World Press Freedom Index, 2021

Reporters Without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) recently released the annual World Freedom Index, 2021.

  • The index ranks 180 countries, topped by Norway followed by Finland and Denmark.

Important Findings

  • Journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries.
  • Only 12 of the Index’s 180 countries (7%) can claim to offer a favourable environment for journalism.
  • Covid-19 pandemic has been used to perfection by nations to control the spread of information.
  • The Report has raised concern about the larger Asia-Pacific region as several nations in an attempt to curb freedom of press have in ....
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