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As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.

The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.

#journalism #democracy #freepress

rsf.org/en/index

@claesdevreese map showing most of North America, Europe, large part of Africa, and a bit of South America. Countries colored based on World Press Freedom Index rank.

List of first 14 countries on a panel:

1. Norway
2. Denmark
3. Sweden
4. Netherlands
5. Finland
6. Estonia
7. Portugal
8. Ireland
9. Switzerland
10. Germany
11. Luxembourg
12. Latvia
13. Lithuania
14. Canada

@rysiek @claesdevreese

Any chance the EU would consider responding to stupid US economic attacks with a free press service like voice of america was initially intended for?

@rysiek @claesdevreese

I was hoping too... I feel like the US is getting to be trapped in a web of lies due to all the regime supporting oligarch owned news.