The parliament in Poland passed on Aug. 11 a new media ownership law that opponents said was an attempt to silence the country’s largest remaining independent TV station. In the 460-seat lower house of the Polish parliament, lawmakers approved the …
A civil court in Thailand ordered on Friday the suspension of the government’s directive to criminalize the dissemination of “false news” or stories that could prompt public panic. The ruling came after several media groups decided to file a petition …
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced that censorship guidelines would go into effect for the local film industry to ensure that it would not threaten national security. “When considering a film as a whole and its …
Popular websites and apps around the world were knocked offline because of an widespread internet outage with the Fastly content delivery network (CDN). Users were unable to access the sites and apps or saw an “Error 503” message. Websites operated …
Kumerra Gemechu, a Reuters cameraman who has covered the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia has been arrested last December 28 by police for unknown reasons.
US tech giant Facebook formally accused rival Apple of engaging in anticompetitive practices on Wednesday afternoon, in what has been the latest shot in the months-long standoff between the two companies over Apple’s planned privacy changes for iOS14.
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy figure Jimmy Lai was taken into custody by Hong Kong police after he has been denied bail after being charged with fraud.
French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo featured a caricature of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan lifting a dress of a woman to reveal her backside in response to the leader’s call to boycott French products.