{"id":26029,"date":"2021-02-04T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6707e05246265da4a80e8a8fe4f2757a"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:29:00","slug":"twitter-arbitrarily-blocks-south-african-newsweekly-and-several-reporters-over-covid-vaccine-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/twitter-arbitrarily-blocks-south-african-newsweekly-and-several-reporters-over-covid-vaccine-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter arbitrarily blocks South African newsweekly and several reporters over Covid vaccine story"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by Twitter\u2019s arbitrary and baseless blocking of the accounts of a prestigious South African newsweekly and several journalists in connection with a story about Covid-19 vaccines. This disturbing violation of the freedom to inform highlights the dangers of failing to impose democratic obligations on all-powerful online platforms, RSF says. <\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p><span class=\"s1\">Twitter suspended <i>The Continent <\/i>newsweekly\u2019s access to its account on 30 January for supposedly \u201cspreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/twitter-arbitrarily-blocks-south-african-newsweekly-and-several-reporters-over-covid-vaccine-story\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by Twitter\u2019s arbitrary and baseless blocking of the accounts of a prestigious South African newsweekly and several journalists in connection with a story about Covid-19 vaccines. This disturbing violation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26101,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}