The following is the recorded audio from "Misinformation in the Near East" a webinar by The Charles Malik Institute, featuring guest speaker Uzay Bulut. 

Many of us have watched with bated breath over the past year as headlines roll out around the world, especially in the Near East, about government suppression and citizen unrest. With the democratization of communication in the internet age, repressive regimes have resorted to increasingly creative and draconian measures to suppress the free flow of accurate information and skirt accountability. Add to this the complicated moral landscape of big tech, and myriad more problems arise.

Nearly 75 years ago, Charles Malik and several other key authors drafted “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” in which the importance of media freedom was cemented. 

Most of us understand, with Malik, the importance of press freedom. But, it is much harder to articulate the exact problems and interest groups that interfere with it and, harder still, to navigate a path forward.

Listen to our webinar where we discuss these topics and more, titled “Misinformation in the Near East: How Government Repression Shapes Culture, Politics, and Belief on the Ground” with Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut. Her work on human rights in the Near East and related topics has appeared in numerous major media outlets.