Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week of changes to Meta’s content moderation policies appeared to primarily be about building trust. Trust among users. Trust among investors. And trust among the ...

Maha Ghazal is a Syrian journalist, feminist and civil rights activist. She was previously the managing editor of the website Madar Al-Youm. She is also a member of the Executive Office of the Union ...

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, the best-selling Turkish novelist wrote for Index about how writers are staying silent on their self-censorship ...

This week, 7 January 2025 marks exactly ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, when Islamist gunmen stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris editorial office and killed 11 people over cartoons of ...

In Syria, journalism was limited to writing only about the leader’s achievements. Criticism was forbidden, and one had to be a member of the Ba’ath Party to speak about accomplishments of both the ...