Tag: media freedom
David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation
By Mediasia Iafor
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for...
New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament siege: QAnon and how social media disinformation manufactured an ‘alternate reality’
By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review
Fires burned across Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police on...
‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?
By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie
A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...
How the ‘voice of the voiceless’ kaupapa became derailed at the Pacific Media Centre
By David Robie, founding director of the Pacific Media Centre
It really is bizarre. After 26 months of wrangling, stakeholders’ representations and appeals by the...
Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence
COMMENT: By David Robie
The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.
At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
Melanesia: Facebook algorithms censor article about press freedom in West Papua
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity and urges...