They worked under the close supervision of government minders and could not travel freely. As a result, international news organizations frequently relied on phone reports from people actually on the ground. This in turn meant that the media could not independently verify accounts and so reported them as "claims" or "allegations" rather than as "facts".[24] The restrictions on and the attempts to control the media by the Gaddafi-regime continued until the government fled from Tripoli.[25][26]