Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, color, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristic. In law, hate speech is…
Source: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas – By Natalia Mazotte Journalists working for big media companies and their independent blogger colleagues are facing the same problem: the risk of lawsuits for their work. Carlos Santos, an independent journalist…
Source: BrazzilMag Brazilian freelance journalist and blogger Carlos Santos based in Mossoró, a town in Brazil’s northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered to pay 6,000 reais (3,600 euros) to charities for posting three allegedly defamatory comments about…
On this day in 1984, a huge explosion destroys a shantytown in Brazil, killing at least 500 people, mostly young children. An investigation into the disaster later revealed that the true death count was impossible to know because so many…
Source: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas – By Adriana Prado The site Midiamax, a digital newspaper in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, said in a message sent to the Brazilian Press Association (ABI in Portuguese)…
Censorship in America 