Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
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On a heavy, smoke-filled Thursday in South Africa, the rhythms of ordinary life were violently broken. In the coastal city of Durban, police moved through the urban centre as five cars burned in the streets, and shops owned by foreign nationals were ransacked. In Soweto, the Johannesburg township whose name…
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Luxembourg is often described as a place where things work. The streets are safe, the economy is strong, and the political system has been a quiet constant in a noisy world. Yet beneath this calm surface, something is stirring. According to a recent survey commissioned by the Centre for Citizenship Education to mark its tenth anniversary, seven out of ten residents believe that the country’s democratic culture should be strengthened. That is a striking number for a country that rarely thinks of itself as being in crisis. It suggests that people are not asking for revolution, but they are asking…
A few days ago, a strange story flickered across news feeds and messaging apps. According to reports, an Israeli plumber who happened to be on board a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had helped foil an alleged attempt by the plane’s co-pilot to hijack or crash the aircraft. It was the kind of headline that makes you pause, not only because of the danger it implies, but because of what happened next. Within hours, social media was flooded with thousands of posts insisting that the whole event had been staged. People were calling it a false flag operation,…
