El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) expresa su profunda preocupación por las acciones legales tomadas contra el periodista Carlos Sosa en España en lo que parece una represalia por su trabajo periodístico sobre corrupción judicial. El pasado 8 de febrero de 2024, el Juzgado de Instrucción 27 de Madrid […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expresses deep concern over the retaliatory legal action taken against journalist Carlos Sosa in Spain. On February 8, 2024, the Magistrate’s Court number 27 of Madrid decided to open oral proceedings against Sosa, director of Canarias Ahora, a news outlet in the Canary Islands, based on a complaint filed by […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has released a big-data case study exposing a campaign to intimidate and discredit the Spanish foundation Maldita.es earlier this year. Maldita.es, an nonprofit organization of journalists that exposes falsehoods and misinformation, became the subject of a campaign by conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, and denialists in the run-up to the municipal and […]

Few dispute that migration needs governing. But what happens when a little-known organisation working far from the glare of public scrutiny takes things too far? The Vienna-based International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) has operated since the early 1990s along the geographical fringes of the European Union. Its remit is “migration management”, which may […]