Image by Oiwan Lam Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform, had recently updated its application to show individual users’ geolocation data, citing the need to prevent disinformation and rumours. Despite privacy concerns, the location da…
Brazilian artists campaign to mobilize youth to vote in upcoming elections
Stickers created by the “Olha o barulhinho” campaign to reach out to teenagers. ‘Pirilili’ is a reference to the sound of the electronic ballot | Illustration: Giovana Fleck/Global Voices A few months ahead of Brazil’s October presidential, gubernatori…
Twitter and Facebook won’t counter disinformation in the upcoming Kenyan elections
Kenya election posters. Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, March 4, 2013. (CC BY-SA 2.0) In Africa, social media companies like Twitter and Facebook place more urgency on developing new products or fixing bugs in existing products than on developing comp…
Shagz Chronicles: The Kenyan podcast that wants you to fall in love with the Kikuyu language and culture
Shagz Chronicles: A Kenyan Podcast in Kikuyu language. Used with permission. Editor’s note: From April 28, 2022, Shagz Chronicles will be managing the @DigiAfricanLang Twitter account to share their experiences with the revitalization and promotion of …
Weaponising the law: Zimbabwe’s new frontier in digital rights repression
Image courtesy Ameya Nagarajan Zimbabweans live in an increasingly repressive environment for digital rights, particularly targeting human rights defenders, and lately non-governmental organizations. The law is a major tool for such repression and legi…
Inflation, youth, and protests in Mongolia
Youth protests at Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, April 8, 2022. Screenshot from the Mongolian National Broadcaster YouTube channel Following the massive violent Januaryprotests in Kazakhstan, there were attempts to analyze the potential of protest mov…
‘Clean monuments’ campaign in Azerbaijan leads to criticisms
One of the prominent monuments cleaned on the first day of the campaign. Screenshot form a YouTube video by Vugar Imanov. Ahead of the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as the World Heritage Day celebrated every year on April 18, th…
Reframing narratives about climate change in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region
The Ñembi Guasu reserve following a wildfire. Photo by Juan de Dios Garay for Fundación Nativa. Republished with permission. Droughts, wildfires, flooding, and deforestation are just some of the environmental pressures plaguing Bolivia’s Gran Chaco reg…
Are ongoing peaceful, creative and spontaneous protests Sri Lanka’s “Arab Spring moment”?
Protesters at the Presidential Secretariat near Galle Face Green. Image via Groundviews. Used under a content partnership agreement. Peaceful and spontaneous protests have intensified across Sri Lanka over the past few weeks since March 31, 2022. The g…