by Saskia Rowley | Sep 14, 2020 | Communication Rights
Free Press and four allies have filed a lawsuit (27 August 2020) challenging an order against social media companies. The US District Court, Northern District of California, will hear a complaint against President Trump’s “Executive Order on Preventing Online...
by Saskia Rowley | Sep 7, 2020 | Communication Rights
How can news organizations practice diversity and how can newsmakers contribute to overcoming division and exclusion? A digital panel session discussed these questions as part of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum 2020. It focused on the...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 31, 2020 | Communication Rights
Media freedom is the freedom to protest. “Hong Kong has long been respected as a powerful global economic hub and lively political and democratic space, supported by a proud and strong independent media. Yet the imposition of the new national security law… has...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 24, 2020 | Communication Rights
A new law in Tanzania tightens controls on cooperation between local and international media outlets. Under new regulations announced by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, which came into force on 10 August 2020, local media must now seek government...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 17, 2020 | Communication Rights
There are laws about what can be seen or said in public. So why don’t they apply to social media? In principle they do. The problem is enforcing them. In part it’s a problem of scale. 149 million people login to YouTube daily, to which some 300 hours of video are...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 10, 2020 | Communication Rights
There is nothing new about hate speech. What has changed is the mode of delivery. In Nazi Germany, it was state-controlled newspapers and radio. At the time of the genocide in Rwanda, it was a radio station run by the Hutu government. Today, it is social media, until...
