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Public Room: How the Macedonian Media Missed the Opportunity to Shed L...
As the “Public Room” case remained unsolved for two years after its discovery, media coverage led the public in N. Macedonia to mistrust the country’s authorities.

The Media’s Role in Malawi’s Struggle to End HIV Stigma
While the communities in Malawi in particular and the country at large are hoping for the media to help end any form of stigma and discrimination the media itself needs a lot of training and courage to confront the problem.

New Report Produced by MDI Examines Antisemitic Narratives in Anti-Vax...
Media Diversity Institute as part of Get The Trolls Out! (GTTO) and in collaboration GTTO partners Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Center …

Event: Conspiracies of Hate: Antisemitism in Online Anti-Vax Discourse
What is the connection between anti-vax conspiracies and antisemitism and what is the role of social media? About this event …

November Newsletter: Online Disinformation Threatens Diversity in the ...
On 22 October a consortium of 17 US News organisations published a series of reports called ‘The Facebook Papers’. Reports …

Quo Vadis, Serbia?
How did the defenders of Serbia’s shameful past get the right to paint murals of war criminals?How did we get to the point of considering activists as rioters and arresting them?

The Great Reset and its Believers
Belief in the “Great Reset” narrative and how the world is allegedly transforming into a socialist eco-dictatorship has gathered pace thanks to the pandemic – with politicians now weighing in on the issue. What do the right-wing media and activists have to say abo...

In Ethiopia the Truth is Killed Every Day
As the civil war in the Horn of Africa enters its second year, the propaganda machinery is in full gear and mutual hatred reaches new heights.

Reporting Femicides: Is the UK Media Racially Biased?
Better representation, accurate facts, and diversity in the media is required to break disproportionate coverage and overcome racial bias.

India at the Centre of Facebook’s Challenges with Misinformation and...
The solution to the problems Facebook and other tech giants face in India and elsewhere does not lie in increasing censorship that may undermine digital freedom. Rather it requires more open, more accessible, and more equitable digital space in a rules-based broader env...

Women Journalists in South Asia Face Censorship, Hate and Fear Online
Facebook’s recent scandal and its failure to regulate hate content is telling of the impact it has to diversity online. Although, tech companies are to blame for unregulated hate, governments are to blame as well.

Resources: Boundless hate on the internet – Dramatic situation acr...
A new representative survey commissioned by HateAid within the Landecker Digital JusticeMovement shows: Digital violence has reached massive proportions across …