Target Twitter: Turkey’s Government’s War on Social Media
Last week, the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayjip Erdogan became the latest regime to attempt to stem the social media Twitter tide. What… Read More
U.S. Press Freedom 2014: Much Is in the Eye of the Beholder
The headline from “World Press Freedom 2014,” published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB), was grave: The United States has plummeted in its rankings of 180… Read More
Turkey: Erdogan Government’s War on Media
Hundreds of brave journalists in Turkey took to the streets of Istanbul this week to protest new laws tightening censorship of the Internet. In early… Read More
Syria: Social Media Step in Where Journalists Must Fear to Tread
Informing the world about the atrocities of the civil war raging in Syria is deadly dangerous business. On October 15, yet another two reporters and… Read More
“We Fight Censorship” a Promising Step for Information Freedom
On November 27, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) launched a revolutionary website, appropriately named We Fight Censorship (WeFC), devoted to publishing content by victims of censorship…. Read More
Internet Freedom and YouTube Under Attack
On September 27, Reporters Without Borders issued a report on the threat to Internet freedom that focused on the relationships of Google and YouTube in… Read More
Bahrain vs. the Media
Since the uprising erupted last year, Bahrain has continued to experience unrest. Despite continuing reforms by the government, the opposition movement has steadily hardened its… Read More
