CLIENT: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS YEAR: 2023
On January 1st, 2022, a new Espionage Act came to effect in Sweden, criminalizing whistleblowers, leading to censorship and threatening free speech as we know it. To draw attention to this alarming development, Reporters Without Borders Sweden launched a self-censoring ad. The ad, featured in the December 31st edition of Swedens largest newspaper, was partially printed with a specially designed CO2-sensitive ink. After leaving the printing press, the ink gradually disappeared, symbolizing how objective journalism was literally fading away…