Freedom of information

Pakistani minister says 90% of social media content is false, urges crackdown

Fizza Abbas, a Karachi-based digital rights activist: “In Pakistan, the line between countering misinformation and constraining dissent has always been a delicate one.”

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party supporters protest to demand release of their jailed leader and Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Peshawar on December 2, 2025.
A 3D printed miniature of US President Donald Trump and the Truth Social logo are seen in this illustration taken June 22, 2025.

Trump's Truth Social media platform to introduce prediction markets

GRADUATES, SOME holding pro-Palestinian signs and flags, attend Columbia University’s graduation ceremony in New York City in May. The flare-up of antisemitism in classrooms and on campus is due to the confluence of contributing factors, says the writer.

Yogi Berra and a fork in the road - opinion

Russian journalist Kevorkova attends a court hearing in Moscow

Russia fines veteran journalist for 'justifying terrorism'


Freedom forgone: The concerning rise of censorship in Israel - comment

What justification would we have as a humanitarian society if we did not preserve the rights of those we disagree with just because we disagree with them?

 The Educational Bookshop in east Jerusalem.

Watchdogs sue US government over Qatar’s billions in university funding

Watchdog groups are suing the US government to uncover Qatar’s multibillion-dollar funding of top universities, raising concerns over foreign influence in academia.

 Infographic: Examples of Qatar’s influence arms

Israeli ministers break the law, fail to disclose daily schedules

Some of the ministries that have yet to respond to the inquiry include the Defense Ministry, the Education Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his cabinet in Jerusalem.

Missouri school board votes not to ban ‘Maus’ from district bookshelves following criticism

One district near St. Louis ordered staff to temporarily pull not only “Maus,” but also hundreds of other illustrated books, including several Holocaust history books for young readers.

Cover of the book 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

Middle East journalists share pessimistic outlook for region’s press freedom

On the 30th annual World Press Freedom Day, journalists in the Middle East described severely restricted freedom of expression and little hope for improvement in the future

 A view of the entrance of Evin prison in Tehran, Iran October 17, 2022

First Israeli sovereign cloud launched amid rise in information economy

By definition, other countries don't have access to the data that's in each sovereign cloud, and it's not subject to their laws.

Calling in a Cloud

Passover: Trapped in freedom

Passover is perfectly suited for savoring the freedom we sometimes take for granted. In many ways, the modern world embodies the revolution of Passover.

 PASSOVER IS also a moment to scrutinize freedom’s latent dangers.

Russia declares World Wildlife Fund and others 'foreign agents' - report

According to a Russian Justice Ministry release released to Interfax, the WWF received support from foreign sources.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Leonid Slutsky at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia February 13, 2023.

AI and its implications for copyright -opinion

It is clear that for the machine to write or draw anything, it needs access to existing information, documents, research, drawings, pictures, etc.

 Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are changing the world (Illustrative).

‘Scary time for Israeli democracy’: experts alarmed at threatened closure of public broadcaster

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

 Members of the Israeli media protest at a busy intersection in downtown Tel Aviv over the govenrment's plans to cut funding to the national public broadcaster, Jan. 29, 2023.

Self-censorship and its discontents - comment

I stopped by my student’s desk to see how her research was coming along. No stranger to the endless goldmine of internet mis/information, she was busy at work.

book censorship