Marking the one-year anniversary of Russian opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov’s arrest, the AEJ supports Open Russia and exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorovksy in their call to […]
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The war in Ukraine – a war for free speech
From William Horsley, 14 May 2022 February 24 was a fateful day for world peace as President Putin staked his own and Russia’s future on an […]
Read moreAnalysing Cambridge Analytica
The Cambridge Analytica story first looked like a plotline out of U.S. TV series Homeland – allegations of an illegal data grab used to manipulate […]
Read moreNews fakers almost face justice
Two key and interlinked characters in the ongoing fake news sagas of recent years faced forms of justice in 2020 – almost. In the USA, […]
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Big lies and big tech
Ex U.S. President Donald Trump has sued three of the globe’s biggest tech companies. He claimed in his suit filed on July 7 2021 that […]
Read moreCould Canada’s largest newspaper save itself by fact checking Donald Trump?
The Toronto Star was the inspiration for Clark Kent’s Daily Planet – and like nearly every mainstream newspaper and broadcaster in the western world it […]
Read moreFake News undermines democracy …and confuses expert researchers
Two reports in 2018 tried to examine the difficult phenomenon of fake news. The AEJ issued a road map on how to respond after a […]
Read moreBrexit meets fake news – July 2018
In July 2018 there were a series of reports that raised questions about the role of fake news in the campaign for Brexit. A UK […]
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