Mozambique lets companies answer unwelcome reporting with criminal, not civil, defamation complaints – threatening journalists with jail. Those exposing environmental crime and corruption are at particular risk.

Meta’s new terms, which go live on 30 October, let it scrape any website linked to a business account – nearly every newsroom – with no opt-out. Publishers are taking it to regulators.

The police raid and takeover of Halk TV, Turkey’s most-watched news channel, poses a grave threat to press freedom amid an intensifying clampdown on government critics.

Whistleblower Simon Andriesz spent years asking the FCA for protection. After his death, the UK regulator faces calls for an external inquiry – and for its chair to resign.

Newly unsealed and unredacted court filings reveal astonishing admissions by tech executives about the impact their wholesale pillage of proprietary content is having on original content creation.

People in 32 states faced alleged reprisals for talking to the UN, its latest report finds: surveilled, smeared, beaten, even stabbed – increasingly far from home.

OpenAI has begun publishing details of how its own models fabricate data, use leaked credentials and write themselves free of oversight.

As another AI researcher quits, warning of an existential risk to humanity, industry insiders demand enforceable treaties and a global licensing regime for superintelligence – before it’s too late.

Whistleblower Tumiso Mphuthi exposed corruption, was vindicated by subsequent investigations, then fired anyway. South Africa’s protections remain “performative political theatre”.

Google is moving its 90-person AI responsibility team out of DeepMind into global affairs, fuelling fears that the shift will compromise access, independence and threat-detection ability.

Professor Egbuna Olakunle Obidike, the architect of Gambian paediatrics whose training programme caught the toxic cough syrup poisoning children worldwide, has passed away. Tributes are pouring in.

Europe’s AI Act enters enforcement with nine banned practices, high-risk safeguards, mandatory watermarking, clearly labelled deepfakes and fines for non-compliance of up to 3% of global turnover.