✋ 5 years ago, we founded the The CASE to fight SLAPPs in Europe. ⚖️ Since then, we’ve pushed the EU & Council of Europe to establish strong legal instruments to #StopSLAPPs. Today, in Brussels, we’re planning next steps. The mission: strong national protections 💪

Google broke the law. It’s time to break up Google. My latest oped for The Guardian on 2 rulings against its illegal monopolies offer a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign the infrastructure of surveillance underpinning Google’s ill-gotten dominance theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congratulations marius dragomir for winning the Karol Jakubowicz Award for your incredible work on media capture over the past decade. Proud to be able to work with you and all the team at Media and Journalism Research Center. Keep up this vital work

🚨 New from Dr. Courtney Radsch in The Guardian: Two major US cases say Google is an illegal monopoly, using its dominance in one market to control others. What are the remedies? 🧵 Read more: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The EU must prioritise media freedom to combat disinformation. This cannot be done without fixing the market for a vibrant and pluralistic media. End platform dominance of advertising Provide tax incentives for investors, advertisers & subscribers Make Bigtech pay for content

Journalists are under pressure as protests rise against autocratic rule. Join us in Brussels to discuss how the international community can respond to the multiple crises facing #PressFreedom. #WPFD2025 📅 May 5, 16:30 📍 Press Club Brussels Europe 👉 buff.ly/xJLn0Yp

🇷🇸#Serbia: On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay 2025, IPI joins Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in publishing latest joint report with findings about the deteriorating state of #mediafreedom in Serbia, following our recent mission to the #EU candidate country👇 buff.ly/siqn6PN

📢 On World Press Freedom Day, we launch our Turkey 2024 Mission Report: Judicial harassment, regulatory censorship and the looming threat of the espionage act threatened independent journalism. Read more and download the report: buff.ly/hePU0ha

📢 New article by our director marius dragomir in EJO! He explores how EU countries are tackling media capture & preparing for the European Media Freedom Act—based on our annual report with IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media. de.ejo-online.eu/medienpolitik/…

🇪🇺 Today at the European Parliament’s LIBE LIBE Committee Press hearing, the MFRR consortium joins forces to highlight how systemic attacks on journalists are threatening press freedom and democracy across the EU and candidate countries.

🗣️"The key thing at the moment is that it is clear that in #Georgia you are not going to get a fair trial. she hasn't had due process yet; and really, what's going to make the difference here is ensuring that the world is watching!", - Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC speaking about the case of

📢European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Media Freedom in #Georgia, Demands Release of Journalist Mzia Amaglobeli 💢On June 19, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on #media freedom in Georgia, with a strong focus on the case of journalist Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი. Amaglobeli,

Is the Chief Executive overseeing N1, Serbia's leading independent broadcaster about to be forced out by United Group to appease the Vucic government?

EC rumoured to be planning to issue Google with a modest fine for anti-competitive actions in digital ad market. Only the break up of Google's ad companies can end its stranglehold over the market and release billions of euros into the media sector reuters.com/legal/litigati…

Worth re-reading this from Sonia Sodha in January 2022 about the College of Policing: ‘And just before Christmas (2021), in a landmark judgment that has attracted surprisingly little commentary from human rights lawyers given its profound implications…’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

European People's Party chief Manfred Weber said the party would launch a process to reevaluate the membership of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's SNS party. euractiv.com/section/politi…

when did the UK police start thinking it was OK to detain and investigate journalists for covering crime on the public record and sharing selfies from a beach? NUJ IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media

According to Ursula von der Leyen #SOTEU The first step in an autocrat’s playbook is always to capture independent media. For all you need to know about the actors and drivers behind #mediacapture and #EMFA read IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media @mjrc Media and Journalism Research Center reports shorturl.at/qHtZZ

This proposal should be blocked by the FCC, if it ever does materialize. Its approval will only lead to further erosion of antitrust laws, freedom of the press, and dangerously shrink media plurality and diversity in America. wsj.com/business/media…

🎉 Registration for the MFRR Summit 2025 is open! On 13 October, Brussels will host leading journalists, policymakers, and experts to address urgent threats to press freedom and strengthen media resilience across Europe 📰 Secure your place today: mfrr.eu/mfrr-summit-20…