PEN America: Israel Barring Entry to Omar and Tlaib is Obvious Retaliation
(New York, NY)—Israel today declared it would deny entry to Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar just hours after President Trump urged the Israeli government to do so. PEN… More
DARE: Judge Tosses Russian Trolls’ Free Speech Lawsuit against Facebook
Judge dismisses First Amendment lawsuit brought by Russian news agency against Facebook after social media company took down the agency's page following... More
DARE: CEO Jack Dorsey Suggests Big Change for Twitter, and Users Revolt
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the social media platform is looking to shift from following individuals to following topics as part of efforts to counter... More
DARE: Facebook Backtracks after Removing Warren Ads Calling for Facebook Breakup
Facebook removes and then reinstates ads placed by presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of the social network... More
DARE: Pro-Russian Twitter Account Used Non-Public Material from Mueller’s Team in Effort to Discredit Russia Probe
Pro-Russian Twitter account found spreading confidential information linked to the Mueller investigation. Facebook and Google face backlash for... More
DARE: As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
New York Times investigation shows the new breadth of Facebook user 'data-sharing,' including reading of private massages, phone numbers, and calendars... More
DARE: How 3 Actors Overcame Trump’s Travel Ban to Take the New York Stage
Three actors, two from Iran and one from Syria, travel from London to Brooklyn for the New York performance of The Jungle, a new British play set in the... More
Deporting of Writer Taking Part in Palestinian Literature Festival a Concerning Development for Freedom of Association
“Abulhawa’s deportation continues a rising pattern of the suppression and punishment of critical voices by the Israeli government. We call on Israel to uphold its constitutional protections for free… More
Dareen Tatour | Status: Released | Israel/Palestine
Poet Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who has spent more than two years in jail or under house arrest since October 2015, was convicted on May 3,… More
DARE: Memphis Police Accused of Using Fake Accounts to Surveil Black Activists
Evidence emerges of Memphis police department using fake social media accounts to surveil Black Lives Matter activists. Sarah Huckabee Sanders defends attacks on CNN's Jim Acosta. More
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Egyptian authorities released four people Thursday, including two Egyptian journalists, arrested in a police raid on the Cairo bureau of Turkey’s state-run news agency, a judicial official said. https://bit.ly/2NR0TuL
NEW: PEN America has joined 57 other media and press freedom organization in opposing the egregious restrictions on journalists during the impeachment trial. @senatemajldr and @SenSchumer should allow reporters to do their jobs. https://pen.org/press-release/restrictions-on-press-during-impeachment-would-jeopardize-press-freedom/
Albania's ruling majority says it plans to overrule a presidential veto on a set of controversial government-proposed media laws which were passed December 17 amid an outcry by rights groups and international observers. https://bit.ly/2u5eck1