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The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat became digital traps for Chinese Uyghurs | Rest of World
by Darren Byler
October 14, 2021
The young Uyghur man, whom I’ll refer to as Qeyser, saw a phone for the first time in 2005, when…
Why Many Black Americans Changed Their Minds About Covid Shots | The New York Times
by Audra D.S. Burch and Amy Schoenfeld Walker
October 14, 2021
TUSKEGEE, Ala. — By the time vaccines for the coronavirus were introduced late last year, the pandemic had taken two…
China to outlaw all news outlets not funded by Communist Party | Intellasia
by Sophia Yan
October 14, 2021
Beijing published a draft law stating that privately funded organisations “shall not engage in news-gathering, editing, and broadcasting”. Officials have…
Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa | Africa Center for Strategic Studies
by Africa Center for Strategic Studies
October 7, 2021
From Asmara to Abuja, Sudan to South Africa, digital disinformation is becoming an increasingly common feature of Africa’s domestic political…
Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google | The Conversation
by William Partlett
October 5, 2021
On September 17, the first day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, Apple and Google agreed to demands from the Russian government…
Russia labels media outlet, 2 rights groups ‘foreign agents’ | AP News
by Daria Litvinova
September 30, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Wednesday designated a popular independent media outlet and two rights groups “foreign agents,” a…
Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond | The Cyber Policy Institute
by Daniel Arnaudo, Samantha Bradshaw, Hui Hui Ooi, Kaleigh Schwalbe, Vera Zakem, Amanda Zink
September 24, 2021
Over the past few years, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Stanford Internet Observatory…
The role of (social) media in political polarization: a systematic review | Taylor & Francis Online
by Emily Kubin and Christian von Sikorski
September 23, 2021
Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the spread of misinformation on social…
Afghanistan Has Its Own Fake News Problem | Deadline
by Hollie McKay
September 23, 2021
A month into the Taliban takeover of Kabul, and the misinformation and disinformation continues to soar into dizzying territory –…