Freedom of information
Iran won information war by shutting down the Internet - opinion
Iran’s Internet blackout denied protesters access to information and helped the regime outmaneuver the US in the information war.
Photo of Donald Trump removed from released Epstein files, Democrats decry 'cover-up'
Pakistani minister says 90% of social media content is false, urges crackdown
Trump's Truth Social media platform to introduce prediction markets
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.
‘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.’
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.
Does Israel's military censor balance democracy and security correctly?
The chief military censor today is Brig.-Gen. Doron Ben Barak, who previously served as the deputy military advocate-general and someone who is well acquainted with human rights and civil liberties.
A writer's experience with cancel culture
While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.
High Court rules PMO must hand over 2015 expenditure invoices
The High Court ruled that the Prime Minister's Office would have 90 days to hand the NGO 220 previously unreleased invoices from the famous residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem.
Think tank urges greater transparency in government decision-making
The entity responsible for deciding which government meetings would be transparent and which would remain classified for 30 years - is the government itself.
Israel's State Archives demand all state-related documents be handed in
Ruti Abramovitch, the state archivist, threatened other archives in a letter, writing that 'any archives holding a document defined as classified may be subject to severe penalties'
New report recommends targeted sanctions to protect journalists
The report came in response to "a decade-long decline in media freedom through systemic censorship and attacks on journalists ranging from harassment, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings."
Between the freedom and security of information
The Spokesperson’s Unit and Military Censor have completely collapsed.