Disinformation and propaganda

RSF priority campaigns raise awareness among decision-makers and the public around key issues facing press freedom and the right to reliable information.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2024 Activity Report. It highlights the scale of the NGO's activities to protect reliable, independent information at a time when press freedom suffered dramatic setbacks worldwide.

The Taliban authorities are tightening their grip on the dissemination of information in Afghanistan.

In the case of Novaya Gazeta v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Russia for abusing the pretext of a "national security threat" to systematically restrict reporting on the war in Ukraine.

For over a year, the Kremlin-funded website International Reporters has been masquerading as a professional news outlet in order to spread Russian disinformation.

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic.

For the second year running, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has ranked disinformation as the greatest short-term risk to society

On 7 January, Meta announced the closure of its fact-checking program in the United States, paving the way for a similar decision in Europe

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statements, in which he openly brands journalism and fact-checkers as “biased,” are just the culmination of a long war of attrition against journalism on Facebook.