How many of you have ever received a hateful or threatening message on social media? This is mostly a rhetorical question, since it is well-known that a significant percentage of journalists and bloggers have experienced verbal abuse online or know of a colleague who has. Online violence on social media can take various forms: direct […]

Earlier this month, the International Press Institute (IPI) released a comprehensive study highlighting ways in which Hungary’s civil defamation laws present obstacles to the coverage of political affairs. While those findings add yet another dimension to Hungary’s press freedom challenges, focus in recent times has rightly been on the abuse of Hungary’s criminal defamation laws, […]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today released a comparative study “Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region” finding that criminal law remains an instrument to excessively limit media freedom. Commissioned by the representative and conducted by International Press Institute (IPI) Director of Press […]

Read this article in Hungarian. The online harassment of journalists in Hungary adds a new dimension to the country’s overall state of freedom of expression, according to a new report released today by the International Press Institute (IPI). The report presents the findings of a three-month study focused on mapping and analysing online attacks against […]