Thread by @BalkanInsight

🧵(1/10) Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay and we are joining the celebration by showing you some of our analysis in the last years. Interested? Take a look at our new thread and RT 🙌

(2/10) 🔴Media freedom remains a problem in many Balkan states, with journalists working in highly polarised political environments and encountering threats from criminal groups, says @RSF_inter ' 2022 World Press Freedom Index

balkaninsight.com/2022/05/03/med…

(3/10)🗨️From physical attacks to death threats and home break-ins, journalists from around the Balkans shared their personal stories of the threats that have stayed with them, sometimes years afterward. The video is originally published on this day, 2018.

(4/10) The @ECPMF’s Mapping Media Freedom project identified limitations, threats and violations faced by media workers in 43 countries. Read more 👇 balkaninsight.com/2022/03/01/med…

(5/10) 👩‍💻When it comes to women #journalists, prevailing narratives have focused on almost exclusively online violence and women’s vulnerability, rather than on the systems that make this type of abuse prevalent, normalized and even profitable

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(6/10)The coronavirus crisis has added a new set of concerns to an already deteriorating situation for free media as governments in Central and Southeast #Europe attempt to control the narrative and avoid scrutiny, even as dangerous disinformation swirls.

balkaninsight.com/2020/05/01/sec…

(7/10) #Russia's invasion of its neighbour has electrified the digital environments in the region, and pro-Russian #propaganda, #misinformation and #fakenews are skyrocketing.

Read our review, written by @matmastracci
balkaninsight.com/2022/03/21/pro…

(8/10) One of our latest articles was about the majority of people in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia who are concerned about media freedom in their country after seeing it decline over the last several years.

📸Pixabay / AndyLeungHK

balkaninsight.com/2022/04/26/cen…

(9/10) Last but not least, here is a quick lesson from @ResourceDesk for all of our Tweeter fans 😉How to use Tweetdeck to conduct open source human rights investigations.

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