Our 2nd annual Media Freedom Report is out👇 ✨Another great team effort Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon ✨🤗

[Opinion] In some member states, free and independent journalism is nearing its final breath. By Jascha Galaski and @jonathanlday of Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon euobserver.com/opinion/156941

For us at Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon, the use of sensitive data is a red line. We urge the EU Council to include a total ban on sensitive data for political advertising. /6 euronews.com/2023/05/25/sex…

🗣 VIEW | As the GDPR turns five, certain EU lawmakers want to rip out some of its protections, so they can use our deeply personal information to tailor political ads and tip political elections and campaigns in their favour, Eleanor Brooks and Balazs Denes write.

1/4 Your race, sex life & religion are NOT for politicians to freely use to target you with their messages.🙅🏾‍♀️ BUT it seems that European Commission & EU Council don't mind it when targeted #PoliticalAdvertising is used to spread #disinfo, manipulate votes & deepen social divisions.

🔁 Did you see Liberties' monthly recap 🔁 May went something like this... ❌ EU must ban sensitive data in political ads 👀 EU's Defence of Democracy Package preview 📖 messaging guide for marginalised groups Don't miss out next month, sign up ➡️ link.liberties.eu/c9b95e

Von "arm" und "geschieden" über "fragile Senioren" und "Moms who shop like crazy" bis "spielsüchtig", "depressiv" und "Brustkrebs": Hier sind 650.000 Kategorien, in die uns die Werbeindustrie einsortiert. netzpolitik.org/2023/microsoft…

❣️At Liberties, we believe everyone should be free to be who they are and love who they love.❣️ 🌈 But in Europe today, the LGBTQ2IA+ community is still struggling for the right to make their own choices, like being able to start a family or access gender-affirming healthcare./1

Appeal to EU Member States: Do NOT use national security as a pretext to weaken the #EMFA via EFJ europeanjournalists.org/blog/2023/06/1… Alexander Fanta @hsc55 Luca.A @ChloBemy Brigitte Alfter jean-paul Marthoz Tom Gibson @willems_leon @ABThulstrup Mogens B. Bjerregård Tove Carlén ✍️ Vittorio di Trapani Francesca De Benedetti

🚨We welcome European Parliament’s (European Parliament) decision to adopt a ban on abusive mass surveillance technology in today’s #AIAct vote. Whilst the ban on abusive surveillance is a welcome step in the right direction, this was not a wholesale victory amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

EPP fighting climate change.

1/3📨#OpenLetter: 80 civil society, media, publishers and broadcasters organisations, and trade unions are calling on LIBE Committee Press to BAN #spyware deployment against journalists without exceptions in the European #MediaFreedom Act #EMFA Read the letter: edri.org/wp-content/upl…

The #advertising industry has more than 650,000 labels to target people. Reading through them reveals how even the most sensitive aspects of our life are monitored. EU-based data brokers play a vital role in this system. Reporting by Ingo Dachwitz (inactive, find me on Mastodon) netzpolitik.org/2023/surveilla…

"We rarely paint a picture of the future we want to create. But to mobilise your audience, you need to give them a vision to fight for, not just the doom and gloom you’re fighting against." Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon @IdJButler unpacks the right messaging formula euronews.com/2023/08/16/the…

Gerade mal einen Tag hat das Bundeskanzleramt Verbänden eingeräumt, um zum neuen #BND-Gesetz Stellung zu nehmen. Reporter ohne Grenzen und Freiheitsrechte.org - GFF sind empört. Sie werfen dem Bundeskanzleramt Geheimniskrämerei vor netzpolitik.org/2023/bnd-geset…

🔔🔖#Report #SLAPPs #Europe SLAPPs targetting journos & activists are a growing threat to our right to speak, right to know & ultimately – our democracies! This report provides the most recent overview & analysis of the data we continue to collect. ➡️ the-case.eu/latest/how-sla…

🚨The AI Act must protect the rule of law🚨 Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon, European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social, ECNL and 60+ other civil society organizations call on EU lawmakers to pass an #AIAct with robust safeguards for fundamental rights and the rule of law. Here’s what’s needed in the law. /1👇

We all should have the same rights online as we do offline. But the new Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon ‘Online Civic Space Report’ shows this isn’t reality in the EU. 🧵/1👇

Next year almost 2 bn people will head to the polls, including voters in the US & the EU. How the media reports on candidates & parties will have a major impact on voters’ opinions. Eva Simon & Jascha Galaski on why #mediatransparency matters in #EMFA euractiv.com/section/media/…

EU negotiators are finalizing the #MediaFreedomAct. The next two weeks will determine if the content lives up to the title. Media freedom groups IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media urge Parliament to stand firm. CULT Committee Press LIBE Committee Press Read about the key battlegrounds here euobserver.com/opinion/157729