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Italy: so much mafia, so little news. Report on the December 2018 joint fact-finding mission

A detailed description of the Italian system of protection for journalists, a survey among...
Media Capture in Europe

An accurate overview on the worrying media capture phenomenon that is occurring in Europe, and...
Understanding our political nature

New insights into the analysis of political behaviour arrive from the behavioural sciences,...
Disinformation

The sixth of a series of thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom...
Last Despatches

BIRN’s Last Despatches series tells the stories of some of the reporters killed during and...
Newspapers that never arrive

Newspapers are made not only by journalists: starting from this statement, this pretty original...
The Business of Misinformation: Bosnia and Herzegovina. LYING FOR PROFIT

This report, published as part of a project aimed at keeping track of the individuals and...
The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation

The report highlights the findings from the three-year project on monitoring organised social...

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SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation

This article, published in 1989, originally presented with the additional title “Protecting Property or Intimidating Citizens”, contains the very first academic definition and study of SLAPPs, the lawsuits aimed at silencing freedom of expression