From disinformation campaigns to scepticism, low trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.
From disinformation campaigns to soaring scepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.
Platforms like Facebook “are now explicitly deprioritising news and political content”, the Reuters Institute’s 2024 Digital News Report pointed out.Few are keen to pay for news. Only 17 percent of people polled across 20 wealthy countries said they had online news subscriptions in 2023. In the United States, partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, the research group NewsGuard, which tracks misinformation, said in June.
“Eradicating disinformation seems impossible, but things can be implemented,” Reporters Without Borders editorial director Anne Bocande told AFP.US streaming platform Peacock introduced AI-generated custom match reports during the Paris Olympics this year, read with the voice of sports commentator Al Michaels – fuelling fears AI could replace journalists.
A total of 584 journalists are languishing behind bars because of their work – with China, Belarus and Myanmar the world’s most prolific jailers of reporters.
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