News 9 November 2020 Selfies and Sharia police After countrywide protests and pandemic lockdowns, Iranian Instagram has taken a decidedly political turn. The authorities are taking note.
News 9 November 2020 The Journalist vs. Facebook In the Philippines, Maria Ressa has spent years fighting authoritarianism. Now she’s turning her attention to a new enemy.
News 30 October 2020 Cash, debit, or Pix? As Brazil attempts to make instant transactions the norm, its Central Bank bets on its own state-approved solution.
News 27 October 2020 More than just a dating app When Pakistani authorities banned Tinder last month, one woman lost a social lifeline.
News 26 October 2020 Control, Alter, Delete Hong Kong activists and academics are hurrying to digitize historical records and artifacts under threat from creeping censorship.
News 24 October 2020 Nigerians don’t trust the government to respond to emergency calls. So they created apps instead. Designed to prevent sexual violence and police harassment, the apps are keeping people safe during one of their country's biggest protest movements in decades.
News 22 October 2020 Kicked off Weibo? Here’s what happens next. Thousands of Weibo accounts have been deleted as China’s government cracks down on free speech.
News 20 October 2020 As cases of Covid-19 surged, Facebook sent its content moderators in India back to work Employees told Rest of World the contractor they work for is taking advantage of an economic crisis.
News 11 October 2020 What comes first — the tweet or the drone strike? As war continues between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, both countries are using the internet to escalate the fighting — and chalk up their wins.
News 8 October 2020 The life and death of SNET, Havana’s alternative internet As Cuba sluggishly got its population online, the shadow internet developed by volunteers provided a lifeline for thousands of people.
