by Saskia Rowley | Sep 19, 2022 | Communication Rights
Pursuit of profit and social media algorithms foster and elevate hate into the mainstream. In yet one more example, misogynistic and violent messages made by influencer Andrew Tate, recently banned from social media platforms, were viewed billions of times on TikTok...
by Saskia Rowley | Sep 6, 2022 | Communication Rights
On September 4, 2022, Chilean voters rejected a new proposed constitution that would have set the foundations for a progressive, rights-based, gender-sensitive, decolonial, and ecologically sound form of governance. Despite some gaps in terms of clarity and concerns...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 22, 2022 | Communication Rights
On 5 July 2022, the European Parliament approved the final text of its Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rule book for moderating digital content. The DSA aims to limit the spread of illegal content online and it establishes a new set of obligations for private...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 8, 2022 | Communication Rights
In the Netflix documentary “the most hated man on the Internet”, a mother seeks justice for her daughter and other women whose intimate photos obtained through hacking are posted on a revenge porn website. The magnitude of apathy of the site owner and his upto 350,000...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 28, 2022 | Communication Rights
In Latin America, the “pink tide” governments of the first decade of the 21st Century transformed the movement for communication rights by introducing far-reaching media reform legislation. As the second wave of progressive governments are elected, the region has a...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 27, 2022 | Communication Rights
News fatigue is an age-old phenomenon. Not only do media have a reputation for “moving on” after a catastrophe, but readers, listeners, and viewers have a tendency to get bored. Sadly, extended calamities – the drought in the Horn of Africa, the war in Ukraine – lose...
