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Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
TikTok’s efforts to provide locally sensitive moderation have resulted in it banning any content that could be seen as positive to gay people or gay rights, down to same-sex couples (...)
Twitter, texts, email … the psychological needs driving today’s vast and risky digital ‘writing experiment’
The notoriety of “postmodernism” has waxed and waned over the past 40 years. While a frequent reference point in the cultural criticism of the 1990s, the term was falling out of use during the (...)
On April 11 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadoran embassy in London. The pretext for the arrest was that Assange had skipped bail in 2012 on a British arrest warrant related to Swedish sexual assault charges from 2010. The real reason was that the U.S. government wanted (...)
When the world saw the video of beefy police dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London it was clear that the media had been alerted to film the spectacle. Ecuador had granted Assange asylum in the Embassy since 2012, to block his threatened extradition to the U.S. at the (...)
Carried out of the Ecuadorian Embassy last Thursday, Julian Assange cut a sad and desperate figure, clutching a book by Gore Vidal and calling for the UK to ‘resist this attempt by the Trump administration’. He is now being held at HMP Belmarsh. His arrest – inevitable since the political shift in (...)
The indictment, charging him with hacking one password, may seem like good news; in fact, it’s an attack on investigative journalism.
Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in (...)
If people wish to regain at least some control over their personal data, they must challenge platform capital as a whole, not just individual players.
Just 46 days after revelations that Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of Facebook profiles to predict and influence voters in the American (...)
Within two weeks, I experienced Interpol in a European country, an interrogation cell in a police station, prison, solitary confinement and the threat to be extradited to a country ruled by a despot. This is the story of the complicity of the European authorities with Turkey and of a series of (...)
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
There’s a new Tinder for journalists. Or is it Uber? It’s an app that matches journalists with pitches from public-relations firms. Like, say, an auction of tattoo art. The zingy overview pops up (...)
Egypt’s journalists syndicate to condemn Charlie Hebdo attack
A rally is set to take place on Sunday in Cairo in front of the syndicate’s headquarters.
Egypt’s journalist syndicate has called on its members to hold a rally on Sunday in front of its headquarters in downtown Cairo to condemn the (...)
Every Wednesday, the newspaper kiosks in the French streets are full of the satirical covers of Charlie Hebdo. Using cartoons as illustrations, Charlie’s sketches could be seen as crude, provocative or terribly funny. While the magazine may not be read by all French citizens, its strong (...)
My message to Charlie Hebdo’s editor in chief, Gerard Biard:
Dear Gerard
I spoke on a panel with you in November last year at the International Feminist and Secular Network in Paris.
I am writing to express my outrage at the cold-blooded murder of freethinkers at Charlie Hebdo today and to (...)
Will the media experts or Messrs BBC & CNN enlighten us as to why Facebook magic did not work in Libya. Why Qaddafi regime had to be NATO-bombed and not ‘Facebooked’?
Warning: I am writing this piece out of irritation. I think irritation is pretty legitimate inspiration under irritating (...)
The Fleet Street hacks and men from Westminster are now scrabbling to rewrite the history of the phone-hacking fiasco. The pact between press and parliament remains the same.
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, (...)
The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to (...)
We should get used to looking at the data itself, and not letting the Guardian or anyone else (including Wikileaks if it comes to that) interpose themselves. That really is one of the most amazing things about Wikileaks - not that it gives the data to the Guardian, but that it gives the data to (...)
You can take the ruling class by surprise every few decades, and the ruling class duly spends the next few decades making sure it doesn’t happen again. Then, from an unexpected quarter, it gets another punch on the nose. There have been the really big surprises, like the ones in St. Petersburg (...)
To observe that the North American media is dominated by corporate monopolies serving capitalist interests and squeezing out critical voices is to state the obvious. The state media in Canada – nationally the CBC and provincially organizations like TV-Ontario (TVO) – provide only the slightest (...)
The disaster is huge. Dozens of newspapers are bankrupt. In the United States, no less than 120 papers have shut down. And the tsunami is now striking Europe. Not even the former “newspapers of reference” are safe. El País in Spain, Le Monde in France, The Times and The Independent in the United (...)
Le Monde diplomatique has been warning about an economic storm for 20 years, and that storm is now devastating the newspaper business. Understanding its causes is no insulation from its effects; Le Monde diplomatique feels the effects of the downturn, although less than other publications and (...)
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