In 2025, Germany was facing a crucial federal election in the midst of a tense political climate following the dissolution of the coalition government. The election campaign was increasingly ...

Media professionals consider the fight against disinformation as one of the most important challenges to their work. Citizens expect media professionals not only to be a source of trusted and verified ...

In 2004, Stephan Russ-Mohl founded the EJO with colleagues from the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano; the first websites appeared in German, Italian and English. Today, the EJO is a ...

Many free speech advocates, government officials, cybersecurity experts, and even Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg agree that the Internet’s original techno-libertarian ethos is no longer sustainable. In ...

Disinformation has been an issue worldwide, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the Central and Eastern European experience is unique. The mixture of post-totalitarian legacy, Russian ...

European news outlets have slowly started to shed light on the potentially harmful errors of artificial intelligence (AI). But the narratives around these technologies are still dominated by a ...

History has shown us that where freedom of the press declines, democracy suffers. That is why press freedom has remained a burning issue for countries around the globe. And while the Federal ...

Manipulating images to give them false context or convey untrue information is a common practice nowadays. Dubbed, ‘deepfakes’, the trend is being facilitated by access to expensive hardware and AI ...

Endless hours in front of the computer screen with only a short break for lunch in the kitchen a few metres away, then back to the grind until the sun goes down and you curl into bed, only to repeat ...

An intriguing debate is unfolding in the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta about whether television and radio stations owned by political parties are going against the Constitution – which demands ...

Donald Trump is gone. But more will remain of Trumpism than we would like – and the media will have to come to terms with the extent to which its work has played a role in allowing the former ...

Like virtually every other industry, the coronavirus pandemic caught the media by surprise. As publishers, editors, reporters and freelancers stepped off the dizzying roller-coaster ride of 2020, ...