WASHINGTON: Eritrea is the world's worst country for press censorship, a media watchdog said on Tuesday in a report which also cites extreme measures in nine other countries including North Korea, China and Saudi Arabia.
The rankings were based on factors including restrictions on privately owned or independent media; criminal defamation laws; restrictions on the dissemination of false news; blocking of websites; surveillance of journalists by authorities; license requirements for media; and targeted hacking or trolling.
It noted that in other countries including war-ravaged nations such as Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, conditions for the media are"extremely difficult, but not necessarily attributable solely to government censorship".
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