The rise of “fake news” charges and deliberate disinformation have led to an important counter effort: fact-checking. News agencies, civil society organisations, and...
Google should have known better! An Associated Press piece in The Guardian newspaper (“YouTube fined $170m for collecting children’s personal data”, 4 September 2019) notes a...
Privacy was something that used to be taken for granted. Ordinarily, the private life of an individual was not open to scrutiny, while public...
“For the past twenty years, the main issue restricting ublic debate in terms of Turkish laws has been the prosecution and imprisonment of...
An influential book on communications in the 1980s was Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. It...
In an era when misinformation and “fake news” abound on social media, it is important to understand where people get their news.
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Walk around any city and your face will be caught on camera and might even be added to a facial-recognition database. That data...
There was a mantra among communities and businesses when foreign goods and huge chain stores started crowding out small, local operations. “Buy local”...
Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, writes that the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not...
Accessibility and affordability are watchwords of the communication rights movement. Yet when it comes to digital access, governments have still not got their...
Article 19 – the international freedom of expression organization – has proposed creating Social Media Councils (SMCs) as a way of moderating content...