Defend Your Right to Watch African Stream

Rallying 8 billion people to defend the UN-recognized human rights to access information and the truth, and the right to free expression, amidst the U.S. censorship campaign against African Stream

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Defending Freedom to Access Information for 8 Billion People

Tech giants YouTube, Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads), TikTok and Google suspended or banned Pan-African, anti-imperialist digital media outlet African Stream’s accounts in September following U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s September 13 announcement that African Stream is “secretly funded” by Russian-state TV network RT. For the past two years, African Stream has generated hundreds of millions of views covering Africa, the African diaspora, Palestine and other issues for its 2.5-million subscribers.

The Coalition to Defend African Stream asserts the U.S. State Department and the aforementioned tech companies have violated 8 billion people’s human right to access information, the right to the truth and the right to freedom of expression, as laid out by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

“Freedom of information is an integral part of the fundamental right of freedom of expression, as recognized by resolution 59 of the UN General Assembly adopted in 1946, as well as by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which states that the fundamental right of freedom of expression encompasses the freedom to ‘to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’”

–United Nations

The Coalition to Defend African Stream makes four demands of the U.S. State Department and the aforementioned tech giants:

The U.S. State Department

must retract its September 13 statement that African Stream is ‘secretly run’ by Russian-state TV network RT and that it showcases ‘Kremlin propagandists’

Stanford University

must retract its unscientific ‘analysis’ published on September 17

All Mainstream and Small Media Outlets

must retract published materials that misinform the public about African Stream

YouTube, Meta, TikTok and Google

must reinstate African Stream’s accounts

Defend African Stream!

By signing the petition, you join the Coalition to Defend African Stream against online censorship.