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Australian Government, Media Companies Challenge Tech Giants Over Sharing Ad Revenue
By Joshua Mcdonald
As tech giants rose, newsrooms suffered.
Facebook’s Apology for its Role in Sri Lanka’s Anti-Muslim Riots Should Spark Change
By Tasnim Nazeer
Facebook’s failure to remove hate speech and disinformation during the 2018 riots resulted in spurring on the deadly violence.
The Realpolitik of the Reliance Jio-Facebook Deal
By Arindrajit Basu & Amber Sinha
No one can be sure about where this deal and its associated realpolitik will take us.
India's Upcoming Digital Tax: How Will Big Tech Cope?
By Rohan Seth
India comes to term with an internationalizing digital economy.
Twitter Reveals China's Influence Campaign Targeting Hong Kong Protests
By Tami Abdollah
It’s the first instance of a U.S. social media company identifying a Chinese government-run disinformation campaign.
Easter Day Terror in Sri Lanka: Geopolitical Implications
By Ankit Panda and Prashanth Parameswaran
The Islamic State-claimed attacks that killed nearly 400 people in Sri Lanka mark a watershed in South Asia’s terror landscape.
Fake News in India and Indonesia's Elections 2019
By Jennifer Yang Hui and Pravin Prakash
In both countries, social media platforms are fertile ground for disinformation and hoaxes.
Facebook Waking Up to Genocide in Myanmar
By Eric Paulsen
How many more will die before social media giants wake up and realize they have been complicit by failing to act?
Facebook May Have Doomed the Political Career of Myanmar’s Top General
By Daniel Combs
A Facebook ban on Senior General Min Aung Hlaing will have major ramifications.
Facebook: Strengthening Timor-Leste’s Democracy
By Corinda Hollis
The recent elections are the first real opportunity to look at the public-facing use of social media by political parties.
Could Facebook Data Leaks Impact Pakistan’s Elections?
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
In Pakistan the spread of misinformation is a much graver problem than the impact it might have on polling.
The Facebook Scandal Reveals the Philippines’ Cyber Vulnerability
By Chester Cabalza
The Philippines is one of the world’s most social media-active countries. That makes it one of the most vulnerable.