In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital ...

SafeClick is a video game that teaches children with Down syndrome about digital safety. A virtual assistant, Sol the Owl, ...

"Artistic activism uses the emotional experience of art as a prompt for action and directs that action towards change, ...

AI-powered fake news sites have generated 318 articles on the eastern DRC conflict, relations with Rwanda, and contested ...

Bangladesh’s traditionally nomadic Bede community faces severe displacement from floods and eroding rivers. Lacking fixed ...

Many incidents of harassment, intimidation, or discomfort in public spaces never become official complaints. Some women do ...

Our idea is not simply to collect complaints, but to transform individual students’ experiences into evidence that can be ...

This post by Grace Kobare is part of Global Voices’ October 2026 Spotlight series, “Big Tech and Authoritarianism.” In this Spotlight, we explore how Big Tech facilitates and hinders authoritarian ...

This post is part of Global Voices’ October 2026 Spotlight series, “Big Tech and Authoritarianism.” In this Spotlight, we explore how Big Tech facilitates and hinders authoritarian governments and ...

This spotlight is, then, a form of protest in its own right: a way of reasserting that protest is legitimate, important for democracy, and everywhere.