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Each attack on a journalist is an attack on democracy itself.
On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, and beyond, we stand by all those who speak truth to power.
And we're taking action, having
🎤 Launched more than 100 projects in 56 countries
🤝 Directly supported close to 13,000 journalists at risk
⚖️ Set stronger safeguards through our European Media Freedom Act
@EUCommission
Stop pulling our leg
"Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths.
Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings in both 2025 and 2024.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992."
@EUCommission Do you know what protect journalists?
-> End to End Encryption
The very thing you are trying to destroy with #ChatContol
@EUCommission
You might want to look into what's happening in Portugal then:
https://sicnoticias.pt/economia/habitacao/2026-11-01-sindicato-dos-jornalistas-vai-fazer-queixa-contra-psp-por-agressoes-a-jornalistas-nas-acampadas-2589da4f
@EUCommission Cool, nice words! So Chat Control is definitely dead? European directives to wrest media ownership from right-wing billionaires are on the way? Concrete steps to get every EU member to a Democracy Score >80? Or just more PR fluff?
@EUCommission And how will Chat Control help with that?
Communication should remain private without exceptions!
@EUCommission add "silenced" and then fine the s*** out of several US big tech platforms
@EUCommission Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree, and wish this was mentioned in the chat control & age verification discourse!
@EUCommission Can you please stop this? We know that Israel has killed more journalists than any other nation, likely ever. EU nations have gone after journalists for speaking out against EU support for Israel. You don't stand for journalists, you don't care that they are getting killed and you support their killers and torturers, so can you stop this dystopian propaganda? https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129-press-members-killed-in-2025-israel-responsible-for-2-of-3-of-deaths/
@EUCommission Tell that to some friends of yours in the middle east
@EUCommission Is the issue that they're being killed or that they are being killed slow?
As if the issue would be impunity, then I would expect #ChatControl to not even be proposed. Including #EUKidsAct to restricts free anonymous access to information.
And it doesn't help that most politicians, whether in EP or national parliaments are attacking journalists with insults in public.
Not to mention police targeting people using GrapheneOS an very secured OS used by many journalists.
@EUCommission How about yourself, e.g. stop harassing Hüseyin Doğru?
EU is directly supplying the weapons IOF has used to kill hundreds of journalists. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mediacide-francesca-albanese-on-israels
How about ending arms export to israel, @EUCommission ?
@EUCommission boykotting Israel would be an actually helpful thing to do against the killing of journalists.