Many expressions of antisemitism in the Labour Party since 2015, and in left-wing spaces more widely for the last decade or more, have borne only a tangential connection to any definitive political argument about Israel/Palestine, and have much...
The strange case of the Burari deaths was finally closed by Delhi police at the end of October. No signs of foul play, they concluded — the 11 members of the Chundawat family had killed themselves in a deadly ritual from which they believed their...
It’s hard to imagine a time when social media wasn’t the staging area for a pitched battle for truth or the engine of total epistemic and societal collapse (depending on whether you like your internet spatialized or not). Indeed, social media...
Making sense of an ambiguous threat like state disinformation is not easy, but more important now than ever. Because nations such as Russia artfully implement denial and deception, it may seem near impossible to determine the scale and types of...
You might not remember the name Justine Sacco, but maybe you remember the story. In 2013, the 30-year-old communications executive flew from New York to South Africa. On the final leg of her trip, she tweeted a racist joke about getting AIDS in...
A real estate agent posts her journey from aspiring fitfluencer to medical checkups and using a wheelchair. An aspiring model shares her story, including footage where she’s shakily trying to walk. A mom, driving to work, is shown having a...
In late September 1947, a month after the India-Pakistan Partition, 10-year-old Muhammad Mukkaram Amin joined his family in moving to Pakistan from India. Riots and violence had started in most cities, and Amin’s father thought it best for the...
Over the summer, Gabby Petito set off with her fiancé with a plan to travel around national parks across the western United States. Around the beginning of September, her social media posts stopped. By the 11th, her family reported her missing.
Indian disinformation campaigns around economic entities often keep nationalism center stage. Targets tend to be foreign companies (such as Amazon or Monsanto) or else whole countries (such as the #BoycottChina social media campaign). However, in...