Six urgent measures Meta should adopt to tackle disinformation
Facebook celebrated its 20th anniversary on 4 February, but still has no real safeguards against mass disinformation. RSF calls on the tech giant now called Meta to take urgent measures to protect the right to reliable information on all of its platforms.
Looking ahead: Argentina at a crossroads, media and women’s rights at risk
IFEX Americas Regional Editor Laura Vidal looks into what lies ahead for Argentina following the election of Javier Milei.
EFF’s digital rights wish-list for 2024
EFF will continue to advocate for affordable, future-proof internet access for all, and for an end of the use of artificial intelligence and automated systems for policing and surveillance.
Pakistan: Political parties urged to include digital rights issues in their election agenda
Digital Rights Foundation urged political parties to include six digital rights concerns in their election manifestos.
USA: To address online harms, we must consider privacy first
In this report, EFF explores a new approach to tackling online harms leaving behind strategies based on ill-conceived bills and censorship-driven solutions.
7amleh documents over a million instances of violent speech in Hebrew against Palestinians on social media platforms
37 days since the escalations; over 1 million instances of hate speech and incitement.
RSF and 16 partners unveil Paris Charter on AI and Journalism
“In response to the turmoil that AI has created in the news and information arena, the Charter defines ten key principles for safeguarding the integrity of information and preserving journalism’s social role” – RSF
Elusive justice: Combatting election disinformation and impunity; journalists freed in China and Afghanistan
Special International Day to End Impunity Issue: Mong Palatino’s latest Asia and Pacific brief shines a light on the intersections between impunity, journalists’ safety, and elections, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
7amleh records over 103,000 instances of hate speech targeting Palestinians online
7amleh documented more violations by online platforms targeting Palestinian digital rights and freedom of expression.
Advances in artificial intelligence are amplifying a crisis for human rights online
A new Freedom House report notes that while innovations in AI contributed to the 13th consecutive year of global decline in internet freedom, older forms of digital repression continued to proliferate.
Iran: Tech-enabled ‘Hijab and Chastity’ law will further punish women
Concerns mount over use of new Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition technology to target women.
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty looks more like a global surveillance pact
“Broadly scoped, ambiguous, and nonspecific international cooperation measures with few conditions and safeguards are simply a recipe for disaster that can put basic privacy and free expression rights at risk” – EFF
RSF and partners launch international committee for an “AI Charter in Media”
Led by Maria Ressa, the committee consists of 21 experts from the fields of journalism, AI and digital technologies. It will deliver the results of its work before the end of the year 2023.
UN: Global Digital Compact must prioritise human rights
“It is vital that all existing human rights commitments are integrated and mainstreamed throughout the GDC. States must ensure complementarity, coherence, and consistency between the GDC and existing international human rights commitments” – ARTICLE 19
Generative AI, ChatGPT and human rights
What’s behind this technology? Who feeds it data and decides where the data comes from? What does this have to do with human rights?
RSF: Environment for journalism “satisfactory” in only 30% of countries
RSF’s 2023 World Press Freedom Index highlights disinformation as one of the biggest threats to journalism globally.