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Imagine how bad it must be in some other countries when #Myanmar climbs 3 places.

#WorldPressFreedomIndex

And here are the 2023 rankings and change from 2022 of all 11 Southeast Asian countries in the #WorldPressFreedomIndex by #ReportersWithoutBorders:

• #TimorLeste 🇹🇱 - 10th 🔼 7
• #Malaysia 🇲🇾 - 73rd 🔼 40
• #Thailand 🇹🇭 - 106th 🔼 9
• #Indonesia 🇮🇩 - 108th 🔼 9
• #Singapore 🇸🇬 - 129th 🔼 10
• #Philippines 🇵🇭 - 132nd 🔼 15
• #Brunei 🇧🇳 - 142nd 🔼 4
• #Cambodia 🇰🇭 - 147th 🔽 5
• #Laos 🇱🇦 - 160th 🔼 1
• #Myanmar 🇲🇲 - 173rd 🔼 3
• #Vietnam 🇻🇳 - 178th 🔽 4

#tootSEA

#ReportersWithoutBorders has released the 2023 World #PressFreedom Index with the subtitle "journalism threatened by fake content industry": https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry

The #Philippines 🇵🇭 jumped up 15 places to 132nd out of 180 countries and slightly improved its score from 41.84 to 46.21 mostly due to increases in the economic and security indicators. There were very small decreases in the remaining 3 indicators: political, legislative, and social.

#WorldPressFreedomIndex #RSF #journalism

Die Lage der Pressefreiheit in 🇩🇪 wird im aktuellen #WorldPressFreedomIndex nicht mehr mit "gut" sondern nur noch mit "zufriedenstellend" bewertet. Gründe für die Abstufung: das Rekordhoch an Übergriffen auf Journalist:innen. Damit rutscht 🇩🇪 um 5 Plätze ab auf Rang 21.

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💪 #Ukraine has made impressive progress, rising 27 steps in @RSF_en rating as most mass media economically stabilized and influence of oligarchs on info space reduced

#WorldPressFreedomDay2023 #WorldPressFreedomIndex

Media associations in the country have voiced concern over #India slipping 11 places to 161st rank in the #WorldPressFreedomIndex, 2023. http://toi.in/B9_qqY61/a24gk #press

In the #WorldPressFreedomIndex 2023 Norway is ranked 1st and Ireland is second, congratulations! That's great! I like to hear the RTE 1 radio news and interviews in the morning. Esp. the interviews are conducted in the typical respectful Irish way. People are so much less confrontative than in my country, Germany. Which is ranked only 21st! The public discussion has become very difficult by fake news during the last years. Journalists are endangered at demonstrations.We should know better.

Press Freedom Index: Finland now less safe for journalistsA court case involving two HS journalists impacted the result. https://yle.fi/a/74-20030007?origin=rss #Journalism:Theory,Practice&Criticism #Worldpressfreedomindex #PressFreedomIndex #Lehdistönvapaus #yhteiskunta #media

Greece remains stuck at the bottom of the #worldpressfreedomindex of RSF in the EU and got upgraded from the 108th to the 107th position globally.

The surveillance and wiretapping of Greek journalists by the National Intelligence Agency and the illegal Predator software is considered the biggest violation of #pressfreedom in the EU. The government has only tried to cover up the scandal despite multiple warnings from EU’s PEGA and JURI committees.

https://rsf.org/en/index

#India’s ranking in the 2023 #WorldPressFreedomIndex has slipped to 161 out of 180 countries, according to the latest report released by global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders
https://trib.al/OauwfMS #press

Yesterday was #WorldPressFreedomDay. So I consulted the #worldpressfreedomindex for 2021. Overall the situation for #journalists all over the world got worse. Where, for years Western countries were regarded as beacons for #FreeSpeach that is in a lot of cases no longer true. In my view, this was to be expected. However Nordic countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Finland are holding the ford for now. Costa Rica is the odd one out, but must be applauded!
Belgian tumbled to 22 in the ranking and The Netherlands even to 28. The US is to be found at place 42. Canada is doing a better job at number 19.
For #Belgium and the #Netherlands, the reasons are similar. Most media are owned by only 2 groups: Roularta and DPG - media. Local media and other smaller media outlets either struggle to survive or disappear. In both countries journalists have increasingly been subjected to increased violence by trolls, violent protests and personal attacks. In the #Netherlands Peter. R. De Vries was murdered. Also the spread of fake news compromised decent #journalism ! #rsf.org