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

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 ...

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

This week, 7 January 2025 marks exactly ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, when Islamist gunmen stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris editorial office and killed 11 people over cartoons of ...

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

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”117512″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Marking Banned Books Week 2021, Index on Censorship and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls on 23 December to elect a successor to incumbent president Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since January 2001 when he inherited the position ...

Hello, readers. This will be our final newsletter before Index wraps up for the holiday season. It’s been quite the year for freedom of expression, and whilst it’s not easy to summarise in one email, ...

In the last week of November, Pakistan went into what was essentially an internet blackout. Social media apps like WhatsApp were inaccessible after the authorities blocked internet and mobile phone ...