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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Online Safety Bill endangers us by ignoring digital threats to democracyIn Russia, Putin's propaganda reminds us of the risk of online manipulation. Why are our MPs failing to address it?
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Published in: digitaLiberties: AnalysisA constellation is born: Approaching the Web3 platform economyAs many envision a world in which both information and value flow freely, new pathways for sustainable income...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIsrael’s digital apartheid is silencing PalestiniansWe urgently need international standards that would protect people from repressive governments and profit-driven...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesYour data makes the web personalOnline personalisation is where you see specific content based on your personal data. How bad can it be?
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Published in: digitaLibertiesyourData – helping you see data in actionyourData is openDemocracy’s project to bring more transparency to the web.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFacebook and policing the war of narrativesAbdul Baset al-Sarout's death brings the Syrian war into cyberspace.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOnce we searched Google, now Google searches usMark Kernan reviews Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy a focus on "fake news" and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutionsMP's new 'fake news' report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCommons report on “fake news” says failing electoral laws are putting UK democracy at riskReport from MPs builds on openDemocracy’s work exposing unaccountable ‘dark money’ and influence on our elections
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?More World: can communal practices save the planet?Climate change, migration and digitalization are three of the greatest challenges in the current phase of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Gilets Jaunes and the two faces of FacebookFacebook design allows popular ideas to be shared and expanded on – the dream of everyone having an equal political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘Gilets jaunes’: the meaning of the confrontationAs the ‘gilets jaunes’ movement continues after President Macron’s speech, the French philosopher examines its...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Deserving’ settlement in post-Brexit Britain: challenges posed by the settled status schemeIt's striking that the difference between the proof of continuous residence under the settlement scheme and the EU...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Estonia’s populist and radical right: how radical are they?Many political observers have noticed how the most recent anti-immigration protests relating to the debate on the UN...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The yellow vests, or the discrediting of representative democracyEven though the most scathing criticism is directed at the president of the republic, it is the entire political...
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Published in: HomeWhy Peter Gabriel questioned his faith in the internetSinger, songwriter and humanitarian activist Peter Gabriel on becoming skeptical of an unregulated internet.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Grassroots action prominent in the platform economyIt is newer, more grassroots forms of labour organisation than the established trade unions that have been the most...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit Citizens Assembly: rising to the United Kingdom's crisis in democracyOn Brexit, as with every other big issue, the future will be negotiated not imposed.
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Published in: HomeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70Heed Monday’s anniversary, for talk of rights is increasingly becoming hazardous to health in vast parts of the globe
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Published in: 50.50Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at lastCenturies of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a...
