East Asia

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

17 December 2025

A Filipino journalist pushes back against red-tagging and disinformation by taking on Meta

Written by Mong Palatino, IFEX

13 December 2025

Five years of fighting: The state of digital violence against female journalists and activists in Indonesia

Written by Irma Garnesia

15 November 2025

Laura Jasper on the AI threat: It’s not just fake news, it’s personalized political warfare

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

14 November 2025

Stories about East Asia

Do you follow?: How technology can exacerbate ‘information disorder’

‘It is very, very difficult to dislodge [misinformation] from your brain’

Written by Safa, Tactical Tech

10 November 2025

The AI divide: Can the West foster a fair and democratic process for AI governance?

Benefits and opportunities must be more equally distributed in today’s digital economy

Written by Abdallah Abdallah

7 November 2025

Macau independent news outlet announces closure following government deregistration

The Macau government said: This media ‘no longer has the legal basis for conducting relevant activities.’

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

7 November 2025

How civil society groups and activists are planning to reclaim civic space in Vietnam

Many in the international community are unaware of Vietnam’s authoritarian status and policies

Written by Mong Palatino

25 October 2025

Defamation charges filed against those who exposed the billion-dollar scam network in Thailand and Cambodia

Reporters found connections between an alleged scammer and money launderer and Thai government officials

Written by Mong Palatino

15 October 2025

Australian researcher arrested in Thailand for allegedly defaming Malaysian government

Murray Hunter's case is the latest example of transnational repression in Southeast Asia

Written by Mong Palatino

8 October 2025

How a Chinese company exports the Great Firewall to autocratic regimes

Xinjiang has become a testing ground for new surveillance technologies

Written by Global Voices East Asia

18 September 2025

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

Written by Yasemin Yam

5 September 2025

When digital democracy disappears, so does the power of the people

When civil society is pushed offline, what’s lost isn’t just voices, but history, memory, resistance, and possibility

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

23 August 2025

Chinese digital propaganda in Central America

This report is the first of its kind to take a in-depth look at Chinese soft power in Central America

Written by ProBox

Translated by Melissa Vida

28 July 2025

Thai activist lawyer Anon Nampa faces over 29 years in prison over ‘Royal Insult’

He has been detained at the Bangkok Remand Prison since September 2023

Written by Prachatai

17 July 2025

Malaysian human rights activists celebrate victories while noting that free speech challenges remain

The victories concerned the Malaysia Media Council, a fatwa, and the right to protest

Written by Mong Palatino

15 July 2025

China is rushing to develop its AI-powered censorship system

Written by Yasemin Yam

2 July 2025

Media coalition condemns denial of jail visit to detained Filipino journalist

Media watchdog representatives were prevented by Philippine authorities from visiting journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio

Written by Kodao Productions

26 June 2025

Vietnam's Telegram ban: Cybersecurity or censorship?

Authorities said 70 percent of Telegram channels are linked to illegal content

Written by Mong Palatino

24 June 2025

Filipino artists reject Senate bill expanding powers of film and TV regulating body

The bill allows the government to regulate TV programs and movies streamed online

Written by Mong Palatino

17 June 2025

Hong Kong police inadvertently promote a Taiwanese online game with a warning against ‘secessionist’ content

Reversed Front said the game was the most downloaded app on Hong Kong’s App Store before its removal

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

11 June 2025

Jailed Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces new foreign collusion charges

Wong's latest charge was viewed as a disturbing sign of Hong Kong’s deteriorating human rights

Written by Oiwan Lam

9 June 2025

Cambodian journalist faces more than a dozen charges after reporting on deforestation

He documented illegal logging but was eventually charged with the same crime

Written by Mong Palatino

5 June 2025

Hong Kong’s independent media sector is being penalised with unreasonable backdated tax demands

The Committee to Protect Journalists called the practice ‘a weaponization of financial and tax measures against the press’

Written by Oiwan Lam

29 May 2025

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