The War On News

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Claim 277

Sanctions included fines, written reprimands and forced public apologies.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement
Sanctions included fines, written reprimands and forced public apologies.
Field
action
Value
Sanctions broken down by type
About
incident 2013-ecuador-communications-law-supercom
Source
Ecuador's communications law has sanctioned 675 media outlets and journalists in four years
Publisher
LatAm Journalism Review, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Method
outlet report
Checked
2026-09-22
Confidence
medium
Status
current
Source date
2017-06-25

Quotation from the source

324 have been fines, 137 have been written reprimands and 54 have been cases in which the entity or person was forced to offer a public apology.