Taiwan confronts China's disinformation behemoth ahead of vote China is using disinformation and propaganda to try to influence Taiwan’s election. A scrappy coalition of civil society organizations are fighting back feature Brian Hioe
On British soil, foreign autocrats target their critics with impunity Canada and the US have criticized the Modi government in India for pursuing its critics overseas. But in the UK, where tensions between diaspora communities are rising, the government has been silent feature Peter Guest
When deepfakes go nuclear Governments already use fake data to confuse their enemies. What if they start doing this in the nuclear realm? feature Sarah Scoles
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits. feature Njeri Wangari
When AI doesn’t speak your language Better tech could do a lot of good for minority language speakers — but it could also make them easier to surveil feature Avi Ackermann
Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa's digital sweatshops Content moderators for TikTok, Meta and ChatGPT are demanding that tech companies reckon with the human toll of their enterprise. feature Erica Hellerstein
Meta cozies up to Vietnam, censorship demands and all U.S. social media companies have become indispensable partners in Vietnam's information control regime feature Dien Nguyen An Luong
Without space to detain migrants, the UK tags them The Home Office says electronically tracking asylum seekers is a humane alternative to detention. But migrants say it’s damaging their mental health dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Advertising erectile dysfunction pills? No problem. Breast health? Try again Women’s health groups say Meta is discriminating against them, while letting men’s sexual health ads flourish feature Erica Hellerstein
The Albanian town that TikTok emptied “It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media feature Isobel Cockerell
Senegal is stifling its democracy in the dark By shutting down the internet and jailing the opposition, the Senegalese government turns to the authoritarian playbook to suppress protests feature Ope Adetayo
Migrants take the US to court over its glitchy asylum app The Biden administration’s glitchy new app is failing asylum seekers. Now, migrant’s rights groups are fighting back feature Erica Hellerstein
Inside New Mexico’s struggle to protect kids from abuse A safety scoring tool was supposed to improve child welfare. But former caseworkers say it’s not helping feature Caitlin Thompson
When Meta suspends influential political accounts, who loses? Meta must decide whether to suspend Hun Sen’s Facebook page and the archive of recent Cambodian political history it contains feature Fiona Kelliher
Researchers say their AI can detect sexuality. Critics say it’s dangerous Swiss psychiatrists say their AI deep learning model can tell if your brain is gay or straight. AI experts say that’s impossible feature Isobel Cockerell
