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I am a journalist and former news editor at The Times of India, now working independently to report on the intersection of gender, business, culture and social justice. I write deeply reported features rooted in South Asia that have a global resonance. A UN Fellow, my journalistic work has been published in BBC, The Guardian, IndieWire, Nikkei Asia, The Polis Project, The Hindu and several international publications and news websites. My journalism work has taken me across India, France, Portug…

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Magazine extract: India’s New Digital Censorship Ecosystem

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By Viren Naidu
| Index on Censorship Verified
Thank you for visiting the Index website. Your support means a lot to us. To preview our latest magazine, ‘Death by a thousand bots’, we hope you will enjoy this extract from Viren Naidu’s piece “India’s New Digital Censorship Ecosystem”. Our award-winning quarterly magazine is free to members. You can become a member and support the fight for free expression here. On January 9, 2025, journalist Anzer Ayoob received an unexpected email from X.
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Why Egypt silenced six journalists who dared to say "don't believe it"

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By Viren Naidu, Branislav Radeljić
| Index on Censorship Verified
Matsada2sh, Arabic for “don’t believe it”, was founded in 2018 to check the facts in a country where the official narrative goes largely unchallenged. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has repeatedly told his people to only believe what he says. What started as a fact-checking platform has since expanded into investigative reporting covering Egypt and other Arab countries, digging into everything from discrepancies in official figures to hidden cracks within state institutions.
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Six journalists detained as Egypt treats independent reporting as a security threat

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By Viren Naidu, Branislav Radeljić, Kaya Genç
| Index on Censorship Verified
At 12 noon on Friday, Cairo time, Eman Ouf, the rapporteur of the Women’s Committee and the Freedoms Committee at the Egyptian Press Syndicate, was rushing to the public prosecutor’s office. Technically, it was her day off, but the public prosecutor was working as normal, and she – along with other members of the syndicate’s board – feared that the six detained journalists who make up the editorial team of the fact-checking newsroom Matsada2sh would be brought before prosecutors without warning.
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What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Avoid AI, Be authentic, always factcheck