Russia's rules for foreign journalists and tech workers changed since Snowden's arrival?

Russia has tightened rules and penalties for journalists and others labelled “foreign agents” since Edward Snowden arrived in 2013, and those measures accelerated after the 2022 full‑scale invasion of...

Dec 4, 2025

What legal or political consequences followed journalists challenging the Skrupal Sturgess narrative?

Journalists who questioned elements of the Skripal–Sturgess narrative faced reputational, legal and political fallout in a broader context where press freedom is contested; examples of direct legal re...

Dec 4, 2025

is media bias effecting people's ideas

Media and watchdog groups show clear disagreement about whether and how media bias is shaping public ideas: evidence-gathering projects like Ad Fontes and AllSides map outlets across a left–right spec...

Dec 4, 2025

There is widespread assassination and suppression of journalists in Russia who dissent from state narrative

Independent monitors and press advocates report that Russia is among the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists: CPJ lists dozens killed since 1992 and recorded 59 deaths in its 2025 databas...

Dec 1, 2025

Did Omar get arrested

Reports about “Omar” being arrested refer to multiple different people named Omar in the sources: U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar was arrested in a July 19, 2022 civil‑disobedience protest at the U.S. ...