Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in
part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the
watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released
Thursday.
“There has been an overall deterioration linked to very different
factors, with information wars, and action by non-state groups acting like news
despots,” the head of the Paris-based group, Christophe Deloire, told AFP.
The Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom Index stated that
there was an eight percent increase in the violations of freedom of information
in 180 countries in 2014 compared to the 2013, according to its statistically
weighted calculation.
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Source: The Jakarta Post
