Over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom, according to RSF Index.
“The average score for all countries and territories worldwide has never been so low” in 25 years.
The U.S. ranks 64th out of 180 countries; the worst ever recorded.
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low?data_type=general&year=2026
@freedomofpress I get the feeling that this does not take into account self-censoring of the press. In sweden, the mainstream basically are in bed with the politicians, since they get a lot of money through government support. That means that questions and ideologies outside of mainstream, western european socialism gets little to no treatment by the press.
Sure, nominally, the press is free in sweden, but due to their dependence on the government,
@freedomofpress they self-censor and refuse to investigate a lot of questions so as not to anger the politicians.