by Terri Miller | Jul 27, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Digital Justice
“I always felt that African teams got a really bad deal out of the kind of previous World Cups, only five or six teams used to qualify…it’s great to see that some of the African teams have started very well.” British football expert Mark Langdon made this comment in...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 16, 2025 | Comment, Communication Rights
“All the news that’s fit to print” was a motto adopted by American newspaper publisher Adolph S. Ochs – an immigrant from Germany – when he took over The New York Times in 1895. It signified the newspaper’s commitment to accurate, impartial, and ethical news...
by Saskia Rowley | Jan 13, 2025 | Communication Rights
We expected 2025 to be a challenging year for human rights defenders, if only from the global political turmoil U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump is promising. For many, though, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on 7 January that Meta would replace fact checkers on...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 12, 2024 | Communication Rights
Videos of Elon Musk promoting dubious investments. Popular news anchors advertising all manner of products. Seemingly plausible news articles bearing bylines of known journalists. Welcome to the world of AI-enabled misinformation and disinformation that has rapidly...
by Saskia Rowley | Dec 11, 2023 | Communication Rights
A recent webinar co-organized by WACC and the World Council of Churches on the churches’ role in misinformation and disinformation highlighted the dilemmas all of us face to effectively challenge lies online, whether deliberately created or inadvertently shared....