Anyone using social media to promote fake news in Ireland could be jailed for 5 years and handed a €10,000 euro fine, according to plans put forward by one of the country’s leading political parties.
Journalists and staff from a Turkish newspaper staunchly opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are going on trial in Istanbul, accused of aiding terror organisations – a case that has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Sunday, dozens of Iranian ex-patriots, Americans, American-Iranians, Canadians, and Canadian-Iranians gathered in front of the White House in Lafayette Square Park to vocalize their support for President Donald Trump and urge him to be the leader to help usher in a free Iran.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said, “it seems like President Trump has spent more time golfing than governing.” And that Trump has “tried to stifle a free press and confuse the truth with fake news
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Facing harassment, enforced shutdowns and the threat of jail at home, Turkey’s journalists in exile are using Germany as a base to report on political turmoil in their country ahead of Sunday’s referendum.
With the rollback of the Obama Administration’s Net Neutrality almost complete, the Internet Association issued a manifesto to the now Republican-dominated FCC stating they intend to fight to bring back politicized regulations they worked so hard to implement.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag says his German counterpart has requested the release of German daily Die Welt’s jailed correspondent and described the demand as “unacceptable.”
Facebook has launched new features in Germany to counter so-called “fake news” after authorities claimed such stories could help populists in this year’s elections and threatened to sue the social media firm.
A prominent British parliamentary committee is set to launch an inquiry into so-called “fake news”, claiming the phenomenon is undermining democracy.
The North Wales police and crime commissioner has backed a campaign aiming to put right wing papers out of business because of their reporting on mass-immigration and Brexit.
ANKARA (AFP) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday dismissed a “red line” warning on press freedom by the European Parliament’s president following the detention of several journalists from the opposition daily Cumhuriyet.
The popular “100 Percent FED UP” page was censored by Facebook, its curators said.
Breitbart Texas was in Livingston, Texas, approximately 74 miles north of Houston, when we spotted a Cajun seafood restaurant just loaded with Trump/Pence placards and some local county political race signs.
Attorneys general for the states of Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Nevada, have been denied their request to stop President Obama’s unilateral “give-away” of the Internet.
Four state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Texas to stop the Obama Administration from giving control of the Internet to an international organization that lists several authoritarian regimes as advisers on its board.
A new poll has claimed that Brits are the most likely in Europe to regard their national press as “right wing”, despite the other six countries named in the poll being highly left wing in their politics, media, and culture. Swedes and Germans were the
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the opportunity of speaking to a think tank in Istanbul on Monday to attack The New York Times for sounding the alarm on freedom of the press in Turkey. He suggested that its criticisms of Erdogan’s use of the legal system to intimidate news outlets was “overstepping the limits of freedom,” and told the New York outlet, “Know your place.”
In a case watched by journalists and legal bloggers all over the United States, the Supreme Court of Texas has been petitioned to reconsider its decision not to hear a case involving the free press rights of a blog site.
A Turkish court ordered the nation’s authorities to block Facebook pages that they deem to be insulting of Muhammad, author of the Koran.
I don’t much feel like re-posting the Muhammad cartoons for which Charlie Hebdo became famous. It’s not a matter of fear, or political correctness. A decade ago, I was living in the heart of the Muslim community in Cape Town, writing articles against fundamentalism and in defense of the U.S. and Israel even while I enjoyed breaking Ramadan fasts with friends and neighbors. I did so at some considerable risk to my personal safety. I was lucky to meet religious Muslims who wanted nothing to do with violence–and it is precisely because of those relationships that I choose not to offend, even while standing with Charlie Hebdo.
