How organized crime recruits children in Belgium: Easy money, emojis, and threats
Arrests of minors employed as drug couriers have doubled in one year at the port of Antwerp, the main entry point for cocaine into Europe
The Mexican hackers hunting pedophiles on the internet: ‘It’s becoming much easier to perpetrate this type of violence’
The DLR collective constantly monitors online activity, where it denounces practices such as the dissemination of intimate content without consent or child exploitation
Dmitry Muratov, Russian journalist: ‘Putin has made a mockery of European politicians’
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate calls for rebuilding journalism in a world that ‘no longer believes in the truth’ and criticizes Europe for neglecting human rights in Russia in exchange for oil and gas
Teenage hitmen on the Costa del Sol: ‘He ordered murderers like someone orders a pizza’
The arrest of a 17-year-old Belgian for killing a man in Fuengirola and two other Swedish minors for attempted murder has alarmed the Spanish police
Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’
The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
‘Beating,’ ‘shit,’ ‘machete’: How the tide of hate on social media soared during the Torre Pacheco crisis due to passivity of platform owners
A monitoring system run by the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion found a 1,500% increase in racist content targeting North Africans after unprovoked assault on an elderly resident
Inside the private Telegram chat calling for immigrants in Spain to be ‘hunted down’: ‘Arab heads will roll’
The group was abruptly shut down at 8:36 p.m. on Monday for ‘inciting violence’ in the wake of an attack on an elderly man in the town of Torre Pacheco
Eccentrics and visionaries: The 15 tech bros who rule the world
From Sam Altman to Mark Zuckerberg, these are the key figures of the tech elite that rules the new global order
The new cheating: How WhatsApp and social media have us all sneaking around
Societal hyper-connection has brought betrayal into a new era, filling therapists’ offices with people who haven’t slept with anyone else, but have committed so-called ‘emotional infidelity’
No more free pass: Regulation starts to crack down on social media platforms
The arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France and the closure of X in Brazil are two of the latest signs that times are changing, with networks beginning to be held more accountable
What does the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov mean?
The platform’s chief executive has been arrested in France. Speculation about the motives for his detention makes it more difficult to understand the consequences of a surprising decision
Ukraine considers banning Telegram if app is confirmed as threat to national security
The Kyiv parliament has tabled a bill to pass an unpopular law proposal as over 70% of its citizens use the application as a source of information
Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram
The Russian entrepreneur exiled in Dubai is preparing the IPO of his controversial messaging service after rejecting purchase offers valued at $30 billion
The internet is not theirs: shifting towards a public service
Information, education and knowledge should not depend, or not exclusively, on the arbitrary decisions of a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires
Telegram suspension in Spain: ‘It’s like closing a province because a robbery occurred there’
The lawsuit is set to affect the 8.5 million people who use the application’s messaging services. But the legal, moral and technological implications of the decision are far more reaching
‘Gayrope’: This is how Russia uses disinformation against the LGBTQ+ community to attack democracies
An EU report has analyzed 31 cases of false content about sexual diversity, more than half of which are of Russian origin
Julia Ebner: ‘We’re at the beginning of the digital Middle Ages. It’s a very dangerous road’
The exploitation of a technology like the internet and successive global crises have led to a chaotic situation, says this Austrian researcher, who studies the proliferation of extremist ideas
Putin says he might try to seize nearby territory in Ukraine to prevent cross-border strikes
In some of his most detailed remarks about the war in months, the Russian leader also said he was not contemplating a new troop mobilization, as many Russians have feared, but did not rule it out
Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 11 in Zelenskiy’s hometown
Tuesday’s attack in Kryvyi Rih comes as Ukrainian forces are in the early stages of a counteroffensive, more than 15 months after Russia invaded
The world returns to an era of nuclear angst
Russia’s suspension of its arms control treaty with the US augurs a new period of military deterrence, arms races and instability
Ukraine’s Interior Minister and senior officials among 14 dead in Kyiv helicopter crash
One child was killed and 11 more injured when the aircraft hit a kindergarten in the Brovary suburb of the capital. An investigation has been launched by the security services
Moscow investigates explosions at strategic bomber airbases deep in Russian territory
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hinted that simultaneous detonations at the Ryazan and Saratov airbases could have been a special operation launched by Kyiv
FTX collapse wipes out the savings of crypto traders: ‘You feel like a fool’
Across the world, over a million people have been impacted by the bankruptcy of the main exchange platform that facilitated trading