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Hearing voices, seeing things: How deepfakes are derailing the electoral process
Nishita Jha
7 Jun, 2024
Authoritarian Technology
Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa’s digital sweatshops
Erica Hellerstein
11 Oct, 2023
Authoritarian Technology
Meta cozies up to Vietnam, censorship demands and all
Dien Nguyen An Luong
28 Sep, 2023
Authoritarian Technology
The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
Isobel Cockerell
24 Aug, 2023
Authoritarian Technology
How TikTok influencers exploit ethnic divisions in Ethiopia
Endalkachew Chala
14 Jun, 2023
Authoritarian Technology
Can the West curb its addiction to Chinese tech?
Alex Christian
6 Apr, 2023
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U.S. lawmakers grill TikTok, but it’s all bark and no bite
Ellery Roberts Biddle
30 Mar, 2023
Authoritarian Technology
The occupational hazards of cleaning the internet
Erica Hellerstein
28 Feb, 2023
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Hong Kongers fear a great firewall, TikTokers arrested in Egypt, spyware in Central America
Ellery Roberts Biddle
2 Feb, 2023
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Twitter’s war on bots cuts off users, Indonesia criminalizes online dissent, and US bill could block TikTok
Ellery Roberts Biddle
15 Dec, 2022