dwazou@jlai.lu to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoThe 2025 World Press Freedom Index is releasedrsf.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkThe 2025 World Press Freedom Index is releasedrsf.orgdwazou@jlai.lu to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareStamau123@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoHow the hell is America 2 points ahead? I guess there has been even more countries shifting downwards
minus-squarefilister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI think they measured the freedom index for 2024, Trump became president 2025.
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoit’s 2 ranks behind (1 point less score) - it went up from 55 to 57 because it was the 55th best and now it is 57th best
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI thought for sure you must have misread it, but yeah it’s two points UP. The metrics here are presumably so narrow and incomplete for 2025 as to be absolute misinformation. Relevant quote: According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, there were 49 journalist arrests in 2024 compared to only 15 in 2023. And zero recorded for 2025 so far, according to that page.
How the hell is America 2 points ahead? I guess there has been even more countries shifting downwards
I think they measured the freedom index for 2024, Trump became president 2025.
it’s 2 ranks behind (1 point less score) - it went up from 55 to 57 because it was the 55th best and now it is 57th best
I thought for sure you must have misread it, but yeah it’s two points UP.
The metrics here are presumably so narrow and incomplete for 2025 as to be absolute misinformation. Relevant quote:
And zero recorded for 2025 so far, according to that page.