In Africa, periods of unrest and protests are often fraught with internet restrictions and shutdowns, like Togo experienced in June.

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big ...

Today’s AI models struggle to operate in smaller languages like Cantonese and Vietnamese, which are still spoken by tens of ...

Launched in the fall of 2023, Press Forward is working to reimagine local news nationwide. Together, more than 90 funders – from local community foundations to national foundations – have invested ...

An alarming trend has emerged across nations of the Global South, where increasing state surveillance and draconian legislation are systematically eroding democratic values.

LGBTQ rights endure when they are written into or otherwise grounded in national constitutions; culturally normalized across ...

Our fractured attention spans make it more difficult for us to participate in democracy and make it easier for ...

Party that has failed three times to win presidency since 2016 faces reckoning over its ties to China in looming recall vote ...

About 1,500 public broadcasters nationwide face severe budget cuts after the Senate voted Thursday to claw back $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In the sprawling digital landscape of Pakistan, a new form of resistance is quietly taking shape, not on the streets, but on the screens of smartphones and computers. Behind the hashtags and viral ...

Taken together, all this points to a new era in media content regulation and risk for companies. Ascendant views in the Supreme Court seem open to the idea, and prosecutors have taken notice of the ...

Mayfair native Kathryn Ott Lovell is one of those behind-the-scenes characters whose names you might not know. But after ...