Topic evidence / NEWS

Press freedomBy country.

Independent news outlets, journalism, and press-freedom organizations.

Response generated: 2026-10-08 16:53:38.397751Z

Relative category volumeSame category.
Different evidence counts.

Russia100798 evidence rows China96769 evidence rows India56448 evidence rows Venezuela55442 evidence rows Bangladesh55438 evidence rows Iran54433 evidence rows Singapore54429 evidence rows

0–100 relative index. Higher means more categorized evidence, not more certain blocking.

01 / Inside the category

Follow each record.

All returned country entries are available. Rank and source labels are preserved.

68reported country entries

9,096categorized evidence rows

Counts are from the topic response. They do not measure people, national coverage or confirmed blocks.

68 matching entries of 68 readable returned records. The source “free” label is not proof of access.

#1
Russia ↗
RU
Relative index100Source band: severe
Evidence rows798
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#2
China ↗
CN
Relative index96Source band: severe
Evidence rows769
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#3
India ↗
IN
Relative index56Source band: high
Evidence rows448
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#4
Venezuela ↗
VE
Relative index55Source band: high
Evidence rows442
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#5
Bangladesh ↗
BD
Relative index55Source band: high
Evidence rows438
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#6
Iran ↗
IR
Relative index54Source band: high
Evidence rows433
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#7
Singapore ↗
SG
Relative index54Source band: high
Evidence rows429
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#8
Turkey ↗
TR
Relative index50Source band: high
Evidence rows396
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#9
Kazakhstan ↗
KZ
Relative index45Source band: medium
Evidence rows363
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#10
Malaysia ↗
MY
Relative index44Source band: medium
Evidence rows352
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#11
Thailand ↗
TH
Relative index43Source band: medium
Evidence rows341
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#12
Vietnam ↗
VN
Relative index41Source band: medium
Evidence rows324
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#13
Indonesia ↗
ID
Relative index39Source band: medium
Evidence rows315
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#14
Saudi Arabia ↗
SA
Relative index39Source band: medium
Evidence rows314
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#15
United Arab Emirates ↗
AE
Relative index39Source band: medium
Evidence rows313
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#16
Pakistan ↗
PK
Relative index38Source band: medium
Evidence rows302
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#17
Qatar ↗
QA
Relative index36Source band: medium
Evidence rows287
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#18
Egypt ↗
EG
Relative index33Source band: medium
Evidence rows264
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#19
Azerbaijan ↗
AZ
Relative index30Source band: medium
Evidence rows236
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#20
Morocco ↗
MA
Relative index29Source band: medium
Evidence rows229
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#21
Belarus ↗
BY
Relative index23Source band: low
Evidence rows185
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#22
Cuba ↗
CU
Relative index14Source band: low
Evidence rows113
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#23
South Africa ↗
ZA
Relative index9Source band: free
Evidence rows74
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#24
Romania ↗
RO
Relative index7Source band: free
Evidence rows58
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#25
France ↗
FR
Relative index7Source band: free
Evidence rows52
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#26
United States ↗
US
Relative index5Source band: free
Evidence rows42
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#27
Brazil ↗
BR
Relative index5Source band: free
Evidence rows39
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#28
Jordan ↗
JO
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows35
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#29
Netherlands ↗
NL
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows34
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#30
Canada ↗
CA
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows33
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#31
Japan ↗
JP
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows33
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#32
Kuwait ↗
KW
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows30
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#33
Mexico ↗
MX
Relative index4Source band: free
Evidence rows28
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#34
South Korea ↗
KR
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows25
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#35
Spain ↗
ES
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows24
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#36
Australia ↗
AU
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows23
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#37
United Kingdom ↗
GB
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows22
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#38
Syria ↗
SY
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows21
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#39
Germany ↗
DE
Relative index3Source band: free
Evidence rows20
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#40
Belgium ↗
BE
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows18
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#41
Finland ↗
FI
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows18
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#42
Norway ↗
NO
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows18
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#43
Poland ↗
PL
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows18
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#44
Sweden ↗
SE
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows18
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#45
Austria ↗
AT
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#46
Switzerland ↗
CH
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#47
Colombia ↗
CO
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#48
Ireland ↗
IE
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#49
Iraq ↗
IQ
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#50
Portugal ↗
PT
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows17
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#51
Czechia ↗
CZ
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#52
Greece ↗
GR
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#53
Italy ↗
IT
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#54
Myanmar ↗
MM
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#55
New Zealand ↗
NZ
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#56
Uzbekistan ↗
UZ
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows16
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#57
Argentina ↗
AR
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows15
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#58
Denmark ↗
DK
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows15
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#59
Cambodia ↗
KH
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows15
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#60
Ethiopia ↗
ET
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows14
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#61
Libya ↗
LY
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows14
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#62
DR Congo ↗
CD
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows13
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#63
Tanzania ↗
TZ
Relative index2Source band: free
Evidence rows12
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#64
Cameroon ↗
CM
Relative index1Source band: free
Evidence rows10
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#65
Algeria ↗
DZ
Relative index1Source band: free
Evidence rows7
5 source domains + record fields
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#66
Rwanda ↗
RW
Relative index1Source band: free
Evidence rows7
1 source domains + record fields
- medium.com ↗
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#67
Bahrain ↗
BH
Relative index0Source band: free
Evidence rows1
1 source domains + record fields
- medium.com ↗
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).
#68
Nicaragua ↗
NI
Relative index0Source band: free
Evidence rows1
1 source domains + record fields
- substack.com ↗
Source trend: stable (the checked-in source uses a constant stable label).

02 / Why this topic matters

Press freedom & journalism

Independent news outlets, journalism, and press-freedom organizations.

Topic context from the original guide

The NEWS category covers independent newsrooms, international press, and press-freedom organizations. Blocking these sites silences independent reporting — and is one of the strongest leading indicators of broader internet repression.

This editorial context explains the subject. The evidence-volume index does not establish intent, sequence, current restrictions or national scope.

Example domains & category boundary

These are examples from the original topic guide, not findings that these domains are blocked now or everywhere.

bbc.com ↗reuters.com ↗aljazeera.com ↗voanews.com ↗

Page slugpress-freedom

API topicpress

CategoryNEWS

NEWS groups categorized news domains. This response does not measure press freedom itself or distinguish editorial independence for each domain.

Citizen Lab category source ↗

03 / Keep the method attached

What the index can say.

How to read the category evidence

The checked-in topic query counts all evidence rows assigned to one Citizen Lab category and groups them by country. It does not filter those rows by a blocking signal or observation date. Evidence volume therefore does not establish a confirmed block, intent or national coverage.

Relative index: round(country evidence count × 100 ÷ largest country count in this category). It is a ratio to the maximum, even though the API names its scoring method “percentile_against_max_in_category”. Scores are not comparable across topics as a measure of censorship severity. A rounded score of zero can still have evidence rows.

Source bands: severe ≥70, high ≥50, medium ≥25, low ≥10, free below 10 in the checked-in handler. These names are retained as source labels. “Free” is not a finding that a country permits access; “severe” is not independent confirmation of broad censorship.

Domains: the response field named blocked contains frequent domains in the category evidence query. It does not prove that each listed domain is blocked. The endpoint currently returns up to five per country; all returned values appear here.

Trend: the checked-in handler always emits “stable”. This preview retains that field in each record without drawing a movement chart or implying that conditions were unchanged.

Time: generated_at_utc and dateModified are set when the endpoint builds its response. They are not the latest measurement date. No observation window is inferred; source caching for five minutes is not a promise of new evidence every five minutes.

The source ecosystem includes OONI, Censored Planet, IODA and Voidly probes. This category response does not identify every contributing source. Domain categories follow the Citizen Lab test lists; example domains and returned domains have different meanings.

Voidly original material: CC BY 4.0. Upstream source terms remain applicable. Full methodology ↗

Source metadata, dates & consistency

metadata.generated_at_utc: 2026-10-08 16:53:38.397751Z

dateModified (response field): 2026-10-08 16:53:38.397751Z

Observation window begins: unavailable

Observation window ends: unavailable

Source scoring method: percentile_against_max_in_category.

Source scoring note: score = round(country_count * 100 / max_country_count). Max in this category: 798 (Russia)..

Reported band counts

severe: 2
high: 6
medium: 12
low: 2
free: 46

No count/field inconsistency was detected in the returned entries. That check does not establish source completeness.

Complete original topic response

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "category": "NEWS",
  "countries": [
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "substack.com"
      ],
      "code": "RU",
      "country": "Russia",
      "level": "severe",
      "rank": 1,
      "samples": 798,
      "score": 100,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "substack.com"
      ],
      "code": "CN",
      "country": "China",
      "level": "severe",
      "rank": 2,
      "samples": 769,
      "score": 96,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "IN",
      "country": "India",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 3,
      "samples": 448,
      "score": 56,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "VE",
      "country": "Venezuela",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 4,
      "samples": 442,
      "score": 55,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "BD",
      "country": "Bangladesh",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 5,
      "samples": 438,
      "score": 55,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "bbc.com",
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "IR",
      "country": "Iran",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 6,
      "samples": 433,
      "score": 54,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "SG",
      "country": "Singapore",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 7,
      "samples": 429,
      "score": 54,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "substack.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "TR",
      "country": "Turkey",
      "level": "high",
      "rank": 8,
      "samples": 396,
      "score": 50,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "substack.com",
        "theguardian.com"
      ],
      "code": "KZ",
      "country": "Kazakhstan",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 9,
      "samples": 363,
      "score": 45,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "MY",
      "country": "Malaysia",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 10,
      "samples": 352,
      "score": 44,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "TH",
      "country": "Thailand",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 11,
      "samples": 341,
      "score": 43,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "medium.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "VN",
      "country": "Vietnam",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 12,
      "samples": 324,
      "score": 41,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "ID",
      "country": "Indonesia",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 13,
      "samples": 315,
      "score": 39,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com",
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "SA",
      "country": "Saudi Arabia",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 14,
      "samples": 314,
      "score": 39,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "AE",
      "country": "United Arab Emirates",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 15,
      "samples": 313,
      "score": 39,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "substack.com"
      ],
      "code": "PK",
      "country": "Pakistan",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 16,
      "samples": 302,
      "score": 38,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com",
        "medium.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "QA",
      "country": "Qatar",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 17,
      "samples": 287,
      "score": 36,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "medium.com"
      ],
      "code": "EG",
      "country": "Egypt",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 18,
      "samples": 264,
      "score": 33,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "bbc.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "substack.com",
        "medium.com"
      ],
      "code": "AZ",
      "country": "Azerbaijan",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 19,
      "samples": 236,
      "score": 30,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com",
        "medium.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "MA",
      "country": "Morocco",
      "level": "medium",
      "rank": 20,
      "samples": 229,
      "score": 29,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "bbc.com",
        "substack.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "medium.com"
      ],
      "code": "BY",
      "country": "Belarus",
      "level": "low",
      "rank": 21,
      "samples": 185,
      "score": 23,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "substack.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "bbc.com"
      ],
      "code": "CU",
      "country": "Cuba",
      "level": "low",
      "rank": 22,
      "samples": 113,
      "score": 14,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.nytimes.com",
        "www.bbc.co.uk",
        "www.bbc.com",
        "www.dailymail.co.uk",
        "www.theguardian.com"
      ],
      "code": "ZA",
      "country": "South Africa",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 23,
      "samples": 74,
      "score": 9,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "voanews.com",
        "theguardian.com",
        "substack.com",
        "rferl.org",
        "reuters.com"
      ],
      "code": "RO",
      "country": "Romania",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 24,
      "samples": 58,
      "score": 7,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "reuters.com",
        "cnn.com",
        "bbc.com",
        "substack.com",
        "www.theguardian.com"
      ],
      "code": "FR",
      "country": "France",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 25,
      "samples": 52,
      "score": 7,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.dailymail.co.uk",
        "pt.wikipedia.org",
        "www.voanews.com",
        "www.theguardian.com",
        "www.rferl.org"
      ],
      "code": "US",
      "country": "United States",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 26,
      "samples": 42,
      "score": 5,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.dailymail.co.uk",
        "aljazeera.com",
        "reuters.com",
        "www.voanews.com",
        "dw.com"
      ],
      "code": "BR",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 27,
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        "bbc.com"
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      "country": "South Korea",
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    },
    {
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        "www.reuters.com"
      ],
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      "country": "Germany",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 39,
      "samples": 20,
      "score": 3,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
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      "country": "Belgium",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 40,
      "samples": 18,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.rferl.org",
        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "FI",
      "country": "Finland",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 41,
      "samples": 18,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "NO",
      "country": "Norway",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 42,
      "samples": 18,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
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      "country": "Poland",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 43,
      "samples": 18,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "sv.wikipedia.org",
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        "www.theguardian.com",
        "www.rferl.org",
        "www.reuters.com"
      ],
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      "country": "Sweden",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 44,
      "samples": 18,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
        "www.theguardian.com",
        "www.rferl.org",
        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "AT",
      "country": "Austria",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 45,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
        "www.theguardian.com",
        "www.rferl.org",
        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "CH",
      "country": "Switzerland",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 46,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "CO",
      "country": "Colombia",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 47,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
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        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
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      "country": "Ireland",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 48,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
        "www.theguardian.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
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      "country": "Iraq",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 49,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
        "www.theguardian.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
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      "country": "Portugal",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 50,
      "samples": 17,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
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      "code": "CZ",
      "country": "Czechia",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 51,
      "samples": 16,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
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        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
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      "country": "Greece",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 52,
      "samples": 16,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
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        "www.voanews.com",
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        "www.rferl.org",
        "www.reuters.com",
        "www.nytimes.com"
      ],
      "code": "IT",
      "country": "Italy",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 53,
      "samples": 16,
      "score": 2,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
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        "www.voanews.com",
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      "country": "Myanmar",
      "level": "free",
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    },
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      ],
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      "country": "New Zealand",
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      "score": 2,
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    },
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      ],
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      "country": "Argentina",
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      "score": 2,
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        "www.france24.com"
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        "www.nytimes.com"
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      ],
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    },
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        "www.nytimes.com",
        "www.france24.com",
        "www.dw.com"
      ],
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      "level": "free",
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      "score": 1,
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    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "www.bbc.com",
        "www.bbc.co.uk",
        "www.aljazeera.net",
        "www.aljazeera.com",
        "substack.com"
      ],
      "code": "DZ",
      "country": "Algeria",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 65,
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      "score": 1,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com"
      ],
      "code": "RW",
      "country": "Rwanda",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 66,
      "samples": 7,
      "score": 1,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "medium.com"
      ],
      "code": "BH",
      "country": "Bahrain",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 67,
      "samples": 1,
      "score": 0,
      "trend": "stable"
    },
    {
      "blocked": [
        "substack.com"
      ],
      "code": "NI",
      "country": "Nicaragua",
      "level": "free",
      "rank": 68,
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      "score": 0,
      "trend": "stable"
    }
  ],
  "dateModified": "2026-10-08T16:53:38.397751Z",
  "description": "Country censorship rankings filtered to Citizen Lab category NEWS.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "metadata": {
    "category": "NEWS",
    "countriesWithData": 68,
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-10-08T16:53:38.397751Z",
    "scoringMethod": "percentile_against_max_in_category",
    "scoringNote": "score = round(country_count * 100 / max_country_count). Max in this category: 798 (Russia).",
    "topic": "press",
    "totalCategorizedEvidence": 9096
  },
  "name": "Voidly Topic Censorship Index (NEWS)",
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Voidly Research",
    "url": "https://voidly.ai"
  },
  "summary": {
    "freeCount": 46,
    "highCount": 6,
    "lowCount": 2,
    "mediumCount": 12,
    "severeCount": 2
  },
  "topic": "press",
  "url": "https://voidly.ai/censorship-index"
}

Open complete source JSON ↗

04 / Use the evidence

The right topic URL.

Page slugpress-freedom

API topicpress

CategoryNEWS

Topic API URL

curl & JavaScript

The public JSON endpoint does not require an API key. Its current cache header is five minutes; this is not a guarantee of new measurements.

curl 'https://api.voidly.ai/data/censorship-index.json?topic=press'

const response = await fetch('https://api.voidly.ai/data/censorship-index.json?topic=press')
if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Topic source unavailable')
const data = await response.json()
console.log(data.countries)

API docs ↗Open data ↗Methodology ↗

Topic embed: current limitation

The original guide supplied the iframe below. The current widget reads country, theme and size, but ignores topic and defaults to a country view. This snippet is retained for reference; it does not currently deliver a topic ranking. No iframe is loaded here.

<iframe
  src="https://voidly.ai/widget/embed?topic=press-freedom"
  width="100%"
  height="500"
  frameborder="0"
  title="Voidly censorship: Press freedom">
</iframe>

Use the working category API above for a topic-specific integration. The existing country widget has a measurement option; review its settings before embedding.

Open the widget builder ↗

05 / Share a traceable reference

Keep the source in view.

Canonical topic URL

APA citation

Voidly Research. (n.d.). Press freedom — category evidence by country. Voidly. Retrieved 2026-10-08, from https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom

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BibTeX

@misc{voidly-topic-press-freedom,
  author       = {{Voidly Research}},
  title        = {Press freedom — category evidence by country},
  url          = {https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom},
  urldate      = {2026-10-08},
  organization = {Voidly},
  note         = {Voidly reference. Publication date not supplied. Voidly original material: CC BY 4.0; upstream material retains its own terms.}
}

APA

Voidly Research. (n.d.). Press freedom — category evidence by country. Voidly. Retrieved 2026-10-08, from https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom

Chicago (Author-Date)

Voidly Research. n.d.. “Press freedom — category evidence by country.” Voidly. Accessed 2026-10-08. https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom.

MLA

Voidly Research. “Press freedom — category evidence by country.” Voidly, https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom. Accessed 2026-10-08.

Markdown

[Press freedom — category evidence by country](https://voidly.ai/topics/press-freedom) — Voidly Research, n.d.. Accessed 2026-10-08. Voidly original material: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); upstream terms apply.

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