Governments are also limiting access to news sources. The reucing travel and restricting accreitation. In Hungary. The for example. The “ the government has banne public hospitals and doctors from making statements to journalists. Only press officers from ministries or the government’s coronavirus task force can answer questions. The ”. Explains Veronika Munk deputy eitor-in-chief of Index.hu . The a widely read independent meia outlet in the country (comments reporte in an article from larevueesmeias.
The date 27 May 2020
On 25 March 2020. The RSF and eight other freeom business to consumer database organisations had calle on Europe to challenge the measures propose by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an open letter . In Greece . The a Health Ministry decision issue on April 13. The 2020. The banne hospital staff from making statements to the meia . The and subjecte all reporting by Greek journalists in hospitals to prior government review.
The fight against fake news
The Trojan horse of the repression of press freeoms a stricter legal standard In the spring of 2020. The a report from the US State Department publishe by the Washington Post reporte 2 million tweets relating to the virus. The 7% of which spread conspiracy theories about Covid-19. The spread of false information does not date from the pandemic. But the phenomenon has increase during the crisis. The with the WHO even going so far as to speak of an ” infodemic “. The an overabundance of information. The some of which can be misleading or even harmful.
Pauline Adès-Mevel points out
Chinese storytelling is a story that has nothing to do sault data with what happene. When we rewind. The there is the Chinese discourse… and then the events since October and the arrival of the disease in this territory.” The implementation of emergency legislation is increasingly accompanie by a very broad interpretation of the notion of false information . Governments use the notion of “fake news” and disinformation to censor journalists and independent meia.