Index on Censorship

Article	Citations
Zooming in on privacy concerns: Video app Zoom is surging in popularity. In our rush to stay connected, we need to make security checks and not reveal more than we think	25
Forced out of the closet: As people live out more of their lives online right now, our report highlights how LGBTQ dating apps can put people’s lives at risk	9
Social media platforms have a moral duty to ban misinformation about vaccines: Two leading thinkers on vaccine hesitancy and misinformation debate this crucial question	5
Jennings	5
“The idea is to kill journalism”: Kashmiri journalists on what it’s like working under lockdown, an internet blackout and a new draconian media law	4
Open book? In India, where people are forced to download a tracking app to get paid, journalists are worried about it also being used to access their contacts	3
Dying for the mother tongue: Why have people in Inner Mongolia recently taken their lives?	3
Royally silenced: As students campaign against lèse-majesté laws, the Thai exile and royal critic with a Facebook group of two million followers considers their fate	2
The double closet	2
Long march towards cultural genocide: As news emerges of the present horrors happening in Xinjiang, an expert on the region looks at its recent history	2
Sending a red signal: When a contact tracing app went wrong a journalist was forced to stay in their home in China	2
Another explosion for Lebanon: The blast in Beirut made international headlines. Even before that the nation was in turmoil and it has only worsened the mental health crisis	2
Italy’s bad internet connection: Italians have one of the lowest levels of digital skills in Europe and are struggling to understand implications of the new pandemic world	2
Democracy versus the people: Mali has seen a government coup following escalating protests. What has caused the unrest?	2
Generation app: How do diff erent generations feel about sharing personal data in order to tackle Covid-19? We ask people in South Korea, Spain and Italy	2
Virus masks a different threat: China is using Covid-19 responses and Hong Kong’s new security law to reduce freedoms in the city state	1
Fighting back against the menace of Slapps	1
The staged suicide that haunts Brazil	1
Censoring the net is not the answer, but…	1
Lies, damned lies and fake news	1
Speaking for my silenced sister	1
We should not be put up for sale	1
Cartoon	1
Jennings	1
Censorship is still in the script	1

China’s artful dissident	1
Life under lockdown: A Kashmiri journalist: A Kashmiri journalist speaks about the difficulties – personal and professional - of living in the state with an internet shutdown during lockdown	1
Nonsense and sensibility: An interview with the bestselling author about society’s slide into a total surveillance state	1
Another black day for Poland: The attack on women’s reproductive rights caused mass protests. Duda’s re-election gave it legitimacy	1
Crown confidential	1
Down with a disclaimer	1
A climate of fear	1
Two faces of On Liberty: Liberal institutions are becoming more censorial. Is the philosopher John Stuart Mill to blame?	1
Fishrot, the global stench of scandal	1
Inside story: Hungary’s media silence: What’s it like working as a journalist under the new rules introduced by Hungary’s Viktor Orbán? How hard is it to report?	1
Bollywood’s Code Orange	1
Who Speaks for IOWA? The owner of a small-town radio station talks about feeling ignored in the rural USA	1
The clockwork show	1
Emotional baggage	1
The eyes of the storm: Spies are on the streets of Uganda making sure everyone abides by Covid-19 rules. They’re spying on political opposition too. A dispatch from Kampala	1
How to challenge China: How do we make a global power sit up and take notice? These experts offer advice	1
Amin’s awful story is much more than popcorn for the eyes	1
It’s not easy being green	1
Killed by the truth	1
“There’s nobody left to speak”: First they came for the journalists. Then they came for the lawyers and activists. Who can speak out in today’s India?	1
Fighting for Covid information: Meet the people who are ensuring that even those in the most censored environments receive accurate information on the pandemic	1
Exposing Saudi’s nasty tactics	1
From hijacker to media mogul	0
Respect for tradition	0
Britain’s Holocaust island	0
Laughing matters	0
Government hits activists’ online profiles: Journalists and activists are finding their social media profiles hacked and sometimes deleted in a clear harassment campaign in Azerbaijan	0
Spain’s Lonely Voices: We trace the demise of many minority Spanish languages and look at whether others will survive	0
“Your limitless grief is a tale with no ending”: We publish the poetry of three Uighur poets – Abuqadir Jüme Tunyuquq, Idris Nurillah and Shahip Abdusalam Nurbeg – who have disappeared in China	0
My three years of hell in an Uyghur ‘re-education’ camp	0
When the old fox walks the tightrope	0
Turning sorrow into satire	0
The Index	0
Poet who haunts Ukraine	0
Statues within a plinth of their life	0
When the boot is on the other foot	0
To better days	0
Fake it till you break it	0
A royal reckoning	0
Out with the old? Donald Trump’s conduct during and after the election appeared extraordinary, but a look at US history challenges that	0
A most unlikely ally	0
India’s Great Firewall	0
Cigar smoke and mirrors	0
We walk a very thin line when we report ‘us and them’	0
Speech patterns: The Eritrean writer on escaping one of the world’s most censored countries and now living in Trump’s USA. Plus a new short story of his	0
Poland’s papal problem	0
The ‘truth’ is in the tea	0
A moral hazard	0
Secret agenda	0
Two letters	0

I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust	0
Turkish and European courts failed me	0
Turkey changes its tune	0
Russia’s Trojan horse moves closer to Europe	0
Monitoring terrorists, gangs - and historians	0
Looking back to when we looked forward	0
People first but not the media	0
The stench of white elephants	0
Features	0
Bars can’t stop a bestseller	0
Features	0
Stage right (and wrong): The playwright David Hare talks to Index about a very 21st century form of censorship on the stage. Plus a poem of Hare’s published for the first time	0
Fighting back against vendetta Politics	0
Giving Putin the finger	0
The thorn in Vietnam’s civil society side	0
The most dangerous man in Guantanamo	0
All the books that might not get written	0
Report first, talk later…	0
Bosnia on my mind	0
Comment	0
Masking the truth: The writer of The Vagina Monologues (formerly known as Eve Ensler) speaks to Index about attacks on the truth. Plus a new version of her play about living in a nuclear wasteland	0
Features	0
On not being shot	0
Joke’s on Lukashenka speaking rubbish Belarusian. Or is it?	0
Press under pressure	0
Still shouting at 50	0
Our principles are not for sale	0
Lines of inquiry	0
Uncle is watching	0
Always looking behind	0
Whistleblowers	0
I can run, but can I hide?	0
The law, when it suits him	0
Will Paulina ever rest?	0
A race to the bottom	0
Features	0
Royal secrecy has no place in a democracy	0
All hail those who speak out: It takes great courage to defend what you believe to be right. We must rally around those who do	0
A bulletin of frustration	0
Libraries turned into arsenals	0
Why the Taliban wanted my brave mother dead . . .	0
Heart and sole	0
How much distance from Mao?	0
Holding the rich and powerful to account	0
The Russians risking it all	0
Special Report	0
Culture	0
Page turners or slow burners? New books reviewed on the murder of a Honduran activist, stories from a Tibetan town and a semiautobiographical account of an artist in the USA	0
Let’s talk about sex	0
Hope in the darkness	0
Don’t be afraid to say two plus two is four	0
Manuscripts don’t burn	0
Tapestry of tyranny	0
Why journalists need emergency safe havens	0
War of the airwaves	0
Comment	0
Spinning bomb	0
Chaos censorship	0
Not a slur	0
The Index	0
Nigeria’s crucible	0
Special Report	0
Life in action: The Lebanese director talks to Index about how police brutality has increased in his country and how that informed the story of his new play, published here for the first time	0
The democratic federation stands strong	0
‘Threats will not silence me’	0
Speaking up for the Uyghurs	0
Handmaid’s Tale in Holy Land	0
Writer’s block	0
Fear and loathing in Belarus	0
India’s meaty issue	0
Windows on the world	0
Are we becoming Hungary-lite?	0
Culture	0
Turkey’s standups sit down	0
Would the media lie to you?	0
An unholy war on speech	0
Ganging up against the truth: El Salvador’s government do not want you to hear about a potential deal they’ve made with the country’s biggest gang	0
The Qatar conundrum	0
The woman who stopped Malta’s mafia taking over	0
Lived experience, to a point	0

Moving the goalposts	0
Soundtrack for a siege	0
Features	0
Special Report	0
Controlling the Covid message	0
A Cassandra worth heeding	0
Of conservatives, cancel culture and comics	0
Features	0
An arresting start	0
Ukraine’s disappearing ink	0
The man who blew up America	0
Culture	0
Culture	0
Be nice, or you’re not coming in	0
Reaching for an emotional flak jacket	0
Winning friends, making enemies, influencing people	0
Silencing the faithful	0
King David he is not	0
When comics came out	0
The truth is in the telling	0
Dead poets’ society	0
Remembering Rex Cornelio: Months on from the murder of Philippines radio host Rex Cornelio we speak to those who knew him about his bravery and his awful death	0
Putting Interpol on notice	0
Faithful foot soldiers	0
In Iran women’s bodies are the battleground	0
Conspiracy of silence	0
Hong Kong’s valiants with a message for the world	0
Four more years? Analysis of the upcoming US election looking at the media, plus a new satirical short story in which a dog considers Trump’s re-election hopes	0
Becoming tongue-tied: China is one country that is forcing people to give up their minority languages. Others have also attempted it	0
Message marches into lives and homes	0
Words under fire	0
Will the centre hold? They voted for Trump in 2016 because their voices were not being heard. How does middle America feel today?	0
Stripsearch: Ping! Don’t forget we’re watching you… everywhere	0
This is no joke	0
Shot by both sides	0
Jennings	0
Seeing what’s around the corner: Facial recognition technology may be used to create immunity “passports” and other ways of tracking our health status. Are we watching?	0
Crimea’s feared dawn chorus	0
We academics must fight the mob – now	0
The road of no return	0
Special Report	0
The smile that says a thousand words	0
Uncancelled	0
Burning through censorship	0
Modi’s singular vision for India	0
Dream of saving sacred land dies in the dust	0
Comment	0
New tactics to close down speech: The news editor at Rappler speaks to Index about legal threats against the media outlet’s CEO, Maria Ressa, plus a report on Index’s recent work	0
No country for anxious men	0
Palestine: I still have hope	0
The Index	0
World loses titans of free speech: A look at the free speech advocates that recently passed away including Sir Harold Evans	0
Culture	0
Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold	0
“The state won’t protect you”: The death of Robert Mugabe brought so much hope, but improvements to daily life have not come for Zimbabweans. Far from it	0
A marriage made in transgression	0
We are all dissidents	0
Features	0
Special Report	0
Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil	0
The unknown quantity: The Italian government is making efforts to cover up who and how many are trying to cross the Mediterranean	0
Worshippers of power	0
Lost in time and memory	0
France: On the road to illiberalism?	0
Comment	0
Out of sight, but never out of mind: Our interview with the director of a new documentary about the disappeared in Syria	0
America’s coolest members club	0
Taliban takeover jokes	0
Autism on screen is gonna be okay	0
Features	0
A snake devouring its own tail	0
Who is the real enemy?	0
The history man: One of China’s most widely read writers discusses a childhood memory of being punished for singing, alongside his short story, published in English for the first time here	0
The Theatre of Resistance	0
America’s coming crucible	0
Smoke, fire and a media storm	0
Special Report	0
Why should music be censorable?	0
Refused a passport	0
Knife-edge politics: An interview with Serbian journalist Ana Lalic, who forced the Serbian government to do a U-Turn	0
Putting abuse on the map: The coronavirus crisis has seen a huge rise in media attacks. Index has launched a map to track these	0
Challenging words	0
Denialism is not protected speech	0
Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side	0
Nowhere is safe	0
Setting the story straight	0
A papal precaution	0
Cancelling Russian culture is today’s moral imperative	0
A dissident hero	0
Banning those who ban: Jemimah Steinfeld talks to the Kuwaiti author about a landmark case in the country that saw a ban on books overturned. Plus an exclusive extract from al-Essa’s book Guardian of	0
Presiding over bloodshed: The voice of the opposition is increasingly missing in action as Uganda approaches election day	0
Exporting the American playbook	0
Features	0
‘Crimea has turned into a concentration camp’	0
Laughing in Rwanda	0