News 13 January 2021 Cómo desinformación sobre vacunas se propaga más por Facebook en español La empresa solamente eliminó una red que propagaba teorías de conspiración después de ser contactada por Rest of World.
News 9 January 2021 The gig economy comes for childhood education Startups in India want to apply Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth playbook to children’s education. But is anyone learning anything?
News 8 January 2021 Covid tourists flocking to Mexico stir online outrage — except in Mexico While American social media is roiling with images of holiday makers, the country’s online outrage is too busy hating on itself.
News 7 January 2021 How vaccine misinformation spreads in Spanish on Facebook The company removed a network of pages spreading harmful conspiracy theories only after Rest of World reached out.
News 5 January 2021 Surveillance in the name of Covid-19 Singapore successfully used technology to track and trace Covid-19 cases, but privacy advocates worry about the long-term consequence of surveillance.
Ideas 23 November 2020 Returning to China’s walled garden To combat the spread of Covid-19, authorities are increasingly narrowing the divide between a person’s offline and online selves.
Longreads 17 November 2020 The cost of convenience South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
Feature 14 September 2020 Death decreed over Zoom Virtual courts were meant to be the solution to a congested system in Nigeria. Then one was used to sentence a man to death.
News 10 September 2020 Tracking in the name of Covid-19 The same data that tells advertisers you've been shopping for a couch is being used in Colombia to track the coronavirus.
News 29 July 2020 Notes from China’s unemployed The coronavirus has heightened unemployment in China. Here's where those without jobs go to cope.