Russia jails 19-year old for condemning its war in Ukraine | Censorship News
Daria Kozyreva used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest Russia’s war on Ukraine.A Russian court has handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years…
Russian journalists jailed for more than 5 years over alleged Navalny ties | Politics News
A Russian court has sentenced four journalists to five and a half years in prison each after convicting them of “extremism” linked to their alleged…
Francesca Albanese on being cancelled and censorship of Palestine | Digital Series
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says despite occasional cancellations at some universities, she continues to speak out and share…
Trump orders removal of ‘improper ideology’ from top US museums | Donald Trump News
Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.United States President Donald Trump has announced plans…
Why is X suing the Indian government as Musk woos Modi? | Elon Musk News
When Elon Musk met Narendra Modi in Washington DC in February, the SpaceX and Tesla chief presented India’s prime minister with a gift and introduced…
How Columbia gave in to Trump’s demands to get its $400m funding back | Education News
Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands laid down by United States President Donald Trump in return for negotiations to reinstate its $400m…
The West has been in denial about censorship for far too long | Opinions
On February 14, US Vice President JD Vance caused a stir at the Munich Security Conference when he decided to accuse America’s European allies of…
Does ‘cancel culture’ help or hinder free speech? | TV Shows
Today on The Stream: Has the line between accountability and censorship blurred with the rise of cancel culture?While some see cancel culture as a powerful tool…
Meta, Facebook to drop fact-checkers: What does this mean for social media? | Social Media News
Meta, the owner of Facebook and other social media platforms, will implement major changes to its content moderation policies, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this week…
Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’ | Social Media News
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, says allowing fact-checkers to assess content ‘became a tool to censor’.The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and…
A Year of Censorship: Social Media Crackdown | TV Shows
We look at how censorship on the internet has increased and ask what freedom of expression means online.With some governments banning apps like TikTok and social media…
2024 was a year of anti-Palestinian censorship and active art rebellion | Opinions
For artists, it is difficult to reflect on the past year without thinking about Israel’s genocide in Gaza that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians…
Georgia protests: What’s behind them and what’s next? | Conflict News
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have clashed with riot police in Georgia over the past five nights in protests against the governing Georgian Dream party’s decision…
Pakistan tests China-like digital ‘firewall’ to tighten online surveillance | Censorship News
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s government has deployed Chinese technology to build what some senior officials familiar with the project are calling a new, national internet…
Ben & Jerry’s claims parent company censorship over Gaza
Ben & Jerry's ice cream in a freezer in Jerusalem in 2022. The Vermont-based ice cream company claims its parent company, Unilever, is censoring its…
India can import Rushdie’s Satanic Verses after ban order ‘untraceable’ | Censorship News
A reader brought the case in 2019 after failing to find official proof of the ban on government websites.A court in India has lifted a…
Biden administration staffer quits over Gaza | Gaza
“I saw a policy that was really harming Palestinians through this kind of blind, destructive support of Israel.” Maryam Hassanein recently quit her job at…
Alana Hadid on the importance of Palestinian representation | Censorship
“We are witnessing the ongoing Nakba and an ongoing genocide while we’re trying to educate the world.” Palestinian American activist Alana Hadid discusses the importance…
Ilan Pappé on being censored for pro-Palestine stance | Israel-Palestine conflict
“We are not intimidated by them and that’s why they are using everything in their ammunition to silence us.” Israeli historian Ilan Pappé discusses his…
Before Brazil and Elon Musk: X’s history of run-ins with left and right | Social Media News
All five judges on Brazil’s Supreme Court panel voted last week to uphold a ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the country,…