Now, More Than Ever, We Must Protect Our Free Press

Since World Press Freedom Day earlier this month, the world has continued to face two pandemics—one, a public health crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives to date; the other, a proliferation of false information that has helped the new coronavirus spread. As the Director-General of the World Health Organization put it: “We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic.”

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