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'Decline' in press freedom: EU media landscape 'more concentrated, less transparent & less trusted'

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 102 words · By Video by Oliver FARRY
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What to know about 'Decline' in press freedom: EU media landscape 'more concentrated, less transparent & less trusted'

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Eva Simon, Head of Tech & Rights Program at Liberties.

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What happened

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Eva Simon, Head of Tech & Rights Program at Liberties.

Why it matters

Their report reveals a decline in media / press freedom across the EU.

Common ground

Drawing on data from 22 member states, she argues that the erosion of press freedom is part of a broader democratic decline.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Eva Simon, Head of Tech & Rights Program at Liberties”
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The evidence from the official Liberties website and other sources identifies Eva Simon as a 'senior advocacy officer' responsible for freedom of expression and privacy, not the 'Head of Tech & Rights Program'. While she holds a senior role in that field, the specific title provided in the claim is not supported by the evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Eva is a human rights lawyer with special focus on digital rights, currently working as a senior advocacy officer at Liberties. She is responsible for freedom of expression and privacy.
https://www.liberties.eu/en/about/core-team
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web search NEUTRAL — Eva Simon is a senior advocacy officer at the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties). Liberties is a Berlin-based EU watchdog organisation. Eva works on issues related to the field of freedom of…
https://informationlabs.org/podcasts/media-lab/evasimon-08no…
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web search NEUTRAL — Liberties is a Berlin-based EU watchdog organisation. Eva works on issues related to the field of freedom of expression and data protection. She is a human rights lawyer with a special focus on digita…
https://medialab.transistor.fm/episodes/1-1-with-eva-simon-8…
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Claim 2: “Drawing on data from 22 member states”
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While the evidence confirms the existence of the Liberties Media Freedom Report 2025, none of the provided search results specify the exact number of member states (22) that provided data. The Wikipedia result mentions the EU has 27 members in total, but does not confirm the specific sample size of the Liberties report.
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web search NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a supranational union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U…
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web search NEUTRAL — “The decline in press freedom goes hand in hand with a decline in the rule of law. There is a close correlation between the two. This is the modus operandi of authoritarian regimes.” Simon said the EU…
https://editored.org/2024/05/16/danger-to-press-freedom-in-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) released a report Monday calling out a number of European governments for what they are saying is a scientific “dismantling” of democratic norms and the ru…
https://yacak.com/civil-liberties-report-on-media-freedom-ca…
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Claim 3: “Their report reveals a decline in media / press freedom across the EU”
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Multiple independent sources, including the official Liberties website and external reports, confirm the existence of the 'Media Freedom Report 2025' and its conclusion that media freedom is 'crumbling' or declining across the EU.
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web search NEUTRAL — Media freedom is crumbling across the EU, according to Liberties' Media Freedom Report 2025, a collaboration of more than 40 human rights organisations from across the EU.
https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/mfr2025-blog/45389
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web search NEUTRAL — The Media Freedom Report 2025 (Report) is the fourth annual report on media freedom in the European Union (EU) produced by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties). It is based on data and inp…
https://www.rcmediafreedom.eu/Resources/Reports-and-papers/L…
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web search NEUTRAL — A free and pluralistic media ecosystem is nec-essary for strong and stable democracy, and eforts by governments to weaken the rule of law and democratic institutions almost always start by seeking to …
https://static.bianet.org/2025/04/liberties-media-freedom-re…
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