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Incidents: funding and ownership pressure
Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.
6 incidents match this view.
| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
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| August 4, 2026 | Russia: law on asset freezes and service denials for exiled "foreign agents", August 2026 | Russia | Official labels | Vladimir Putin | Sustained (August 4, 2026) |
| April 2026 | El Salvador: freeze on assets of shareholders in El Faro's parent company, February to April 2026 | El Salvador | Funding and ownership pressure | Nayib Bukele | Sustained (May 8, 2026) |
| September 17, 2025 | United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Reversed (September 23, 2025) |
| May 1, 2025 | United States: Executive Order 14290 directing an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS, May 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Unknown |
| March 15, 2025 | United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (March 28, 2025) |
| December 20, 2023 | Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023 | Hungary | Official labels | Viktor Orban | Reversed (June 30, 2026) |
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