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Our work isn’t always popular. It can infuriate those in power who want to cover up incriminating truths about the past and current trends in sta...
Video recording police isn’t the equivalent of throwing a Molotov cocktail at them, no matter what Kristi Noem says.
Freedom of the Press
Recording police is ‘violence’? Absolutely not.
Now the Trump administration is trying to destroy the right to document police by labeling it as an attack
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Freedom of the Press
ICE revives contract for spyware
Targeted malware is the sharpest edge of the spear, but simple steps also do a great deal to lower your risk of attack
Noem's complaints underscore why news outlets can't settle frivolous lawsuits. Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5480324-noem-abrego-garcia-cbs-interview-editing/
Great work by RSF for organizing this. It's unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.
RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”
Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling fo...
Charges against Rümeysa Öztürk aren’t true, and U.S. government records can prove it. That’s why we filed a FOIA lawsuit. But the State Department is using FOIA exemptions as an invisibility cloak to hide potentially damning information. We’ll keep fighting.
Freedom of the Press
The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting
If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed
Israel is killing journalists with impunity, and the U.S. supplies it with the weapons used to murder the truth.
AP News
AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say
Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed ...
Illinois strengthened its anti-SLAPP law after a nonsensical court ruling excluded news reporting from the law’s protection. FPF worked with local organizations and lawyers to help fix the mess. Every state needs a strong anti-SLAPP law. https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/pritzker-signs-bill-to-protect-freedom-of-press-illinois-journalists/
“Israel assassinated a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, a young man who had suddenly become the face and voice of the desperate people of his homeland, Gaza…The military made no attempt to obscure this brazen strike on civilians, which is a war crime.”
Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.
"Ahead of the planned invasion of Gaza City, killing Anas Al-Sharif is the latest step in Israel's campaign to erase Gaza's witnesses and prevent accountability." https://www.972mag.com/israel-hamas-journalists-smear-gaza/