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Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role disseminating fake news in Africa. In Nigeria, it tried to influence the 2015 election

5 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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Fake news is not just a Western problem

Misinformation is rife, but it’s nothing new, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Photo from the relaunch issue of New Internationalist

23 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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A look inside the relaunched New Internationalist

It's finally here. Issue 515, the relaunch magazine, has officially landed!

9 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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How we chose our relaunch cover

The making of #NI515: why we went for Tim Hetherington’s portrait from Liberia as the relaunch cover for the redesigned...

21 Oct 2020 4 minute read

Chile’s social uprising: One year on

Carole Concha Bell speaks to defiant protesters who have been met with violence and intimidation ahead of...

Photo by Bureau of Land Management New Mexico

19 Oct 2020 3 minute read

Sun sets on Big Oil

Endtimes for Big Oil. Danny Chivers and Jess Worth have some good news from the frontlines...

19 Oct 2020 4 minute read

Safeguarding without snooping

Nick Dowson explores options for monitoring people in the interest of public health while respecting their...

A car cleaner in Monrovia, Liberia. Informal workers have been hardest hit by lockdown measures. TOMMY E TRENCHARD/ALAMY

14 Oct 2020 6 minute read

A human story

Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.

Health workers demonstrate handwashing techniques to Mukuru community members. Photo: Victoria Nthenge

14 Oct 2020 3 minute read

View from Africa

Abandoned by the state, self-organized health workers in Kenya are absorbing the brunt of the pandemic, writes ...

13 Oct 2020 7 minute read

It’s official, the global economy is a ‘debtor’s prison’

As the World Bank and IMF sound the alarm on debts driven sky high by Covid-19 in some of the world’s poorest nations,...

12 Oct 2020 3 minute read

Let the light in

Carole Concha Bell on how projectionists have been censored for criticizing the Chilean government’s...

Health workers in action at the Mpilo Central Hospital Covid19 Testing laboratory. Bulawayo, 25 April 2020. Credit: KB Mpofu / ILO

12 Oct 2020 2 minute read

Doctors priced out

Joylean M Baro on how Zimbabwean doctors on the frontlines of Covid-19 care have been...

Make them pay action at COP25, Madrid. Credit: Victor Barro/FoEI

12 Oct 2020 3 minute read

5 polluters making the pandemic pay

Amy Hall gives a rundown of some of the companies and industries who have ramped up their ruinous...

Students of group 11 and 12 get computer education in the computer classroom of secondary government school ‘Anjoor’ in the village Ramanagaram, 60km from Bangalore. Credit: Wim Klerx/Computer caste

8 Oct 2020 3 minute read

View from India

Schoolchildren are falling through the digital divide, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Natalia Kaliada on the women rising up against Alexander Lukashenko.

8 Oct 2020 2 minute read

Dreaming together in Belarus

Natalia Kaliada on the women rising up against Alexander Lukashenko.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

8 Oct 2020 3 minute read

In Brazil, conspiracies are for professionals

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

29 Sep 2020 1 minute read

Hunger: the facts

A data dive into global trends explores how rising malnourishment co-exists with overabundance and waste.

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