by Pamela Arjona | Apr 5, 2025 | Boston University
On March 9th, Mahmoud Khalil was detained in his apartment in New York. President Trump claimed at the beginning of his term that he would ensure the investigation and detainment of international students who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza. It wasn’t long...
by Abigail Hassan | Dec 18, 2022 | Boston University
In March 2020, COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic; as the medical community worked to find a vaccine, the information world was rampant with misinformation. The Vietnamese government implemented a state of emergency and began cracking down on misinformation....
by Kevin Liao | Dec 8, 2022 | Boston University
Context On December 2nd, Elon Musk retweeted a thread which was posted at Musk’s behest by Matt Taibbi, called The “Twitter Files.” The thread details the censorship Twitter executives engaged in during the 2020 election. The censorship is concerned with a New York...
by Becca Richards | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
While a sign of robust democracy has always been the freedom of the press and freedom of speech, there can be moments where this freedom contributes to democratic backsliding. Democratic backsliding is otherwise known as a slow deterioration of democratic principles...
by Julianna Rossi | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding heights of the media, especially public television. Duda accomplished this by directly controlling messages published on TV...
