Are Mark Zuckerberg's recently announced plans to ditch existing fact-checking policies motivated by winning political gain?

Syrian journalists have been subjected to free speech violations for decades. Could the future hold hope for a more open ...

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying ...

The past week has been busy for Index and in Hong Kong. It is up to us all to ensure award winners and political prisoners are not forgotten ...

In Syria, journalism was limited to writing only about the leader’s achievements. Criticism was forbidden, and one had to be a member of the Ba’ath Party to speak about accomplishments of both the ...

The adjective Orwellian is overused but the surreal ABC News debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris can only be described that way Smears about the media made by US President Donald Trump have ...

The Indian government may have withdrawn the latest version of its Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, but Modi still intends to bring his online critics to heel ...

After a fact-finding mission to Georgia on the state of free expression, a consortium of organisations, including Index on Censorship, present their findings.