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A man looks at the Qoloji displacement camp, the largest in Ethiopia. EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr

21 Mar 2023 3 minute read

Africa is beginning to hold social media companies to account

A court case shows the continent’s demand for social media companies to be accountable for their impact offline, columnist...

What if…social media were built for our needs, not profit?

29 Mar 2023 3 minute read

What if…social media were not for profit?

Nick Dowson imagines a different world of online communities that puts our needs first.

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ

13 Feb 2023 5 minute read

On your watch

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in...

23 Aug 2021 6 minute read

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What can the digital age offer political life?

Indra Adnan argues that ‘cosmolocalism’ could be the key to a stronger, more hopeful democracy.

Yewande Oyetade, a medical laboratory technician in Lagos, Nigeria, collects samples for Covid-19 testing at the Agege Primary Health Centre. ANDREW ESIEBO/PANOS

1 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Scientific internationalism

It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues ...

9 May 2021 6 minute read

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Dreams of magic bullets

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

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12 Apr 2021 6 minute read

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The space invaders

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about our need for privacy in a digital age.

Conspiracy theorist graffiti alleging terrorism behind the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013, pictured in Montreal. Credit: Cold, Indrid/Flickr

11 Apr 2021 2 minute read

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How to talk with conspiracy theorists

Vanessa Baird offers some nifty tips in tackling a growing problem.

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5 Apr 2021 6 minute read

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How we are gulled

Propaganda and media expert Peter Pomerantsev on tackling disinformation and the power of the digital...

7 Oct 2019 3 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

Should I delete my Facebook account?

Agony Uncle weighs in on whether to finally do away with social media.

6 May 2019 3 minute read

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What if...we regulated digital technology for the public good?

Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone on how to get the job done.

28 Feb 2019 5 minute read

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Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy

Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify...

Exploitation by tech firms and social media firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

24 Dec 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

What if social media firms paid us?

Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

Glyphosate and Roundup: a Monsanto protestor. Photo: Donna Cleveland, CC-BY-2.0

22 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Time for Roundup to wind up?

After decades muddying the science, Monsanto may at last account for its weedkiller’s effects, writes Claire...

9 Aug 2018 4 minute read

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What should Twitter censor?

Forget shadow banning, we need to talk about holding private censors accountable, argues Jillian York.

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

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