Russians make mass cash withdrawals amid internet shutdowns and transfer controls
Problems with online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts over the past three months
Problems with online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts over the past three months

In these far-right extremist movements, children as young as 14 talk about a ‘pure people,’ downplay the Holocaust, and express hatred of immigrants

Islamic Republic officials blocked internet access in late February, forcing citizens to improvise solutions to avoid poverty and isolation

Official and independent polls agree on the decline of the Russian leader’s approval ratings as economic problems worsened from 2025 onwards

The Kremlin and the Russian public are locked in a cat‑and‑mouse game over the government’s attempts to control the global web. Children and older adults alike now know how to use the tools needed to get around the censorship

Celebrities with millions of followers criticize the authorities for not informing the president about the country’s problems, although they avoid attacking him directly

Andrei Soldatov and his colleague Irina Borogan say that the Kremlin’s intelligence services believe they are in an eternal war against the West

An investigation by the NGO Derechos Digitales identified 27 active online platforms in Brazil, Peru, and Argentina where personal information, credit histories, addresses, and other sensitive data are sold. This material is used in particular to incite gender-based violence

The instant messaging service’s lax content moderation policy has turned it into a hotbed of criminal activity

Country’s leading political prisoner defense group warns of its critical situation due to lack of funds

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 DLR collective constantly monitors online activity, where it denounces practices such as the dissemination of intimate content without consent or child exploitation

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

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

The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts

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

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

From Sam Altman to Mark Zuckerberg, these are the key figures of the tech elite that rules the new global order

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’

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

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

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

The Russian entrepreneur exiled in Dubai is preparing the IPO of his controversial messaging service after rejecting purchase offers valued at $30 billion

Information, education and knowledge should not depend, or not exclusively, on the arbitrary decisions of a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires

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

An EU report has analyzed 31 cases of false content about sexual diversity, more than half of which are of Russian origin
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