Estonia and Denmark straight up switched 2nd and 6th places. Good for Estonia. Sad for us Danes.
The 2025 World Press Freedom Index is released
Submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to globalnews@lemmy.zip
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RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 week ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 week ago
Be very careful on the northern hemisphere beyond 30°E
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I am pretty sure their measurement of the USA is wrong.
match@pawb.social 1 week ago
there’s only 71 democracies (counting flawed democracies such as the US) out of the ~170 in the world, per the democracy index. RSF assigns a lot of weight into how many reporters are killed in each country
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Truly, thanks for your response - I understand now that it does seem to be one of the major factors that goes into their ranking.
I just feel like ranking press freedom is flawed when things are this fucked. Here in the US, whistleblowers are persecuted or killed, accurate and unbiased reporting on events feels like it almost never happens, omission of newsworthy events is rampant, independent journalism is at the behest of a few corporations that have total control of the algorithms and the platforms that these journalists rely on, a couple corporations own the entirety of all mainstream media… I could go on, but I’d just be preaching to the choir in all likelihood.