The fight against disinformation is necessary in the face of the pandemic, admitted the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, on Friday 3 April. "Regrettably some governments are using this imperative as a pretext to introduce disproportionate restrictions to press freedom", she said. In her view, this approach must stop, as it "hampers the work of the media" and "restricts" the right to information.
The following examples are cited: - the Russian Federation and...