Tag: politics

• Joint report by the CAPS/IRSEM – Information Manipulation: A Challenge for Our Democracies (4 September 2018)

  January 2, 2021

  Information manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but it has taken on an entirely new dimension because of the unprecedented capacity of the internet and social networks to diffuse information… more ›

• Making Sense of the Facebook Menace

  January 2, 2021

  Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on… more ›

• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #48: Video of CJNG Engagement of Autodefensa Mounted Infantry in IAFV in La Bocanda, Michoacán

  December 31, 2020

  Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Director of Research and Analysis, C/O Futures, LLC, and an Instructor at the Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of… more ›

• Benevolent force

  December 29, 2020

  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 ›

• “Brazil is Synonymous with Inequality”: Aerial Images Reveal Wealth Gap in Brazilian Cities

  December 29, 2020

  Most people are familiar with the concept of social and economic inequality, but although it affects a large part of the world’s population, it is still somewhat abstract for many… more ›

• Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub

  December 22, 2020

  Anyone who wants to know that Pornhub has engaged in abusive and exploitative behavior toward women need only listen to the women whose videos were posted to the free porn… more ›

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›

• The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states

  December 21, 2020

  “Smart city” is one of those science fiction phrases seemingly designed to make you uneasy, like “neuromarketing” or “pre-crime”. It’s impossible to be alive in this decade and not find… more ›

• A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

  December 21, 2020

  The buzz of a drone at night was the first sign of trouble. Next came the roar of a larger, low-flying aircraft, which alerted residents of the Afghan village of… more ›

• Wife of ‘McMafia’ banker with £16m Harrods spending habit named

  December 21, 2020

  The woman at the centre of the UK’s first McMafia-style “dirty money” investigation who has a £1.6m-a-year Harrods spending habit has been unmasked as Zamira Hajiyeva, the wife of an… more ›