Chart of the week: “Deep and disturbing” decline in media freedom
Mostly, governments actively try to curtail the free flow of information which in turn sinks the rankings of countries such as Turkey, China or North Korea. Also, difficult security situations or all-out war in certain states such as Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria bring their respective rankings down. Western countries fair relatively well, although you might expect the US and UK to do better.
RSF ranks 180 countries by a range of criteria such as pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative environment, transparency, infrastructure, and abuses.
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