In 2025, press freedom in Europe was under sustained pressure, driven by legal threats, attempts at media capture and transnational repression. This pressure was compounded by an increasingly hostile ...

The Online Safety Act could have been worse. When it was still a bill, it included a provision around content deemed “legal but harmful”, which would have required platforms to remove content that, ...

She longed for a normal life and to return to Moscow after years spent reporting on the war in Chechnya. She did return to ...

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman talks about how doors of opportunity have been closed in the ...

On Saturday, friends of the Slovak investigative journalist held 30 commemorative demonstrations to mark his brutal murder in 2018 ...

Index and other organisations call on the UK government to provide clarity over public broadcaster's funding at a critical time ...

At Index on Censorship, we believe everyone deserves the right to speak freely, challenge power and share ideas without fear. In a world where governments tighten control and algorithms distort the ...

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, administers the most important algorithm in the English-speaking world. He is undoubtedly as consequential as David Zaslav or Rupert Murdoch – the CEO of Warner Bros ...

A proposed 60% shortfall would limit its ability to operate independently and to fulfil its mission to inform citizens on matters of public interest ...

At the launch event for our Gen Z edition of Index on Censorship at the University of Essex recently it was striking how many ways the panellists felt their voices had been muffled and contained, if ...

Gen Zers who stayed and Gen Zers who left have found themselves censoring what they say to each other ...