Analysis

  • Know Your Risks Before They Know You

    Electronic Frontier Foundation

    eff.org

    Digital security is as much of a mindset as it is a toolkit, and there are concepts to consider regardless of whether you're first getting started or you're a seasoned veteran. Before you start seeking out solutions, take a minute to step back and consider the whole picture of what you're trying to accomplish.

    Published On: 07/24/2024

  • The Imagination Battle at the Heart of Liberation

    Krista Tippett

    On Being

    "It’s like, how do we get in a right relationship with change that allows us to harness and shape things, towards community, towards liberation, towards justice?"

    Published On: 07/03/2024

  • How Autocrats Learned to Export Censorship

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of freedom, then those concepts have to be poisoned.

    Published On: 05/06/2024

  • How Big Tech Algorithms Are Fueling Modern Fascism

    Morgan Meaker

    Wired

    In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

    Published On: 04/09/2024

  • How AI Is Becoming Iran’s Tool to Police Women

    Rachel George

    Council on Foreign Relations

    Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

    Published On: 12/07/2023

  • Journalists Killed Covering Gaza: The Full RSF Record

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Boarders

    Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

    Published On: 11/22/2023

  • Face Recognition Threatens Privacy and Free Expression

    BERYL LIPTON AND MATTHEW GUARIGLIA

    EFF

    Face recognition technology, particularly when used by law enforcement and government, puts into jeopardy many of our important rights.

    Published On: 10/03/2023

  • How Big Tech Billionaires Are Dismantling Democracy

    Jonathan Taplin

    Vanity Fair

    In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.

    Published On: 08/22/2023

  • Russia Bans Meduza, Criminalizing Readers and Sources

    JIM HEINTZ AND DASHA LITVINOVA

    AP News

    Meduza, an independent news website that has been critical of Russia’s military action in Ukraine was declared “undesirable” by the government Thursday, effectively outlawing its operation within the country as part of the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on dissent.

    Published On: 01/26/2023

  • RSF Fights Back Against Kremlin’s Exile Media Crackdown

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the mirror site technology of its Collateral Freedom operation to unblock access to Meduza, the most popular Russian independent news website.

    Published On: 11/03/2022

  • Russian Journalists in Exile Fight to Keep Truth Alive

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    “A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

    Published On: 05/09/2022

  • Women Journalists Face Threats No Bulletproof Vest Can Stop

    Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida

    Article 19

    What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

    Published On: 05/03/2022

  • How Fringe White Power Ideas Infiltrate the Mainstream

    Gene Demby

    NPR

    This is an opportunistic movement — which means that even though Trump seems to be able to incite these people, it does not mean he has the power to call them off.

    Published On: 01/15/2021

  • 3.5% Can Transform a Nation—Here’s the Proof

    Michelle Nicholasen

    The Harvard Gazette

    Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns

    Published On: 02/04/2019

  • How Big Data Turned Your Biases Into Weapons

    Steve Paulson

    Nautilus

    If you want to destroy the ability to have a meaningful public conversation, you discover the fears and hatreds of people and magnify them.

    Published On: 12/26/2018

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