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From Informed Responsibility To Dangerous Denial: COVID Responses in Eurasia

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By: Veronika Pfeilschifter, Polina Sadovskaya | May 4, 2020

There have been striking differences in how certain countries in Eurasia have responded to COVID-19 with regard to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy rights. More

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DARE: Border Agents Confiscated Lawmakers’ Phones. Joaquin Castro Captured Photo and Video Anyway.

News DigestJuly 3, 2019

Photos emerge from government immigrant detention centers closed to public view. Trump administration abandons adding citizenship question to the 2020... More

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DARE: Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke about Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

News DigestJuly 2, 2019

Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Following a ProPublica report, Customs and Border Patrol officials… More

DARE: Bipartisan Senate Group Wants to Formally Blame Saudi Crown Prince for Journalist’s Killing

News DigestDecember 6, 2018

Bipartisan Senate coalition moves to formally assign blame for Khashoggi killing on Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Facebook comes under new fire as... More

DARE: CNN Asks for Emergency Hearing after Trump Threatens to Revoke Acosta’s Press Pass Again

News DigestNovember 19, 2018

White House officials tell CNN correspondent Jim Acosta that his press pass will be suspended again when the court restraining order forcing its... More

DARE: Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning Globe

News DigestAugust 22, 2018

Facebook and Twitter identify and shut down multiple accounts linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns aimed at users in several countries including the U.S. More

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DARE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Apologize in Testimony to Congress

News DigestApril 10, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg to offer "big apology" in Capitol Hill testimony on data breach. Department of Homeland Security seeks contractor to compile comprehensive database tracking journalists and media outlets. Backpage.com… More

DARE: 2020 Census Will Ask About Respondents’ Citizenship Status

News DigestMarch 27, 2018

California Attorney General to sue Trump Administration over new census question that would ask respondents to reveal their citizenship. EPA imposes new rules prohibiting scientists from relying on studies… More

DARE: Allegations from Women in His Past Shadow Trump

News DigestMarch 21, 2018

Two women in court seeking paths to tell their stories of alleged affairs with President Trump. Fox News analyst quits citing outrage at the network’s denigration into a “propaganda… More

DARE: Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord

News DigestFebruary 14, 2018

The Director of National Intelligence tells Senate that Russia is expected to “continue” using propaganda and other information manipulations to sow division in the U.S. and influence elections. Arizona… More

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