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The signal we cannot ignore: What the LONDA 2025 report reveals about Africa’s digital rights

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

1 week ago

AI cameras are surveilling the roads in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Written by Nurunnaby Chowdhury

1 week ago

Reporting when the internet goes dark: How journalists find workarounds when cut off

Written by Guest Contributor

4 weeks ago

Myanmar journalists across borders remain dedicated to truth despite risks

Written by Exile Hub

12 May 2026

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How AI is upgrading African dictatorship

The IDS mapping shows cameras clustered where opposition parties organize, not where ordinary crime is highest

Written by Guest Contributor

3 weeks ago

Brazil opens investigation on Google over its AI’s impact on the journalism industry

Government agency inquiries into AI tool using journalistic content with no compensation for media companies

Written by Global Voices Brazil

11 May 2026

Meta removes Bangladeshi community archivists’ pages through false copyright claims

Despite clear calls for coordinated attacks, Meta did not act to safeguard these activist pages

Written by Shoeb A

6 May 2026

Sub-Saharan Africa: Why do less than 12 percent of Africans have AI access?

Today, the challenge is maintaining uninterrupted sessions that incorporate streaming, uploading, and real-time interactions.

Written by Jean Sovon

Translated by Laura

4 May 2026

The Chinese lesson on the human rights approach to AI

China's AI development strategy serves as a case study on balancing the state, the machine, and people’s power

Written by Oiwan Lam

30 April 2026

A lack of electricity and internet access hinders AI adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Connectivity is no longer just about convenience, but also about fairness and fundamental rights.

Written by Jean Sovon

Translated by Laura

28 April 2026

Brazil: A warning on how AI and deepfakes can become an ’excessive risk‘ to women and girls

An organization calls attention to the need for regulation amid gender violence cases in the country

Written by Fernanda Canofre

28 April 2026

AI hype narrative reaches the public healthcare system in El Salvador

El Salvador’s government claims an AI assistant will help make its public healthcare system a reference.

Written by Civic Media Observatory, Samanta Azpurua

28 April 2026

The challenge of civic trust as AI plays a bigger role in public management

The challenge of civic trust in the face of AI is temporal as much as technical

Written by Nishant Shah

27 April 2026

Decolonizing AI at the U.S. border

What happens when AI is deployed to decide who is detained and who is excluded?

Written by UntoldMag

25 April 2026

The technological transformation of Colombia's armed conflict

It makes surveillance more efficient, disinformation faster, and state intervention potentially more unequal.

Written by Kelly Chaib De Mares

Translated by Liam Anderson

25 April 2026

India’s race to adopt AI sparks a deeper question: How can technology respect human rights?

Technologies like AI-enabled surveillance and facial recognition are restricting civic space and aiding state authoritarianism

Written by Rezwan

24 April 2026

‘Sportellino’ is an AI chatbot who helps migrants navigate the maze of Italian bureaucracy

Sportellino creators say the chatbot can be a powerful force for promoting rights, inclusion, and respect

Written by Marisa Petricca

24 April 2026

Africa has 2,000 languages. AI content moderation knows fewer than 20

Around 98 percent of Africa's languages are invisible to AI content moderation systems

Written by Guest Contributor

20 April 2026

AI warfare triggers Putin, as Kremlin moves to dismantle the last pieces of Russian internet

More and more restrictions are being imposed on the internet in Russia

Written by Daria Dergacheva

18 April 2026

Indonesia and the politics of platform governance

Can the Indonesian government truly tame digital platforms?

Written by Irma Garnesia

17 April 2026

Research reveals that EU AI rules stop at its borders with little accountability for human rights impacts abroad

EU exports AI systems that are escalating human rights violations in Palestine and the WANA region

Written by Guest Contributor

16 April 2026

When technology fails women: Online abuse and Nigeria’s digital weak points

Grok has become a powerful tool for amplifying online gender-based violence (OGBV)

Written by Guest Contributor

10 April 2026

Australian creatives push back against ‘AI theft’

Australian artists and cultural workers are demanding stronger laws, more transparency, and remuneration

Written by Mong Palatino

9 April 2026

Lost in translation: How AI models impact low-resource language communities

‘The predominance of English language content online has significantly shaped the development of tools currently on the market’

Written by Aaron Spitler

8 April 2026

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