Drivers of Global Disorder Today 🌍 Media freedom, & access to information, are fundamental rights at the heart of open societies. Yet in 2025 they are under attack more than ever before. Mel Bunce explores this topic for our mini-series w/City St George's 1/5 ➡️ shorturl.at/TqQsA - ThreadSky

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fpcthinktank.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Drivers of Global Disorder Today 🌍

Media freedom, & access to information, are fundamental rights at the heart of open societies. Yet in 2025 they are under attack more than ever before.

Mel Bunce explores this topic for our mini-series w/City St George's 1/5

➡️ https://shorturl.at/TqQsA

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fpcthinktank.bsky.social•30 days ago

Mel Bunce 🗣️
"Famously, during his 2024 Presidential election campaign, Donald Trump said he wanted to jail journalists and close down major news networks. At one rally, he even joked that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him." 2/5

fpcthinktank.bsky.social•30 days ago

As Mel explains, journalists being able to freely report on issues is fundamental to democratic society, yet they have rapidly become targets of states, political elites + technology oligarchs. At the same time the news industry is facing extreme economic pressure. 3/5

fpcthinktank.bsky.social•30 days ago

📢 “Governments that seize and silence the media face less scrutiny; and it becomes easier to disregard the rights and freedoms of citizens and manipulate election outcomes....”

We have also become more 'vulnerable' to mis- and disinformation. 4/5

fpcthinktank.bsky.social•30 days ago

You can read our full series in collaboration w/ City St George's, University London - covering drivers such as US predominance, AI, the crisis in the rule of law, and the rise of alternative multilaterism - here ⬇️ 5/5

https://fpc.org.uk/publications/drivers-of-global-disorder-today/

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