Australia’s path-breaking 2021 legislation, which got Google and Meta to pay more than 300 million dollars to media outlets, is being watched by countries around the world that want to emulate it. H...
Patricia Campos Mello
columnist Folha de Sao PauloOnline violence against women journalists: a global scourge that demands urgent action
Women journalists are increasingly the targets of online violence connected to orchestrated disinformation campaigns waged by states, political actors, conspiracy networks and misogynists. They have b...
As threats to independent journalism continue to accelerate, with efforts to control the free flow of accurate, unbiased information around the world, the law is being weaponised to compromise journal...
Bolsonaro's administration built a disinformation machine known as the “Hate cabinet" run by his sons and advisers to spread fake news and attack journalists, politicians, artists and media outlets ...
Overcoming the trolls: political polarization, disinformation and journalist targets
In 2019, Brazilian political journalist Patricia Campos Mello, who had previously reported from hot spots and conflict zones around the world, hired her first ever bodyguard in the wake of a relentles...
Last year, Brazilian political journalist Patricia Campos Mello, who had previously reported from hot spots and conflict zones around the world, hired her first ever bodyguard in the wake of a relentl...
Jair Bolsonaro's presidency in Brazil has seen escalating attacks on journalists in person and on freedom of information more generally. Threats, intimidation, defamation campaigns, lawsuits - often b...