The world’s law enforcement services are in cahoots, sharing detailed data about individuals as well as corporations “in the interest of national security”. In...
Pursuit of profit and social media algorithms foster and elevate hate into the mainstream. In yet one more example, misogynistic and violent messages...
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,...
On 5 July 2022, the European Parliament approved the final text of its Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rule book for moderating...
In the Netflix documentary “the most hated man on the Internet”, a mother seeks justice for her daughter and other women whose intimate...
In Latin America, the “pink tide” governments of the first decade of the 21st Century transformed the movement for communication rights by introducing...
News fatigue is an age-old phenomenon. Not only do media have a reputation for “moving on” after a catastrophe, but readers, listeners, and...
Whether inroads are made to reducing violent crime depends to an extent on the media. On 24 May 2022 another massacre of children in...
Some 7,100 languages are spoken in the world today, of which only some 400 are spoken by the great majority of the world’s...
The war in Ukraine and Russian authorities’ move to close independent media and censor news and social media information in the country has...
Communication rights activists are calling for greater accountability from Big Tech and social media platforms. They also want a seat at the table...
Social movements need to embrace participatory media practices to organize in their struggles against an extractivist economic model A hugely significant bill has been...