Tech

Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still where the far right recruits, and where its opponents are learning to fight back

Israel has destroyed over 20,000 South Lebanese homes and set up military forts. Hezbollah's insurgent media transformed destruction into a counter-archive, making occupation visible and reframing resistance

Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt

As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural inequality—asks: who profits, and at whose expense?

From Musk's Star Trek pitch to Pentagon generals to Palantir's Tolkien branding and terrifying manifesto, Silicon Valley has turned science fiction's radical imagination into a tool for concentrating power

Applicant Tracking Systems were built to solve a real problem - too many résumés, too little time. But somewhere between efficiency and automation, something broke - ATS became a case of AI failure hiding in plain sight

From OpenAI to Google, insiders who warn about unsafe AI face retaliation, not protection, revealing a dangerous gap between technological power and public accountability

In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic censorship and bias

Day by day, the United States is becoming more overt in using its economic and technological influence against its adversaries, which makes the question of independence from dominant US technology companies increasingly urgent

A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.

On retaliation, weak protections, and why defending tech workers’ rights is essential to confronting surveillance, militarisation, and corporate complicity in global human rights violations.

Which effects will the current exposure to violence have on future generations? 

Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic bias and digital colonialism.

From AI checkpoints to facial recognition, Palestine is a testing ground for surveillance technologies later exported worldwide.

Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.

Milei’s ‘digital revolution’ turns Argentina into a playground for Big Tech and Big Mining at the expense of its people and environment.

As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting Unit 8200 veterans and embedding occupation tech into Google Cloud.

AI-driven weapons born from venture capital logics treat war as a beta test and failure as progress.

War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.

From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.

Three situated experiences of the development of AI technologies, challenging the language used to describe them, their inner functioning and their application in both civilian and wartime contexts.

Artists allapopp and Dinara Rasuleva discuss decolonizing technology and imagining futures rooted in migrant cultures.

Asylum seekers in Bavaria face more than just borders—they navigate a system where attempts to expose wrongdoing are punished by the very system that should be protecting them.

Late August 2024, the supreme court in Brazil issued a ban for X (formerly Twitter). The following clash with its owner, Elon Musk, reveals the intricacies of the relationship between global tech companies and colonial legacies.

What does decolonizing AI really mean? What does it entail, and how can we implement it as a practice in real-world terms?

Millions of influencers are facing working conditions marked by uncertainty, irregular pay, fluctuating follower counts, and compromised mental health.

Recent unmasking of influence operations revealed, once again, the extent of the efforts by the Israeli state in trying to win the hearts and minds of key audiences.

What are the ethical implications when artificial intelligence plays a role in documenting human experiences?

The development and training of AI systems depend on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated or displaced from the Global majority, and are generally kept in the dark on how the data they produce will be used.