The infrastructure for knowing what's happening is itself degrading

Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years. Over half the world's countries now fall into "difficult" or "very serious" categories. The legal criminalisation of journalism increased in 110 out of 180 countries. The share of humanity living where press freedom is "good": less than 1%. The Middle East and North Africa are "the most catastrophic" region for journalism; Gaza and the West Bank are "the most dangerous in the world," with 220 Palestinian journalists killed. At the same t ...