Uganda encouraged to foster ethical and accountable AI ecosystem
Uganda’s growing use of AI highlights the urgent need for a comprehensive national framework to protect citizens’ digital rights.
Brazil: RSF meets with IACHR rapporteur, calls for action to safeguard diverse, reliable information sources and journalists’ safety
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Special Rapporteur to urge the Brazilian government to regulate digital platforms, strengthen journalist protection, and promote media pluralism in his upcoming report.
EU members and candidate countries saw 1,548 press freedom violations in 2024
Protests were among the most dangerous environments for journalists in 2024, with 271 press freedom violations recorded. Over 50% of these were physical attacks on journalists, often by state agents.
Safeguarding digital safety and human rights in the Lebanese context
Amid AI-driven shifts in the information landscape, stakeholders at the Lebanese Internet Governance Forum push for modern media laws balancing digital security and free expression.
The art of participatory AI
The director of MISA Regional, Dr Tabani Moyo, endorses the AU’s Afrocentric AI strategy and emphasises the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to ensure ethical AI development.
The War on Gaza: Digital rights violations and weaponization of AI
7amleh’s report examines how Israel’s digital repression silences Palestinian voices, restricts online spaces, and deepens systemic injustice.
RSF urges Apple to remove its new generative AI feature after it wrongly attributes false information to the BBC, threatening reliable journalism
This accident illustrates that generative AI services are still too immature to produce reliable information for the public, and should not be allowed on the market for such uses.
Australia: Evidence is clear; urgent action needed on AI creative theft
The federal government is urged to implement laws to stop the theft of Australia’s creative and media work by AI developers.
Trump’s election win should prompt Europe to better protect journalists
“Trump’s anti-press rhetoric has already prompted many of his admirers, around the world and in Europe, to retaliate against the media. With Donald J. Trump back in the White House, they will feel even more empowered to harass the press” – EFJ
China: New campaign to ‘standardise’ use of language signals further clampdown on online expression
The rise in online censorship has been labelled by online commentators in China as the ‘new literary inquisition’.
Australia: Media, creative, and arts workers spearhead calls for new AI-specific Act
The proposed measure seeks greater transparency and disclosure around the use of data and to prevent the theft of original works.
Africa’s persistent digital divide deepens political inequities
CIPESA’s 2024 State of Internet Freedom in Africa report examines the interplay between technology and elections.
Palestinian digital rights and Big Tech accountability in the context of genocide
The report explores how digital platforms violate rights by systematically censoring Palestinian voices and pro-Palestinian content during the Gaza genocide.
Gaza: Israeli military’s digital tools risk civilian harm
Israel’s use of new technologies to target people in Gaza raise grave laws-of-war, privacy, and personal data concerns.