Help OCCRP SLAPP Back

Help OCCRP SLAPP Back

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"When you get SLAPPed, you have to fight back. You have to go all in." – Paul Radu, OCCRP Co-Founder Journalists and media outlets in our global network are currently battling a record 41 SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation. These are suits filed specifically to threaten, intimidate, and financially burden journalists. Experience shows that journalists usually win these cases. But fighting them is debilitating. It takes years, requires expensive attorneys, eats away time, and takes our focus away from reporting in the public interest. On the other hand, it’s cheap and easy for wealthy, SLAPP-happy criminals, corrupt officials, and shady businessmen to hire lawyers who specialize in trying to silence journalists. So we’ve started “OCCRP SLAPPs Back,” an in-house legal defense fund to battle lawsuits brought against journalists and media outlets in our network.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting ProjectThe Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is both an investigative journalism platform and an independent media ecosystem that helps the public hold power to account. Our global network covers six continents and consists of 45 editors, 55 media centers, and 3 regional partners, as well as 60 publishing partners including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the Guardian. We publish 120+ stories a year, providing governments and the civil society with the information they need to change policy and deliver justice. In 2020, we have been recognized for their work with a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and last year, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken backed our Global Anti-Corruption Consortium with Transparency International, issuing a call to the rest of the world to join it during the Summit for Democracy. We are now preparing a new product called Reporters Shield, which is designed to protect independent media worldwide from abusive and vexatious lawsuits, also known as SLAPPs.

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