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  1. Freedom of the press only exists when the press says things some member of the ruling class wants said. Otherwise it evaporates like a morning fog.
    presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/0

    #Iran #IranWar #PressFreedom

  2. A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

    Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

    We got there first. Read the investigation:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

  3. A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

    Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

    We got there first. Read the investigation:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  4. A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

    Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

    We got there first. Read the investigation:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  5. A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

    Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

    We got there first. Read the investigation:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  6. Five FOIA requests have been filed.

    Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

    We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

    The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

    Updates here:
    sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

    Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

    #AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

  7. Five FOIA requests have been filed.

    Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

    We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

    The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

    Updates here:
    sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

    Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

    #AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

  8. Five FOIA requests have been filed.

    Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

    We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

    The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

    Updates here:
    sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

    Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

    #AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

  9. Five FOIA requests have been filed.

    Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

    We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

    The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

    Updates here:
    sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

    Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

    #AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

  10. Five FOIA requests have been filed.

    Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

    We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

    The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

    Updates here:
    sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

    Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

    #AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

  11. NEW REPORT LIVE

    We’ve spent the last week digging, cross-checking, archiving posts and reconstructing the sequence that led to the August 26 designation of Autistici/Inventati

    The resulting investigation follows a campaign against “Antifa” as it moved through outside advocates, political influencers, the White House, Congress and U.S. counterterrorism policy before an Italian privacy collective was sanctioned.

    This is not a theory-of-everything graphic or a pile of screenshots. It is an attempt to document who said what, when they said it, where those arguments moved next, and what the government ultimately did.

    FROM KIRK TO A/I
    sabot.media/post/kirk-to-ai

    DEDICATED INVESTIGATION PAGE
    sabot.media/investigations/aut

    Background, documents and the continuing campaign:
    sabot.media/campaigns/autistic

    #AutisticiInventati #Antifa #Surveillance #Counterterrorism #PressFreedom

  12. He couldn't legally leave the UK three months ago. Now he's Trump's oil partner.

    Alejandro Betancourt still carries a Swiss arrest warrant over money laundering allegations — yet controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields and 65 billion barrels in reserves under a deal Trump calls historic.

    We investigated how he got there, and whether the Trump family profits.

    Read it:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

  13. He couldn't legally leave the UK three months ago. Now he's Trump's oil partner.

    Alejandro Betancourt still carries a Swiss arrest warrant over money laundering allegations — yet controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields and 65 billion barrels in reserves under a deal Trump calls historic.

    We investigated how he got there, and whether the Trump family profits.

    Read it:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  14. He couldn't legally leave the UK three months ago. Now he's Trump's oil partner.

    Alejandro Betancourt still carries a Swiss arrest warrant over money laundering allegations — yet controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields and 65 billion barrels in reserves under a deal Trump calls historic.

    We investigated how he got there, and whether the Trump family profits.

    Read it:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  15. He couldn't legally leave the UK three months ago. Now he's Trump's oil partner.

    Alejandro Betancourt still carries a Swiss arrest warrant over money laundering allegations — yet controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields and 65 billion barrels in reserves under a deal Trump calls historic.

    We investigated how he got there, and whether the Trump family profits.

    Read it:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  16. How Link Suppression Hurts Local Journalism

    By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

    Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 2, 2026

    Local journalism depends on one simple action: linking readers to full reporting. On X, that action increasingly comes with penalties. When links are buried or throttled, journalism loses reach, revenue, and trust — especially in countries like the Philippines.

    This essay explains how link suppression damages local news and why that harm matters beyond the media industry.

    Journalism Cannot Live Inside One Platform

    Reporters do not publish entire investigations in social media posts. They link to articles, documents, and sources hosted elsewhere. This is how credibility is built and verified.

    When a platform discourages links, it breaks that chain. Readers see headlines without context. Facts are separated from evidence. Journalism is reduced to fragments.

    That weakens public understanding.

    Smaller Outlets Are Hit First

    Large media companies have multiple distribution channels. Local outlets do not. Many Philippine newsrooms rely on social media to reach readers who cannot afford subscriptions or who live far from major cities.

    When links are suppressed, these outlets lose traffic overnight. Advertising revenue drops. Donations slow. Some stories never reach the audience they were written for.

    This is not a level playing field.

    Link Suppression Rewards Noise Over Reporting

    Content that stays inside the platform — short posts, arguments, and outrage — travels more easily than careful reporting that points outward.

    The result is a system that rewards speed over accuracy and emotion over evidence. Journalists who follow professional standards are punished. Accounts that spread opinion or misinformation are amplified.

    This is not an accident. It is an outcome of platform design.

    The Public Pays the Price

    When local journalism weakens, communities lose information. Corruption is harder to expose. Local issues receive less attention. Rumors fill the gap left by reporting.

    In the Philippines, where regional news plays a critical role in accountability, this loss is serious. Democracy depends on access to reliable information, not just loud commentary.

    Platforms that damage journalism damage public trust.

    Why This Is a Business Failure

    Strong platforms benefit from strong journalism. News builds credibility and attracts advertisers who value informed audiences.

    By suppressing links, platforms undermine the very ecosystem that makes them valuable. Short-term engagement replaces long-term trust.

    That trade-off may boost metrics today, but it weakens the market tomorrow.

    Looking Ahead

    The next essay will examine how attention is extracted from users without being fairly shared or returned as value.

    When journalism is punished for pointing outward, the platform stops serving the public.
    It serves only itself.

    For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com

    This essay will be archived in the WPS News Archives at Amazon.

    References (APA)

    McChesney, R. W. (2015). Rich media, poor democracy. The New Press.

    Reuters. (2023). News organizations see traffic drops from X. https://www.reuters.com

    UNESCO. (2022). Journalism, platforms, and the public interest. https://www.unesco.org

    #digitalPublishing #linkSuppression #localJournalism #mediaSustainability #newsMedia #Philippines #platformEconomics #pressFreedom #socialMediaPlatforms #Twitter #XPlatform
  17. Das Motto des Internationalen Tages der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai lautet heuer: „Eine Zukunft in Frieden gestalten: Pressefreiheit für Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Sicherheit fördern.“

    Während bei der World Press Freedom Day Global Conference am 04. und 05. Mai in Lusaka, Sambia, über diese Themen gesprochen wird, spinne, stricke und häkle ich im Atelier Mitzi für die Pressefreiheit: Mit meiner Handspindel stelle ich aus alten Zeitungen Papiergarn her. Daraus entstehen gehäkelte Körbe und gestrickte Stücke.

    Ein herzliches Danke meiner wundervollen Tochter @hasi für die tollen Fotos!

    unesco.at/kommunikation/presse

    #Pressefreiheit #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #peace
    #HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #JournalismMatters
    #Upcycling #SustainableArt
    #Artivism #KunstUndPolitik
    #CriticalArt
    #SpeakThroughArt
    #AltpapierUpcyceln #chrochet #spinning #knitting #paperyarn #zeitungsgarnspinnen #AtelierMitzi #wels #upcycelninwels

  18. 🌏 For World Press Freedom Day, we're highlighting resources for teaching about the freedom of the press in a changing media landscape. Explore journalism ethics, press freedom, and media responsibility with our Media Literacy and Journalism Lesson Collection. Featuring award-winning films from around the world including And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, Navalny, The Post, and more. For grades 6-12. and adult/higher ed.

    In a time when journalists around the world are under attack, these are powerful lessons to put current events into context for your students and make press freedom easy to teach about .

    Check out these amazing films & free lesson plans! 👇

    journeysinfilm.org/film/media-

    #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #Journalism #MediaLiteracy #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #GlobalEducation

  19. BBC editor's #libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why

    Good coverage of the state of an important #pressFreedom case
    #hasbara #AIPAC #censorship #statePropaganda #journalism #zionismIsWhiteSupremacy #islamaphobia #imperialism #stateMedia #antiWar #owenJones #owenBennettJones #palestineAction

    jonathancook.substack.com/p/bb

    > Raffi Berg may be fighting for damages, but it's really the #BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in doubt

  20. #Pressfreedom groups condemned the arrests of #journalists #DonLemon and #GeorgiaFort, who were detained while covering an #antiICEprotest in #Minnesota. The arrests are seen as an attack on the First Amendment and a chilling attempt to silence the press. The groups called for the immediate release of the journalists and the dropping of all charges. theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/3 #tech #media #news

  21. A U.S. court has temporarily restricted access to materials seized from a journalist during a federal investigation, pending judicial review.

    Beyond press freedom implications, the case also underscores how digital evidence handling, access controls, and legal oversight intersect when sensitive information is involved.

    From a security and governance standpoint, what best practices should guide investigations that touch journalistic sources?

    Share your thoughts and follow @technadu for measured reporting at the intersection of cybersecurity, law, and policy.

    Source: reuters.com/business/media-tel

    #InfoSec #CyberGovernance #DigitalForensics #PressFreedom #CyberLaw #TechNadu

  22. #LARB Radio Hour welcomes #JuliaLoktev to talk about her new #documentary #MyUndesirableFriends

    'Filmed in 2021, just before #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, the five-hour epic follows independent journalists at #TVRain as they navigate escalating government repression and the “foreign agent” laws designed to silence dissent.'

    lareviewofbooks.org/av/julia-l
    #media #RussianMedia #censorship #stateRepression #pressFreedom #cinema #film #cinéastes

  23. 3. Mai: Tag 11 der Aktionstage Politische Bildung 2025 #atpb25
    humanrights.at/aktionstage/tag

    Die Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen erklärte 1993 den 3. Mai zum „World Press Freedom Day“. Weiters gibt es #FakeNews Workshops in Oberösterreich und im Parlament gibt es eine kostenlose Führung zu 80 Jahre Zweite Republik.

    #PolitischeBildung #Schule #Bildung #Politik #Demokratie #PressFreedom #Pressefreiheit #Medien #Media #DCEY2025 #Erinnern2025

  24. Press freedom is fine. Press independence, particularly for local media, is better. I'm supporting a business intern at two weekly newspapers in Iowa to help make that happen.

    #PressFreedom #PressIndependence #LocalMedia #Iowa #Internship

    technewslit.com/explores/explo

  25. Unlawful Activities: How the Indian prison system denies basic freedoms, rights and dignity to political prisoners

    Even the UAPA prisoners under the full glare and scrutiny of the media were subject to a cavalcade of cruelties, large and small. This ranged from the denial of medical treatment, to the mental and physical cruelties of high-security prison cells, and even to being disallowed from speaking to relatives in their native language. Bhavya Dore and Sukhada Tatke write.

    #UAPA #PoliticalPrisoners #undertrials #dissent #PressFreedom #activism #BK16 #TalojaCentralJail #disability #HumanRights #healthcare #BhimaKoregaonCase #maharashtra #india

    thepolisproject.com/read/unlaw

  26. India Deserves a Better Media

    Mainstream news channels have been in thrall to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A ragtag army of small independent media is helping to save democracy. Mukul Kesavan writes.

    #media #NarendraModi #ProGovernmentMedia #TimesNow #IndiaToday #RepublicTV #PressFreedom #GauriLankesh #GujaratRiots #BJP #communalism #hindutva #misinformation #modi #india

    archive.ph/NuZro

  27. Interview: “In my 34-year career as journalist, I have never felt as anxious as I do today,” says Samar Halarnkar

    In an interview with Maktoob’s Gafira Qadir, Samar Halarnkar, founder of the independent media house Article-14, talks about the tough situation journalists are in, facing threats and new laws that limit their freedom. He also talks about how hard it is to report on the government in a critical way.

    #PressFreedom #media #journalism #censorship #DraconianLaws #BJP #UnionGovt #UAPA #PMLA #kashmir #manipur #UttarPradesh #islamophobia #hindutva #authoritarianism #india

    maktoobmedia.com/india/intervi

  28. Time to repeal UAPA in a country boasting to be a democracy

    'A country boasting to be a democracy cannot have a vague and draconian law like UAPA, which is only used to frame activists, political opponents and critiques of the state,' writes Banjyotsna Lahiri.

    #UAPA #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #UmarKhalid #StanSwamy #HumanRights #democracy #india

    telegraphindia.com/elections/l

  29. Kashmiri Journalist Aasif Sultan Granted Bail After Years Behind Bars

    Sultan was languishing in jail since August 2018 when he was arrested by the police for allegedly harbouring terrorists at his Srinagar residence.

    #kashmir #AasifSultan #PressFreedom #UAPA #NIA #rights #DraconianLaws #india

    thewire.in/rights/kashmiri-jou

  30. Prabir Purkayastha's Arrest By Delhi Police & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor's Release In UAPA Case

    The Court noted that a copy of the remand application was not provided to the appellant or his counsel before passing the remand order on October 4, 2023. Therefore, the Court held that the arrest and the remand are vitiated.

    #NewsClickCase #PrabirPurkayastha #SupremeCourt #DelhiPolice #UAPA #NYT #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #india

    livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme

  31. The Prosecutor General's Office instructed the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate the case of surveillance of journalists from Bihus.info. The Prosecutor General emphasized the obligation to protect journalists from any form of pressure and persecution. The "Platform for the Protection of Journalists' Rights" operates in the Office of the Prosecutor General for this purpose. #PressFreedom #JournalistProtection

  32. #SLAPPs In Europe: How The #EU Can Protect Watchdogs From #AbusiveLawsuits

    In their new policy paper, #Liberties and other rights and #pressfreedom groups explain why abusive lawsuits (SLAPPs) against watchdogs and journalists threaten #democracies in Europe and what governments and the EU should do tackle it.

    by Linda Ravo
    January 13, 2022

    "The European Commission is set to shortly unveil its proposal for EU-wide measures against SLAPPs. In a new policy paper published today, Liberties and other rights and press freedom groups which form the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (#CASE), explain what SLAPPs are, how big of a threat they are to watchdogs in Europe, and propose what governments and the EU should do tackle the problem.

    Censorship by litigation

    "Citizens are supposed to be in charge of their democracies. #Watchdogs like #journalists, #rights #defenders and #activist groups are key to enable citizens to get informed, shape their opinions, and keep an eye on people in power to make sure they do what is best for all of us.

    "As we explain here, SLAPPs (an acronym which stands for 'strategic lawsuit against public participation'), are a form of abuse of law and justice that #corrupt politicians and powerful #businesses across Europe increasingly make use of to #harass, #bankrupt and intimidate #journalists, activists and other watchdogs into silence. Helped by expensive and unscrupulous law firms, they sue them on grounds of meritless and abusive claims with the purpose of shutting down acts of public participation, including public interest journalism, #PeacefulProtest or #boycotts, #advocacy, #whistleblowing, or simply speaking out against abuse of power."

    liberties.eu/en/stories/slapp-

    #DigitalFreeSpeech #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas

  33. Supreme Court advocate Sanjay Hegde sounds ‘police state’ alarm over NewsClick FIR

    Senior Supreme Court advocate and civil rights promoter Sanjay Hegde has expressed alarm at the mention of a lawyer as a “key person” in the FIR registered against the NewsClick news site under the anti-terror law UAPA. “The day that a lawyer can be deterred from taking a brief that he would have normally taken, that is the beginning of a police state,” Hegde told The Telegraph.

    #NewsClick #NewsClickFIR #SanjayHegde #DelhiPoliceRaids #DelhiPolice #PoliceState #PressFreedom #dissent #india

    telegraphindia.com/india/supre