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Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them

by Svea Windwehr, Jillian C. York, Christoph Schmon
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 7/28/2025

Italiano Español By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people...

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As Gaza starves, journalists sell their cameras for food

Shaimaa Eid in Gaza
Declassified UK
Published on 7/26/2025

I write these lines as my strength is fading – not just from the demands of journalism, but from the emptiness in my stomach that now clings to my fragile body. At times, I sleep having shared a single piece of bread with what remains of my family,...

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Radio silence on the reservation

Max Abrams
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 7/25/2025

Indian Time, a newspaper that served the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, built and informed a loyal audience of Indigenous readers on the U.S.-Canada border for over 40 years. Then, it vanished. In late December 2024, the paper’s last edition was printed...

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They’re not even trying to hide it

Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 7/25/2025

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s the 122nd day that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 41st day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on fo...

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Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

by Joe Mullin
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 7/25/2025

Español The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies. Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bil...

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