‘Je suis Jamal Khashoggi’

A man mourns by a makeshifts memorial made of candles and posters picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul on October 25, 2018. -AFP

LAST WEEK, I spent three days each in Brussels and Prague. I was attending a global editor’s roundtable on fake news organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation.

Fake news legislation was the focus of the meeting, and indeed that was originally going to be the thrust of this column.