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.started a movement to raise awareness on how to consume information more responsibly. Coupled with the vast and fast spread of the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and others have described the dis/mis-information swirling around COVID-19 as toxic and potentially deadly in its own right. In Central Africa, where a digital divide is the reality, it is often up to connected journalists to bridge the online world and the offline spheres of the oral traditions that feature African cultures. This qualitative study asks the questions: How are online journalists fighting the COVID-19 disinfodemic in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? What challenges do they face in counteracting fake news and disinformation and reporting on the pandemic in countries where press freedom is undermined - the CAR and DRC being ranked 132 and 150, respectively, out
Hungary's last independent radio station has lost an appeal to keep its license after the country’s media regulator said it had violated a compulsory registration law.
Hungary's leading independent radio station Klubradio lost an appeal Tuesday to keep its broadcasting licence after the country's media regulator said it had infringed administrative rules, raising new press freedom concerns in the EU member state. The station, whose news and talk content is often critical of the Hungarian government, will continue broadcasting online from Monday, Andras Arato, head of Klubradio, told AFP. "The decision,.