Will facial recognition tech kill off mass protest as we know it? I spent some 6 months reporting this for Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

Liberals on 87 seats
Far-right on 163.

No reason to count ID and ECR separately when talking about ideology. Far-right is competing with the 'center'-right for the first place.

Over six months, Rest of World spoke to researchers, activists, and people targeted by facial recognition systems to track how the technology is being used by governments around the world to crack down on protests.

Read our new feature by @darrenloucaides restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

When Russia went to war, Russian journalist Vadim Smyslov was faced with a tough choice: Flee to a world where the truth might kill him—or seek peace in censored oblivion.

Head to WIRED.com to read the full firsthand account.

When war broke out between Israel and Hamas, Darren Loucaides revealed Telegram's central role in the spread of gruesome propaganda. It was a hugely important story told at an incredibly difficult moment wired.com/story/telegram…

Curious to see radical-right figures from the US supporting the anti-government protests in Spain, including Tucker Carlson showing up in person. Perhaps shows how much Vox have built up international links since 2018 when they couldn't get Bannon to show up here

Just finished reading a wonderful piece from 2021 on how Russia Today, Sputnik, and Telegram groups facilitated a COVID-deniers' infodemic in Germany. Written by Darren Loucaides , who later published two in-depth pieces about Telegram for WIRED opendemocracy.net/en/germany-gro…

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bookstore in china, kinda like Borges' story The Library of Babylon

“We refuse to be enemies.”

This gives me hope.

Omer Benjakob 🥺

How Telegram has been used and abused in the Israel-Hamas conflict, and why the company declines to intervene. My latest for WIRED wired.com/story/telegram…

'Over the past year, numerous dissidents across Russia have found their Telegram accounts seemingly monitored or compromised. Hundreds have had their Telegram activity wielded against them in criminal cases.' #longreads Darren Loucaides WIRED wired.com/story/the-krem…

fiction friends! keep the faith

found this fascinating

Arkady Volozh condemning war, something fellow Russian tech mogul Pavel Durov wont do. Not indic of Telegram directly colluding with Kremlin, but does point to the icky fine line his company treads for sake of business bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Fascinating read