Chilling statements by HonestReporting Canada
New Canada Press Freedom Project data:
HonestReporting Canada has targeted at least 384 individual media workers with almost 700 publications since Oct. 2023. CPFP is tracking these incidents as “chilling statements” in our database of press freedom infringements.
Media workers and newsrooms reporting on Israel and Palestine are being flooded with messages after being named in HonestReporting Canada pressure campaigns. Since Oct. 2023, HRC has relentlessly targeted the media, posting about twice a day —?nearly 700 alerts total.
This number only includes posts which name individual media workers or newsrooms and which also include a means to contact them.?
The organization says it aims to “control the narrative” by monitoring media and mobilizing complaints about reporting it sees as anti-Israel.?
Journalists targeted by these campaigns tell CPFP that HRC is weaponizing antisemitism to shut down reporting critical of Israel, and in the process provoking torrents of online harassment.?
Media workers have received hundreds of messages after being named in these campaigns, including one student journalist who received 1,500 emails in a single day.?
Journalists have described the aftermath of being targeted by HRC and its chilling effects.
CPFP is continuing to speak with media workers who have been targeted by HonestReporting Canada. Want to talk? Get in touch here:
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1 个月It should be renamed 'Dishonest Reporting' and must not be subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, as it currently is. The CRA must investigate and revoke its charitable status. Thank you, J-Source, for sharing this."