Tag: authoritarianism
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The Russian language has introduced a few words that in recent years have been widely used and misused in English: disinformation, kompromat, Novichok. But the one that blows my mind… more ›
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Left to its own devices, thermodynamics will revert us and everything we built back to the state of nature. Left to our own, we humans seem increasingly oblivious and willing… more ›
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In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›
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Winter is coming: a cold, northern, long and suspenseful season. Six months from now the world will be more pessimistic, tired of the overwhelming sentiment of defeat against the unreasonable forces… more ›
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From the struggle against the coronavirus, to the relationship with France and with the neighbours, and the state of human rights in Rwanda, an interview with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.… more ›
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China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›
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The rapidly increasing accessibility of the technology raises new concerns about its abuse. Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. Within… more ›
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Skip to main content By 8 April 2020 It started with a warning. It turned into a pandemic that has transformed life as we know it A turbulent decade had… more ›
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters by in San Francisco As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling… more ›
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Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›