An interview with Emily Parker, former writer for the Wall Street Journalist and member of Hillary Clinton’s staff. Parker’s new book examines the impact of the Internet on citizens of authoritarian governments.
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A new International Consortium of Investigative Journalists report lists over 21,000 people in China and Hong Kong – among them military and political leaders – with secret offshore holdings. Did China imprison activists and dissidents writers to divert attention from the corruption scandal?
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The Iranian government surprised the world when it announced – via social media – the historic nuclear deal with the UN Security Council. Although Iran’s stance on social media has been softening since the “Twitter Revolution” of 2009, censorship, as explained here, still has a firm grip.
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Fiction and reality blur on a crumbling internet. “S was lost in his fury. He realized that his old friends, with whom he had shared revolutionary ambitions and hopes in these online communities, had passed into exile, outside the realm of Java, Twitter, and Facebook.”
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This week, columnist Israel Centeno contemplates how the Internet affects our perception of reality.
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This week: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan on when censorship is permissible, cartoonists face censorship in South Africa, and free speech in Kazakhstan.
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Daniil Kislov, founder and editor-in-chief of Ferghana News, paints a bleak outlook for journalism in Uzbekistan and says the independent media in the country is in a “deep freeze.”
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