The Juba Monitor, a newspaper in South Sudan in 2022. For some reason there is no article on the left side of the second page of this day's paper. This is censorship. The article was white out by order of the government just before printing as it contained content that was inconvenient for the government of South Sudan.
While there are still such censorship incidents occurring around the world, even in high-income countries where press freedom is supposed to be well established, censorship problems have been confirmed out of sight. For example, in the U.S., in an effort to stop the spread of articles and other information published by newspapers online, the U.S. government pressured social networking companies to remove the information from their social networking sitesdetectionThe company is doing so.
I would like to see improvements toward true freedom of the press.
Learn more about press freedom in South Sudan → "Media Issues in South Sudan"
Learn more about the problems with free speech in the U.S. → "Twitter Files"
Learn more about calls for press freedom in Western countries → "Westminster Declaration (1931)"
(Photo by Virgil Hawkins)