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China’s Long-Term Investments in AI Growth: Bringing the Public and Private Sectors Together | Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
July 15, 2021
The Chinese leadership has put artificial intelligence front and center in China's industrial development. As part of this strategy, they…
Knight Smart Cities Lab 2021 | Knight Foundation
July 7, 2021
As communities continue to rebuild and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how can they harness the lessons they’ve learned in…
Twelfth of July: How to responsibly follow Northern Ireland’s summer of protest on social media | The Conversation
by Paul Reilly
July 6, 2021
Earlier this year, disorder in Northern Ireland reached a scale not seen in years, with a wave of protests and violent…
Threat of delta variant looms large in unvaccinated South | NBC
by Denise Chow and Erika Edwards
June 29, 2021
Dr. Rachael Lee is still haunted by memories of the last surge. She recalled emotional weeks in January when cases…
Punitive laws are failing to curb misinformation in Africa. Time for a rethink. | The Conversation
by Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Alan Finlay, and Anya Schiffrin
June 25, 2021
Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it was intended to mislead, has long been recognised…
Deepfake maps could really mess with your sense of the world | Ars Technica
by Will Knight
June 1, 2021
Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of the…
South Korea’s elderly alt-right unite on YouTube | Rest of World
by Grace Moon
May 28, 2021
On the afternoon of the March 1 Independence Day, 85-year-old Jeong Nam-yeon marched for over an hour in the piercing…
Targeting Turkish–Georgian Relations: Russian Disinformation is Taking a Local Turn | RUSI
by Kakhaber Kemoklidze and Natia Seskuria
May 21, 2021
Having scored only limited success in their anti-Western disinformation campaign in Georgia, Russian propaganda outlets are now attempting to fuel…
Inside the rise of ‘Free Speech’ anti-Facebook platforms across Central Europe | Rest of World
by Emily Schultheis
May 18, 2021
In late March, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party and the country’s deputy prime minister, spoke…