U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights is a testament to the wasteland where human rights advocacy now resides

The U.S. State Department recently released its annual report on human rights.

Peter Bergen: The report could be Exhibit A in explaining Washington's slipping reputation among countries that have been our traditional allies.

He says the report seems dedicated to listing as many inequities as possible, not highlighting the most significant, as if its goal was volume, not substance.

Eliot Pattison, author of nineteen novels, earned the Art of Freedom award from Tibet House for his work in spotlighting human rights issues in China.

Pattison: If we hear about human rights, it is according to the loudest scripts on social media. But those who craft those scripts don’t have values, they have algorithms.