In Beirut, taxi app Bolt spreads despair in an already devastated economy From Durban to London, Bolt drivers have gone on strike to demand better conditions. But in Lebanon, the app operates with impunity, thriving amid chaos feature Emma Scolding
A mobile app is costing India’s poorest workers their wages The government has made it mandatory to register laborers on a welfare program via smartphone but weak networks and no accountability is causing frustration and anger feature Arbab Ali
Jailed for Jokes Why are Indian police making arrests based on the bruised feelings of thin-skinned politicians and obscure complaints about “hurt sentiments”? feature Arbab Ali and Sabah Gurmat
The hidden marketing machine behind Brazil’s food delivery giant How iFood used social media to undermine workers’ labor organizing efforts feature Clarissa Levy and Bárbara D'Osualdo
Online harassment is on the rise — and Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover isn’t helping How are women and LGBTQ people confronting online abuse? Tips from the field explainer Mariam Kiparoidze
Escape from Shanghai: my harrowing flight from the world's strictest lockdown Hidden in the back of a car under a pile of boxes, how one man escaped Shanghai's Covid surveillance system after three weeks of hunger and fear first person Anonymous and Isobel Cockerell
Fleeing Russian bombs while battling Facebook. A Meta problem Ukrainian journalists did not need Facebook says it’s fighting disinformation and blocking Russian propaganda. But independent newsrooms in eastern Ukraine say they’re being restricted under the same rules. feature Natalia Antelava
Outside the US, Elon Musk’s vision of a rules-free Twitter is expected to unlock violence and civil strife Musk’s free speech absolutism could stoke conflict in countries like India and Ethiopia feature Ellery Roberts Biddle
Watch your back — and your coffee mug. Innocent-seeming objects are tracking us everywhere From Bluetooth headphones to smart coffee mugs to GPS trackers inside fake pill bottles, here are some unexpected ways we’re being monitored roundup Mariam Kiparoidze
How Silicon Valley is helping Putin and other tyrants win the information war As state-backed accounts fight for our attention, Facebook pages of independent media outlets are disappearing feature Natalia Antelava
Belarusians are using Telegram – and their own printers – to deliver the news Volunteers are working to spread real news, under a government dedicated to keeping it hidden feature Katie Marie Davies
Russians face grim options on social media Censorship on VKontakte leaves Russians with few ways of accessing information counter to the Kremlin’s narratives feature Masho Lomashvili and Caitlin Thompson
Biolabs, QAnon, and Putin: visualizing digital authoritarianism's next move Marc Owen Jones navigates the murky waters of deceptive influence campaigns q&a Isobel Cockerell
Immersive simulation attempts to pierce apathy over the Uyghur genocide Istanbul’s Uyghur Genocide Museum guides visitors through a series of simulation rooms based on camp survivor testimony photo essay Emin Ozmen / Magnum Photos and Katia Patin
