Publications

Over the past few months, Belgium has issued several site-blocking orders targeting hundreds of piracy-linked domain names. These blockades follow a newly instated two-step process. A local court first issues a blocking order, after which a special g...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 255 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts...

While Australia’s site-blocking mechanism has made few enemies since 2018, it hasn’t been known for being fast. As discussed earlier this year, accuracy has traditionally been favored over speed, which is contrary to less cautious approaches taken...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The New York Times and its Pentagon reporter, Julian Barnes, are taking the Trump administration to court over the Department of Defense’s unconstitutional requirement that journalists pledge not to report unauthorized inform...

The European Commission (EC) is considering a “Digital Omnibus” package that would substantially rewrite EU privacy law, particularly the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s not a done deal, and it shouldn’t be. The GDPR is the...

When it was revealed in November 2025 that a BBC programme edited a section of Donald Trump’s speech on 6 January 2021 to reinforce the idea that the freshly deposed president was calling on his supporters to take violent action at the US Capitol, bo...

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A report published by the European Commission last month assessed whether its Recommendation of May 2023 had made a difference in the fight against pirated streams. No significant improvement” was the downbeat conclusion. From the perspective of to...

Michigan’s Grand Blanc Township thinks it has discovered a trick to weasel out of accountability: charging a reporter more for government records than most people earn in two years. Independent journalist Anna Matson filed two requests for records ab...

After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States. The goo...