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Music platforms — especially Spotify — have faced repeated accusations of political bias, censorship and commercial favoritism in 2025. Critics point to Spotify’s removal or de‑promotion decisions (ar...
The United States ranks in the upper-middle tier on broad, multi-dimensional freedom measures but performs unevenly across different indices: it is tied 17th on the Human Freedom Index (out of ~165 ju...
Canada ranks highly on many global measures — for example it tied for #1 in the Country RepTrak/“Most Loved Country” sentiment survey and sits near the top of reputation and freedom rankings — yet it ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) demonstrates institutional that support trustworthiness claims, including recertification by journalism standards initiatives and an active Ombudsman proces...
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 ...
and are publicly tied as the current Director and Attorney General respectively, frequently appearing jointly at briefings and issuing coordinated statements on high-profile operations, but their part...
George Soros is best known for the Open Society Foundations, but the available materials show he has supported a range of other philanthropic and politically engaged initiatives, including education, ...
Several European public broadcasters reacted to calls to exclude Israeli delegations from cultural events by splitting along political, institutional and ethical lines: a cluster of broadcasters—inclu...
EU-level bans on RT and Sputnik date to March 2022 and prohibit EU operators from broadcasting or facilitating their content; national regulators and internet service providers (ISPs) are responsible ...
U.S. media companies and outlets have been swept into a wave of litigation and settlements tied to political protests, the Trump presidency and disputes over new technologies: major settlements includ...
Elon Musk’s tenure as owner of Twitter/X is marked by conflicting narratives: critics say X dismantled moderation, reinstated banned accounts and approved a higher share of government takedown request...
Authoritarian governments use a mix of technical network controls (DNS/DHCP tampering, IP blocks, deep packet inspection and bandwidth throttling), legal and commercial pressure (laws criminalizing VP...
Independent watchdogs present a mixed but evidence‑based picture: , while several independent reviewers register a modest left‑of‑center tilt in editorial framing. Recent certifications and audits emp...
The courts have repeatedly allowed to press narrow, legally specific challenges to his extradition to —principally that extradition could breach his right to freedom of expression if he were deprived ...
The record assembled from government releases, press freedom groups and reporting shows a sitting president who has repeatedly used executive orders, regulatory leverage, litigation and public pressur...
Donald Trump has repeatedly directed personal insults at specific journalists — notably female White House correspondents such as Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey, ABC’s Mary Bruce, The New York Times’ Kat...
Controversies at fact‑checking organizations—ranging from ownership and funding opacity to documented plagiarism—have eroded public trust in some audiences and forced changes in editorial practice, bu...
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...
Newsweek states it enforces a strict separation between newsroom and owners, maintaining editorial policies, public disclosures and an editor-in-chief with formal guarantees to protect newsroom autono...
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...