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June 2024

  • Six circles with headshots of supreme court justices, with 6 under "conservative bloc" and three under "liberal bloc". Six of the headshots are in color, with three grayed out.

    US supreme court allows government to request removal of misinformation on social media

    Court strikes down a lower court ruling, permitting government to call on platforms to remove falsehoods
  • Rock formations in Skazka Canyon, Kyrgyzstan

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

    GeoGPT developed in Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south
    • The Audio Long Read
      Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison – podcast

    • We watched Ivy League law reviews censor Palestinian scholars first-hand

      Erika Lopez and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
    • Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books because it dislikes ideas within

May 2024

  • Man in a suit and tie looks concerned

    Rights groups urge Meta shareholders to end pro-Palestinian content ‘censorship’

  • Illustration of hand stopping speech bubble of female speaker

    Australia’s populist right embraces unconstrained freedom of expression – but only when it suits them

    Julianne Schultz
  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism. Critics say they could violate free speech

  • Brian Logan

    Artists shouldn’t be political? Here’s a show that challenges Britain’s creeping censorship

    Brian Logan
  • YouTube blocks protest anthem in Hong Kong after court order banning the song

  • Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death

  • The long read
    Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

  • Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech

  • Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government

  • Italian government accused of using defamation law to silence intellectuals

  • Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report

April 2024

  • A women holds up placard during a rally to a call for action to end violence against women. The placard reads: 'How many of us have to die?’

    Albanese calls for debate on blocking online misogynistic content at snap national cabinet meeting

  • A man lying down covered in sheets while two police officers watch over him

    First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’

  • Robert Fico

    Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries

  • Antonio Scurati stands in a black jacket next to a sunlit wall

    Italian author accuses state broadcaster of censorship of antifascist monologue

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