"In Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, and Peru, emergency measures in response to COVID-19 restricted the media’s capacity to report freely and the public’s ability to access information, including critical information about public health interventions and the pandemic itself, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw program found. The report, published June 8, also found that legislation that predated COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic was used to prosecute individuals for publishing 'false news' about the pandemic."
