[Press Freedom\NYPD]
CPJ’s Courtney Radsch: “Police should respect reporters’ right to keep source information private, rather than subpoenaing tech companies to gain information on journalists and their sources and methods.”
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HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE SENDS FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND LINKEDIN LETTERS REGARDING ELECTION MISINFORMATION THREATS
[Technology News\Election Disinformation]
“Social media has become part of our everyday lives, allowing us to connect with one another and share news, media, and information more easily and widely than ever before. Foreign adversaries are exploiting social media to seek political, economic, and military advantage over the United States and its allies.”
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TANZANIAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF “RETALIATING” AGAINST JOURNALIST ERICK KABENDERA WITH QUESTIONABLE ARREST AND CHARGES
[Journalistic Freedom]
Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) have called on Tanzanian authorities to “immediately drop charges” against journalist Erick Kabendera and to “end its practice of retaliation against critical voices.”
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AS “UNITE THE RIGHT ANNIVERSARY” APPROACHES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE COALITION DEMANDS TWITTER BAN WHITE SUPREMACISTS
[Racism News]
Change of Terms Coalition will hold press conference on Aug. 7 to talk about “how online hate turns into offline violence, and how Twitter’s failure to remove purveyors of hate in the two years since the Unite the Right attacks serve to allow white supremacists to organize, fundraise, recruit and normalize attacks on diverse communities and threaten all users.”
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