"Without facts, you can't have the truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. If you don't have any of these things, you can't have a functioning democracy."
- Maria Ressa, executive editor for Rappler, Nobel laureate
"As I watch from afar what's happening to the free press in the United States during the first weeks of Trump's second presidency - the verbal bullying, the legal harassment, the buckling by media owners in the face of threats - it all looks very familiar. The MAGA authorities have learned Orban's lessons well."
- Andras Petho, investigative journalist for The Atlantic