{"id":310031,"date":"2026-11-03T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=310031"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:00:48","slug":"from-aliyev-to-meta-and-elon-musk-rsf-unveils-its-list-of-predators-of-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/310031\/","title":{"rendered":"From Aliyev to Meta and Elon Musk: RSF unveils its list of \u201cpredators of press freedom\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/2026-press-freedom-predators-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reporters Without Borders<\/a> (RSF) is profiling 33 &ldquo;press freedom predators&rdquo; who targeted journalists and media outlets in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom. Their weapons may differ, but their goals are the same: to silence independent voices and trample on the right to information. Their methods to muzzle the press include assassinations, imprisonments, propaganda and troll armies. This tongue-in-cheek awards list highlights the diversity and brutality of the tactics used to stifle journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;Predators of Press Freedom&rdquo; have been classified into several categories: politics, security forces, law, business and society.<\/p>\n<p>The political category includes leaders such as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In the security forces category, the list of &ldquo;predators&rdquo; includes the Israel Defense Forces, the Chinese Communist Party, Burkina Faso&rsquo;s military junta, and others.<\/p>\n<p>In the legal category, those accused of suppressing the press include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo&#287;an and Kazakhstan&rsquo;s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.<\/p>\n<p>Among those accused of silencing the press through economic means are Alphabet and Meta, as well as former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In the societal category, the figures labelled as &ldquo;predators&rdquo; include media executive Margarita Simonyan and businessman Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is profiling 33 &ldquo;press freedom predators&rdquo; who targeted journalists and media outlets in 2026. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom. Their weapons may differ, but their goals are the same: to silence independent voices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":310024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310032,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310031\/revisions\/310032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}