Freedom of information

The US and Israel need an Iron Dome for the information war

The next attack is already being drafted somewhere. It will not wait for a press office to answer.

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023.
 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Iran won information war by shutting down the Internet - opinion

A photo from the publicly released Epstein files which was removed without explanation from the Justice Department’s collection.

Photo of Donald Trump removed from released Epstein files, Democrats decry 'cover-up'

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party supporters protest to demand release of their jailed leader and Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Peshawar on December 2, 2025.

Pakistani minister says 90% of social media content is false, urges crackdown


Russia declares World Wildlife Fund and others 'foreign agents' - report

According to a Russian Justice Ministry release released to Interfax, the WWF received support from foreign sources.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Leonid Slutsky at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia February 13, 2023.

AI and its implications for copyright -opinion

It is clear that for the machine to write or draw anything, it needs access to existing information, documents, research, drawings, pictures, etc.

 Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are changing the world (Illustrative).

‘Scary time for Israeli democracy’: experts alarmed at threatened closure of public broadcaster

Media world hits back at plans to cut state funding for Kan as communications minister says ‘no place for public broadcasting in Israel’; academic warns country may be heading down ‘dangerous path.’

 Members of the Israeli media protest at a busy intersection in downtown Tel Aviv over the govenrment's plans to cut funding to the national public broadcaster, Jan. 29, 2023.

Self-censorship and its discontents - comment

I stopped by my student’s desk to see how her research was coming along. No stranger to the endless goldmine of internet mis/information, she was busy at work.

book censorship

Does Israel's military censor balance democracy and security correctly?

The chief military censor today is Brig.-Gen. Doron Ben Barak, who previously served as the deputy military advocate-general and someone who is well acquainted with human rights and civil liberties.

 AN ISRAELI F-15 takes part in an international aerial training exercise in October at the Uvda Air Force Base.

A writer's experience with cancel culture

While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.

 THE WRITER at the newspaper he  worked at during and after high  school.

High Court rules PMO must hand over 2015 expenditure invoices

The High Court ruled that the Prime Minister's Office would have 90 days to hand the NGO 220 previously unreleased invoices from the famous residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu boarding the plane to Athens

Think tank urges greater transparency in government decision-making

The entity responsible for deciding which government meetings would be transparent and which would remain classified for 30 years - is the government itself.

Israel Katz chats with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting

Israel's State Archives demand all state-related documents be handed in

Ruti Abramovitch, the state archivist, threatened other archives in a letter, writing that 'any archives holding a document defined as classified may be subject to severe penalties'

Yaacov Lozowick, then director of the Israel State Archive, poses for a picture at the national archive in Jerusalem April 19, 2016

New report recommends targeted sanctions to protect journalists

The report came in response to "a decade-long decline in media freedom through systemic censorship and attacks on journalists ranging from harassment, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings."

A newsstand in Manhattan outfitted with ‘Fake News’ headlines was a stunt by the ‘Columbia Journalism Review,’ in October 2018.