Mahathir tersenarai dalam senarai Reporters Without Borders sebagai salah seorang drpd 39 "Predators of the Press" pada tahun 2001.
Antara media arus perdana yang pernah di 'ban' oleh Mahathir - The Star, Sin Chew and Watan.
Majalah yang ditutup Detik dan Wasilah juga tabloid mingguan Eksklusif dan sumbat editor ke penjara dibawah ISA dan Sedition Act.
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Winner: World's Top Ten Enemies of the Press 2001
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran
Jiang Zemin of China
Charles Taylor of Liberia
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe,
Vladimir Putin of Russia,
Colombian paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma
President Fidel Castro of Cuba
President Zine Al-Abdine Ben Ali of Tunisia
Mahathir Mohamad (listed for three years straight).
Winner: World's Top Ten Enemies of the Press 2000
Sierra Leone's Foday Sankoh,
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic
Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev
Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos
Alberto K. Fujimori of Peru,
Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, (2nd year running)
President Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali of Tunisia
President Jiang Zemin of China
President Fidel Castro of Cuba
Winner: World's Top Ten Enemies of the Press 1999
President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia,
President Jiang Zemin of China,
President Fidel Castro of Cuba.
President Alberto K. Fujimori of Peru,
President Laurent-Désiré Kabila of Congo,
President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia
President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt
President Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine
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https://cpj.org/reports/2001/05/enemies-01.php
https://cpj.org/reports/2000/05/enemies-00.php
https://cpj.org/enemies/enemies_99.html