Disinformation and propaganda

The Lachin corridor linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, a separatist enclave in neighbouring Azerbaijan with a mainly Armenian population, will have been blocked for three months on 12 March.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the decision by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to heed RSF’s warnings and place a Polish state-controlled company under surveillance because of the threat to press freedom.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Nigerian authorities to ensure that the country’s media are able to cover the ongoing electoral process without restrictions and without fear of reprisals.

RSF urges the Hong Kong government to withdraw a newly-adopted regulation that orders five free-to-air TV and radio broadcasters to transmit 30 minutes of “national security” propaganda programmes per week.

At a press conference Russian producer Marina Ovsyannikova and RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire described the extraordinary operation whereby she managed to secretly flee Russia with RSF’s help four months ago.

This takeover, which has triggered the departure of many leading NDTV journalists, is not isolated. Media acquisitions by oligarchs are clearly endangering pluralistic public debate in India, RSF warns.

Leaked January 6th Committee memo underscores tech platforms’ need for greater democratic safeguards

In response to the French Council of State's ruling, the French broadcasting regulator recognised its legal authority over Eutelsat's transmission of three Russian propaganda TV channels, and ordered it to stop broadcasting them, as requested by RSF.

In response to a request by RSF, France’s Council of State has overruled French broadcasting regulator ARCOM’s assertion that it lacks the legal authority to order Eutelsat to stop transmitting the signals of Russian propaganda media on its satellites.