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Russia's security agencies, courts crosses new lines in crackdown on President Putin's enemies
Fp Staff •Since mid-March, Russia's parliament has also broadened censorship laws on what people can say about its armed forces and voted to extend the punishment for treason to life imprisonment instead of 20 years
Twitter's Blue Tick purge: Who still has the verification mark, who doesn't?
•Elon Musk's long-promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday. Many high-profile accounts, including the Pope and former US president Donald Trump, had their checkmarks removed
Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter who made her debut in Kuwait
•‘Fedha’ appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website on Saturday as an image of a woman, her light-coloured hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt
Will the 'AI revolution' cost journalists their jobs?
•Many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground
Explained: The role of the Russian media in the Ukraine war
•The combination of media and militarism has been an indispensable, integral part of Russia's use of war in international relations during the Vladimir Putin era. If Ukraine is winning the war for Western public opinion, Russia appears to be winning the war for domestic public support
Elon Musk's abrupt suspensions of journalist widen rift between Twitter and media
•Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday
China tops the list of countries with highest number of jailed journalists: Report
Fp Staff •Iran which also features on the list has locked up an "unprecedented" 34 media professionals since protests broke out in September over the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for breaching the country's strict dress code
Explained: Why journalists have a lot to lose if Twitter dies
•Few people will suffer as much as journalists if Twitter disappears. This is because it is an important part of their work, and they have grown reliant on it for instant updates, despite the dangers and distortions that come with it
How the Twitter chaos has led journalists to form a new alternative
•Journa.host bills itself as 'a reliable home for journalists,' and it has greater ambitions than just verifying journalists’ identities
Odisha withdraws order restricting entry of journalists to schools
•The Odisha government's ban on the entry of journalists to schools in some areas came after some TV news channels showed how students were poor in mathematics and triggered a political row