{"id":277968,"date":"2019-06-04T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV6ZWdhLmNvbS9OZXdzL05ld3NEZXRhaWxzLzcxMjQvRXRoaW9waWFuLUdvdmVybm1lbnQtQ29uc2lkZXJpbmctdG8tRW5hY3QtYS1OZXctTWVkaWEtTGF30gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:08","slug":"ezega-reported-the-ethiopian-government-was-drafting-a-new-media-and-hate-speech-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277968","title":{"rendered":"Ezega reported the Ethiopian government was drafting a new media and hate-speech law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early June 2019 Ezega reported that the Ethiopian government was considering a new law aimed at what officials called disinformation and hate speech on social media.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ezega reported the Ethiopian government was drafting a new media and hate-speech law\" \/>\n<p>The draft sat at the center of a wider fight over how far the state should police online speech after years of closed media and a sudden opening under Abiy Ahmed, so local coverage of the proposal still matters for press-freedom readers.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as media and politics archive, the Ezega report dates the government\u2019s public move toward a hate-speech and misinformation statute in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezega.com\/News\/NewsDetails\/7124\/Ethiopian-Government-Considering-to-Enact-New-Media-Law\">Ezega<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Government Considering to Enact New Media Law&nbsp;&nbsp;EzegaJune 3, 2019 (Ezega.com) &#8212; The Ethiopian government is considering to enact a new law to combat what it called disinformation and hate speech on social &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ajm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755034,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277968\/revisions\/755034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}