Guide to Pavel Durov The Tech Mogul Under French Investigation and the Global Implications of His Unregulated Empire explainer Nishita Jha
YouTube slows down in Russia Amid News of Ukrainian Offensive By forcing Russian YouTubers to Russian platforms, state agencies gain control over their content and control the trickle-down of news on the Russian internet q&a Marina Bocharova
How tech design is always political Social media companies have made many mistakes over the past 15 years. What if they’re repeated in the so-called AI revolution? newsletter Ellery Roberts Biddle
How Big Tech let down Navalny Silicon Valley was meant to be a boon to the Russian opposition, helping spread democratic ideas. Until the platforms bowed before a Kremlin crackdown Ellery Roberts Biddle
Taiwan confronts China's disinformation behemoth ahead of vote China is using disinformation and propaganda to try to influence Taiwan’s election. A scrappy coalition of civil society organizations are fighting back feature Brian Hioe
On British soil, foreign autocrats target their critics with impunity Canada and the US have criticized the Modi government in India for pursuing its critics overseas. But in the UK, where tensions between diaspora communities are rising, the government has been silent feature Peter Guest
When deepfakes go nuclear Governments already use fake data to confuse their enemies. What if they start doing this in the nuclear realm? feature Sarah Scoles
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits. feature Njeri Wangari
When AI doesn’t speak your language Better tech could do a lot of good for minority language speakers — but it could also make them easier to surveil feature Avi Ackermann
Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa's digital sweatshops Content moderators for TikTok, Meta and ChatGPT are demanding that tech companies reckon with the human toll of their enterprise. feature Erica Hellerstein
Meta cozies up to Vietnam, censorship demands and all U.S. social media companies have become indispensable partners in Vietnam's information control regime feature Dien Nguyen An Luong
Without space to detain migrants, the UK tags them The Home Office says electronically tracking asylum seekers is a humane alternative to detention. But migrants say it’s damaging their mental health dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Advertising erectile dysfunction pills? No problem. Breast health? Try again Women’s health groups say Meta is discriminating against them, while letting men’s sexual health ads flourish feature Erica Hellerstein
The Albanian town that TikTok emptied “It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media feature Isobel Cockerell
Senegal is stifling its democracy in the dark By shutting down the internet and jailing the opposition, the Senegalese government turns to the authoritarian playbook to suppress protests feature Ope Adetayo
