Fact checkers increasingly threatened and harassed. 72% of the organizations surveyed report experiencing harassment.
After death threats and insults online, the Croatian site Faktograf.hr must now resort to security measures. In India, Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of the digital investigative organization Alt News, denounced the "self-censorship" of the media. He was briefly jailed in 2022 after an anonymous Twitter user accused him of insulting a Hindu god in a four-year-old tweet.