Authoritarian Tech

How Twitter is doing the government’s bidding in India

23 Mar

Digital data is becoming key evidence in abortion lawsuits

16 Mar

Smoking gun evidence of state surveillance tech in the U.S. and Mexico

9 Mar

The digital dimensions of Russia’s war, one year on

2 Mar

Meta’s paid verification plan will push more users to the margins

23 Feb

With elections looming, Modi and Erdogan are going after fake news

16 Feb

Twitter falters in Turkey, Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, and Tibetans stare down a new cyberlaw

9 Feb

Hong Kongers fear a great firewall, TikTokers arrested in Egypt, spyware in Central America

2 Feb

‘Small boat’ photos could be censored in the UK, Google’s abortion data problem, the low wage workers  behind AI

26 Jan

AI advances shock and awe regulators, Saudi Arabia jails Wikipedia editors, Myanmar’s spyware deal

19 Jan

Bolsonaristas riot, Meta blocks ‘dangerous’ dead people, sedition laws silence Hong Kongers

12 Jan

Facebook’s fatal failures in Ethiopia, terrorism on YouTube and the not-so-new problem of toxic Twitter

22 Dec, 2022

Twitter’s war on bots cuts off users, Indonesia criminalizes online dissent, and US bill could block TikTok

15 Dec, 2022

Russian tech giant Yandex erases damaged Ukrainian buildings from maps; Iranian regime thrives on Telegram

8 Dec, 2022

Chinese protesters back Iranian women, Ethiopia hosts internet meet while keeping the internet off, and NSO’s legal woes

1 Dec, 2022