Tag: West Papua
PNG Attitude: A farewell to eminent communicators
By Crosbie Walsh
The highlights of a symposium at the Pacific Media Centre of the Auckland University of Technology on 1 December 2020 -- West...
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...
PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua
Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...
Pacific media freedom under greater attack than ever
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva
With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
Pacific Media Watch
Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...