How Artificial Intelligence could influence Zimbabwe’s 2023 electionsZimbabwe's use of Chinese biometric voter registration will affect election credibilityWritten by Kudzai Chimhangwa13 June 2022
Decolonizing data to tackle digital authoritarianismState control of data is a path to oppression and repressionWritten by Reyhan Topal2 June 2022
Podcast: The state of press freedomJournalists and researchers from five countries discuss press freedomWritten by Ameya Nagarajan14 May 2022
China: Weibo’s new location tag exposes the whereabouts of users, opinion leaders and tiny pinksIt may widen regional divides in the futureWritten by Oiwan Lam3 May 2022
Bringing diversity to Chinese narratives on Ukraine: A Chinese blogger in OdessaWang Jixian is challenging Beijing and Moscow propaganda on UkraineWritten by Filip Noubel16 March 2022
Why have attempts to debunk Russian war propaganda on Weibo failed?The majority of mainland Chinese people have embraced Russian war propagandaWritten by Oiwan Lam8 March 2022
Will Taiwanese academics be targeted by the Hong Kong National Security Law?Prominent activists and academics are already under fireWritten by New Bloom10 February 2022
Internet watchdog finds encryption flaw in mandatory Chinese Olympic appGames attendees are advised to use burner phones inside China.Written by Oiwan Lam22 January 2022
Independent Hong Kong news outlet Citizen News announces shut downThe announcement came days after national security police raided Stand NewsWritten by Hong Kong Free Press3 January 2022
International media watchdog digs into the ‘great leap backwards’ of journalism in ChinaThe report calls China "the world’s largest prison for journalists"Written by Oiwan Lam10 December 2021
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Awards highlights Hong Kong's censored productionsThe censored films touch on the 2019 anti-China extradition protestsWritten by Oiwan Lam2 December 2021
An interview with media scholar Rose Luqiu about WeChat and techno-nationalismHer research explains Chinese diaspora's unwavering loyalty to WeChat Written by Oiwan Lam29 November 2021
Hong Kong to ban films and punish unauthorized screenings on grounds of ‘national security’Unauthorized screening could lead to a three-year imprisonment Written by Hong Kong Free Press28 October 2021
Is the shutting down of Chinese LinkedIn the end of foreign big tech’s engagement with China?What is the "challenging environment" in China?Written by Oiwan Lam18 October 2021
Chinese citizen journalist held incommunicado after COVID reporting reappearsChen Qiushi reappeared after missing for 600 daysWritten by Oiwan Lam4 October 2021
Behind Chinese Wikipedia user ban: threats, verbal attacks and election canvassingThe Wikimedia Foundation banned seven mainland Chinese users and revoked 12 administrators' rights Written by Oiwan Lam23 September 2021
Chinese netizens identify the Weibo supervisor system as a source of arbitrary censorshipA Weibo supervisor was exposed for wrongfully censoring citizensWritten by Oiwan Lam2 September 2021
The evil of banal censorshipThese censored images are mostly mundane. What's the problem here?Written by Lokman Tsui24 August 2021
Journalists call for the release of Cheng Lei who has spent a year in detention in ChinaShe was a TV journalist in China before her arrestWritten by Mong Palatino17 August 2021
What has Hong Kong lost one year after the National Security Law was enacted?Hong Kong government said the law has restored stability.Written by The Stand News5 July 2021