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Social media fragmentation raises disinformation risks

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INT

One driving factor of this risk is that in 2024 over 4 billion people -- around half the world's population -- will be able to vote in elections. These polls will take place at a…

Fact-checking on social media will not curb falsehoods

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INTERNATIONAL

Falsehoods on social media

Conspiracy theories cost societies dear

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INTERNATIONAL

The aim of the pilot programme will be to accelerate the identification of misinformation. Deliberate disinformation campaigns have already affected elections and politics, but…

Chad aims to co-opt rebels to reduce their threat

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CHAD

The government’s attention is now shifting to rebels. The authorities face threats from multiple sides -- rebel groups, Boko Haram, the turmoil in the Central African Republic and…

Chad’s peace deal will be only partially successful

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CHAD

However, prominent rebel groups -- including the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT), responsible for the death of President Idriss Deby in April 2021 -- refused to…

Leader's death points to a turbulent period for Chad

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CHAD

Following Deby’s death, the military dissolved the government and parliament and put in place a transition military council (CMT) headed by Deby’s 37-year-old son, Mahamat ‘Kaka’…

UK Premier May will moderate pro-Brexit policy

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UNITED KINGDOM

She has exploited her unexpectedly strong mandate among the parliamentary party and the fact that she has succeeded David Cameron several weeks earlier than anticipated to make…

Chad’s president aims to ‘divide and rule’

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CHAD

Key rebel groups have welcome Deby’s appeal. However, the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT), which killed President Idriss Deby in April, has set conditions for…

I-Soon leak exposes scope of China's cyber activity

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CHINA

This leak included corporate documents and internal communications, and detailed a suite of spyware applications developed by Shanghai-based cybersecurity company I-Soon, a…

Polls will heat up Polish claim for German reparations

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POLAND

The demand might seem a populist substitution by the United Right (ZP) coalition government, because Warsaw’s rule-of-law argument with the EU denies Poland COVID-19 recovery and…