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AI's promise and pitfalls will affect key domains

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INT

AI promises to drive economic efficiencies across sectors, improve the delivery of critical services such as healthcare, democratise access to knowledge and skills, and tighten…

Internet crackdown is blow for activism in Middle East

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MIDDLE EAST

Prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings many states in the region lacked legal frameworks to regulate or control digital platforms and online media, but this is no longer the case. In…

Russia will deny cyberattacks despite more US evidence

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RUSSIA

The US indictment accuses the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, its backers and staff of interfering in the election by running false social media accounts. This…

Online disinformation is greater risk for older users

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The growing numbers of senior citizens in the United States, their rapidly increasing adoption of social media and their high levels of voter turnout make their vulnerability to…

Calls to audit social media algorithms will rise

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The problem of misinformation, polarisation and harmful content on social media has in recent years exposed the ineffectiveness of self-regulation by platform operators. Yet…

China will keep treating private firms with disfavour

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CHINA

The NPC Standing Committee that same week expanded the State Secrets Law. Information clampdowns denting business confidence undermine efforts to boost the private sector and…

Anti-disinformation approaches will proliferate

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INT

However, these efforts are neither universally applied nor commonly accepted. The proliferation of frameworks to combat disinformation demonstrates shared motivations among…

US government bans TikTok use on federal devices

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UNITED STATES

By last month, 14 states had already banned TikTok from government-issued devices, with another five in the process of doing so, citing security concerns recently endorsed by the…

Global spyware industry will expand despite scrutiny

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INTERNATIONAL

Public and political scrutiny of the surveillance-for-hire industry has intensified ever since the Pegasus scandal broke last year. This has been aided by efforts by several large…

Post-Mueller-report fights shift to US Congress

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UNITED STATES

The report summarises the 2017-19 investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, but that the Trump…