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Media group warns of 'fatal danger' to democracies

Polarization fueled by Fox News-like opinion media, disinformation and propaganda is battering democracies, Reporters Without Borders said.

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova interrupts Russian broadcast with a poster demanding an end to war in Ukraine
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova interrupts Russia's Channel One broadcast in March with a poster demanding an end to war in Ukraine (AN/BBC/Channel One)

GENEVA (AN) — Democracies are battered by growing polarization among citizens fueled by Fox News-like opinion media and the spread of disinformation and propaganda, Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday in a report launched to coincide with World Press Freedom Day.

At a ceremony to mark the occasion, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned against nations increasingly resorting to surveillance to prevent journalists from shedding light on wrongdoing.

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