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Big Tech, AI, and the quiet expansion of digital surveillance in Nigeria
...systems designed to maximise commercial value from information can create incentives to collect more data than people reasonably expect or understand.
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What comes after networked authoritarianism?
October’s spotlight on Big Tech and Authoritarianism explored a range of relationships between tech companies and political actors across the global majority.
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Stocks started the week with promise but ended in despair. Our take on the big reversal
Big Tech earnings reignited AI spending fears, sending investors into defensive stocks.
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AI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it?
Big Tech’s nuclear power deals raise urgent questions about who will bear the cost of AI’s growing energy demands.
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Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus
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 authoritarianism — Belarusian style.
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Palestine is already living under the Big Tech authoritarianism the world is being sold
Technologies developed, tested and refined under occupation do not stay there; they get exported to the rest of the world
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Nvidia and Cisco confirm multimillion-dollar donations to Trump's White House ballroom
Big Tech gave millions to Trump's White House ballroom, documents show
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How AI apps are offering free substitutes for Big Tech software
AI-developed ArtCraft is challenging Adobe after disrupting legacy software's economic model.
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Support Global Voices’ Spotlight: Big Tech and Authoritarianism
With these stories, we aim to pull back the camouflage that Big Tech uses to obscure their connection with oppressive governments, and to highlight cases of technological authoritarianism — and resistance — around the world.
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‘Just ask Grok’: How ISIL is using Big Tech’s AI to build bombs
Evidence shared exclusively with Al Jazeera shows ISIL supporters sharing ways to bypass AI safeguards.