While Trump spews lies next door, countries join forces here for global media freedom

The pandemic, coupled with the rise in illiberal political movements, has made the future of free-flowing information and facts more in doubt than ever.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in Ottawa on Nov. 13, told the Global Conference for Media Freedom on Nov. 16 that press freedom is a fundamental building block of democracy and stressed the need to push back against disinformation.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 18, 2020

OTTAWA—It’s hard to imagine a more pressing context for a conference on media freedom than a moment when the president of the United States is engaged in a full-scale campaign to reverse the truth about an election he lost. On Nov. 15, nearly two weeks after Donald Trump was defeated at the pol...

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