Code for Africa exposes the connections between the four major brands that recruit young people through deception using Western servers and platforms
Far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announces construction and cites the US as an example. ‘We are making history’
Offenders continue to use the former Twitter to peddle child pornography despite Elon Musk’s promise that he would eradicate this scourge when he bought the social media platform
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