Freedom of the press is falling around the world, warns a new report from Freedom House — and other freedoms are falling along with it.

The nonprofit’s annual look at “Freedom and the Media” sees a devastating decade-long trend, “with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike.”

The authors worry most about “Europe, previously a bastion of well-established freedoms,” as well as “Eurasia and the Middle East, where many of the world’s worst dictatorships are concentrated.”

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That is, nations like Hungary feature increasing de facto government control of the press, building “a parallel reality where the government messages and disinformation reinforce each other.”

But the drop in press freedom along with all freedom is better shown by Turkey and Russia, where autocrats Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, respectively, “continue to tighten the screws on dissenting voices, as any breach in their media dominance threatens to expose official wrongdoing or debunk official narratives.”

Another huge threat comes from China, which is moving from its total control at home to aiming to suppress criticism in other nations’ media and even to control of overseas content. Worse, Beijing’s economic and technical progress has boosted “its ability to interfere aggressively in other countries, should it choose to do so.”

US media tend to obsess about President Trump’s verbal sparring with the press, and his talk of changing libel law. But any survey of the networks or the major papers shows that Trump’s critics have all the freedom they need. The real worry should be about what’s happening on the rest of the planet.