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How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism: Columbia Journalism Review

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Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Date Published: 2025-10-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Alyson Bruce

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A brief commentary cites Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim warning that cybercrime and misinformation laws are being used to repress journalism, and that similar measures in democratic countries could legitimize authoritarian controls. Lim argues these laws will likely fail to curtail misinformation while expanding government authority to police content labeled as false or misleading.

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