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	23
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
Jennings	5
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
“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
Dying for the mother tongue: Why have people in Inner Mongolia recently taken their lives?	3
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
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
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
Sending a red signal: When a contact tracing app went wrong a journalist was forced to stay in their home in China	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
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
Jennings	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
Exposing Saudi’s nasty tactics	1
The clockwork show	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
Censoring the net is not the answer, but…	1
Another black day for Poland: The attack on women’s reproductive rights caused mass protests. Duda’s re-election gave it legitimacy	1
Chipping away at our privacy: Swedes are having microchips inserted under their skin. What does that mean for their privacy?	1
A slap in the face: Meet the Italian journalist who has had to fight over 126 lawsuits all aimed at silencing her	1
There’s nothing wrong with being scared: As a journalist from Singapore grows up, her views on those who have self-censored change	1
It’s not easy being green	1
Democracy versus the people: Mali has seen a government coup following escalating protests. What has caused the unrest?	1

Cartoon	1
Unhealthy market: As coronavirus affects China’s economy, will a weaker market mean international companies have more power to stand up for freedom of expression?	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
Bollywood’s Code Orange	1
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
Nonsense and sensibility: An interview with the bestselling author about society’s slide into a total surveillance state	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
Down with a disclaimer	1
Silent majority: A culture of fear has taken over Venezuela, where people are facing prison for being critical	1
Speaking for my silenced sister	1
The big deal: French journalists past and present have felt pressure to conform to the view of the tribe in their reporting	1
Fishrot, the global stench of scandal	1
The double closet	1
Two faces of On Liberty: Liberal institutions are becoming more censorial. Is the philosopher John Stuart Mill to blame?	1
Censorship is still in the script	1
China’s artful dissident	1
Who Speaks for IOWA? The owner of a small-town radio station talks about feeling ignored in the rural USA	1
Fighting back against the menace of Slapps	1
The staged suicide that haunts Brazil	1
Lies, damned lies and fake news	1
Crown confidential	1
Amin’s awful story is much more than popcorn for the eyes	1
A climate of fear	1
How to challenge China: How do we make a global power sit up and take notice? These experts offer advice	1
Queer erasure: Internet browsing can be biased against LGBTQ people, new exclusive research shows	1
Killed by the truth	1
Hong Kong’s valiants with a message for the world	0
UK law risks criminalising the innocent	0
This is no joke	0
A royal reckoning	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
Still shouting at 50	0
They like it best when you say nothing at all: Whether from lack of options or an unwillingness to be inconvenienced, some of our life choices are curtailing our freedoms	0
Crimea’s feared dawn chorus	0
Hair apparent	0
Special Report	0
Poland’s papal problem	0
Burning through censorship	0
Special Report	0
Modi’s singular vision for India	0
Special Report	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
Turkish and European courts failed me	0
A most unlikely ally	0
India’s meaty issue	0
Words under fire	0
Denialism is not protected speech	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
The stench of white elephants	0

Fear and loathing in Belarus	0
My three years of hell in an Uyghur ‘re-education’ camp	0
When the boot is on the other foot	0
The unknown quantity: The Italian government is making efforts to cover up who and how many are trying to cross the Mediterranean	0
Fighting back against vendetta Politics	0
Giving Putin the finger	0
To better days	0
Jennings	0
The most dangerous man in Guantanamo	0
All the books that might not get written	0
We walk a very thin line when we report ‘us and them’	0
Windows on the world	0
Uncancelled	0
Generations apart? We sat down with Turkish and Chinese families to hear whether things really are that different between the generations when it comes to free speech	0
Out of sight, but never out of mind: Our interview with the director of a new documentary about the disappeared in Syria	0
On not being shot	0
A snake devouring its own tail	0
An unholy war on speech	0
Dream of saving sacred land dies in the dust	0
The Theatre of Resistance	0
Willingly watched: Chinese people are installing their own video cameras as they believe losing privacy is a price they are willing to pay for enhanced safety	0
Lost in time and memory	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
Culture	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
Not my turf: Helen Lewis argues that vitriol around the trans debate means only extreme voices are being heard	0
King David he is not	0
The ‘truth’ is in the tea	0
Libraries turned into arsenals	0
A papal precaution	0
Laughing in Rwanda	0
Faithful foot soldiers	0
The man who blew up America	0
Truth in seduction	0
Presiding over bloodshed: The voice of the opposition is increasingly missing in action as Uganda approaches election day	0
Special Report	0
‘Crimea has turned into a concentration camp’	0
A dissident hero	0
Hope in the darkness	0
Britain’s Holocaust island	0
Tapestry of tyranny	0
Spain’s Lonely Voices: We trace the demise of many minority Spanish languages and look at whether others will survive	0
An arresting start	0
The Documentary Bolsonaro doesn’t want made: Brazil’s president has pulled the plug on funding for the TV series Transversais. Why? We speak to the director and publish extracts from its pitch	0
From hijacker to media mogul	0
The unbeaten	0
When the old fox walks the tightrope	0
The Index	0
Poet who haunts Ukraine	0
Winning friends, making enemies, influencing people	0
Up in smoke: A semi-autobiographical story from the son of two of Argentina’s disappeared	0
Statues within a plinth of their life	0
Report first, talk later…	0
Fake it till you break it	0
Handmaid’s Tale in Holy Land	0
The Index	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
India’s Great Firewall	0
Press under pressure	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
Culture	0
Special Report	0
Special Report	0
Whistleblowers	0
I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust	0
The Qatar conundrum	0
Features	0
Don’t be afraid to say two plus two is four	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
Spinning bomb	0
People first but not the media	0
Moving the goalposts	0
Turkey’s standups sit down	0
Chaos censorship	0
Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold	0
The Index	0
A Cassandra worth heeding	0
Joke’s on Lukashenka speaking rubbish Belarusian. Or is it?	0
‘Threats will not silence me’	0
Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil	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
Crossing the line: Cartels trading in cocaine are taking violent action to stop journalists reporting on them	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
Culture	0
The woman who stopped Malta’s mafia taking over	0
Comment	0
Cigar smoke and mirrors	0
Features	0
Demand points of view: A new Index initiative has allowed people to debate about all of the issues we’re otherwise avoiding	0
Features	0
Palestine: I still have hope	0
Culture	0
Uncle is watching	0
Features	0
Setting the story straight	0
Writer’s block	0
Pinochet’s ghost still haunts	0
I can run, but can I hide?	0
Message marches into lives and homes	0
A race to the bottom	0
Knife-edge politics: An interview with Serbian journalist Ana Lalic, who forced the Serbian government to do a U-Turn	0
Stripsearch: Ping! Don’t forget we’re watching you… everywhere	0
A bulletin of frustration	0
Shot by both sides	0
Heart and sole	0
How much distance from Mao?	0
Lines of inquiry	0
Royal secrecy has no place in a democracy	0
Secrets, lies and a costly legal battle	0
The Russians risking it all	0
The smile that says a thousand words	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
Why should music be censorable?	0
Stripsearch: You’ve just signed away your freedom to dream in private	0
Let’s talk about sex	0
‘The Satanic Verses is the rude contrary of the authoritarian lie’	0
Manuscripts don’t burn	0
No country for anxious men	0
War of the airwaves	0
Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side	0
World loses titans of free speech: A look at the free speech advocates that recently passed away including Sir Harold Evans	0
Comment	0
Features	0
Not a slur	0
A marriage made in transgression	0
Turkey changes its tune	0
Secret agenda	0
Why the Taliban wanted my brave mother dead . . .	0
Reaching for an emotional flak jacket	0
Speaking up for the Uyghurs	0
Worshippers of power	0
A moral hazard	0
Russia’s Trojan horse moves closer to Europe	0
We academics must fight the mob – now	0
Are we becoming Hungary-lite?	0
America’s coolest members club	0
Taliban takeover jokes	0
The road of no return	0
Culture	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
Features	0
Smoke, fire and a media storm	0
Comment	0
Two letters	0
Why journalists need emergency safe havens	0
Driven towards the exit: As Bulgarian media is bought up by those with ties to the government, journalists are being forced out of the industry	0
America’s coming crucible	0
Soundtrack for a siege	0
Looking back to when we looked forward	0
Culture	0
Controlling the Covid message	0
Cancelling Russian culture is today’s moral imperative	0
Of conservatives, cancel culture and comics	0
Features	0
The democratic federation stands strong	0
Culture	0
Making foes out of friends: North Korea’s grave human rights record is off the negotiation table in talks with South Korea. Why?	0
Features	0
Nigeria’s crucible	0
Past imperfect	0
When comics came out	0
Conspiracy of silence	0
Will Paulina ever rest?	0
We are all dissidents	0
Think of the children	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
Laughing matters	0
In Iran women’s bodies are the battleground	0
The truth is in the telling	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
Becoming tongue-tied: China is one country that is forcing people to give up their minority languages. Others have also attempted it	0
Turning sorrow into satire	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
Bosnia on my mind	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