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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSocial Media and the "repentant" of Silicon Valley
The documentary The Social Dilemma presents the issue of social media addiction and the rise of hate speech. The...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The balance sheet so far? Europe 0, Covid 200,000 and rising
Ten months into the epidemic and it is the virus and the right who are in control. The left can’t just wait in hope...
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Published in: Transformation: OpinionThe five real conspiracies you need to know about
While millions of people are spellbound by falsehoods, actual threats go unheeded and unchecked.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Golden Dawn is defeated: the damage to democracy is harder to repair
In an historic verdict, an Athens Court convicted Golden Dawn leaders of running a criminal organisation, bringing...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Investigation"It's up to us leaders to keep quiet if we don't want to be victims of the conflict."
Bernardino Mosquera Palacios is a social leader in the department of Chocó, on the Colombian Pacific coast, who has...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWho protects Colombians?
Massacres, murders, police shooting at civilians. Colombia, country of magical realism, seems to have become the new...
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Published in: 50.50COVID-19 hasn’t killed sexual harassment at work – it’s just moved online
The increase in working from home has given sexual predators new tools with which to threaten, intimidate and abuse...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBrazil's Bolsonaro attacks enemies real and imagined at the UN General Assembly
This was a speech delivered squarely to foreign investors and his domestic supporters. While Brazil's president has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yes, there is hope
There are increasing numbers of experiences putting collaborative methods for hope and dialogue into practice.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBBC’s documentary on the Iraq war overlooks genocide
BBC’s documentary 'Once upon a Time in Iraq' ignores the decimation of the Christian and Yazidi communities.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat is deadlier in Venezuela: its security forces or COVID-19?
The Covid-19 pandemic is not only a health problem, it also is a first-order disciplinary and security device.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPolitical trials and electoral bans: the battle for democracy in Ecuador
Amidst political trials and electoral bans, Moreno's assault on democracy is past the point of no return
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Published in: 50.50Six digital tactics conservatives use to undermine reproductive rights
From collecting your personal data to geofencing abortion clinics, anti-choice groups have gone digital. Here’s how...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho’s talking about sex and modern relationships in Arabic?
Sex and relationship conversations in Arabic media are dominated by conservative figures pushing a religious agenda.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: ‘Alternative Irish border’ Brexit lobbyist in fresh conflict of interest row
Shanker Singham, reappointed to key government trade role, paid to lobby influential Biden allies on post-Brexit...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDeepfakes: The hacked reality
The use of deepfakes is disseminating a new phantom threat: which is that, through the imitation of people's faces...
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionRupert Murdoch is not an evil genius, whatever BBC’s ‘Dynasty’ doc says
The BBC is supposed to be impartial. ‘The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty’, its recent epic documentary, fails that test.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Boris Johnson under fire over ‘personal’ meeting with Russian oligarch during COVID-19 pandemic
Prime minister met Evgeny Lebedev’s company days after telling the British public to avoid ‘non-essential contact’....
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightQAnon has gone from fringe conspiracy to full-blown cult
Attempts to ban and censor the group have only given it more power and helped usher in a new era of the far right.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Borisov’s proposed Grand National Assembly and Bulgarian democratic prospects
Democracy is under threat in Bulgaria and the EU only undermines its own authority by failing to make it clear that...