GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression on Monday accused the White House of mounting an “onslaught” against the media and referred to a negative “Trump effect” on global press freedom.
“Clearly the signature issue over the past four years now has been the way in which this particular president addresses the media: the way he denigrates the media, denigrates freedom of expression,” David Kaye told journalists in Geneva.
Asked about the impact of that on press freedom around the world, he said: “There clearly is a Trump effect, a very negative one.”
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
