As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks and tendrils of smoke corkscrew into 2025, I want to ask: what were the important news stories of this...

Whitney Webb is being digitally repersoned. What does this mean for the future of AI and digital ID? What does this mean for the future of humanity? And can...

Major shake-ups are occurring across the global stage. History is replete with examples of breaks with the past from major political, economic, technological, and social upheaval. Throughout the ages,...

Today the Independent Media Alliance brings you a panel focusing on the incoming Trump administration, its cabinet picks thus far, and the policy positions they are proposing, as well...

Earlier this month Australia’s government announced plans to ban anyone under the age of sixteen from using social media. Social media companies aren’t happy about it, predictably, and the...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

The headlines are full of measles at the moment, in the way that always reeks of coordination. The measles outbreak in the US has been simmering away for weeks,...

Riley Waggaman Things are getting very digital in Russia. For your reading convenience I have decided to compile important updates about Russia’s “digital transformation” into a single blog post. Thank you...

Riley Waggaman It seems QR codes will soon be back in vogue in Russia. Via Interfax: The Ministry of Digital Development, together with the FSB, will submit to the Russian...