Italian pride. Honor. Homeland. Loyalty. Sacrifice. These are the watchwords of the new Italian extreme right who are indoctrinated in the cult of authoritarianism, violence and xenophobia. Paolo Beri...

A presentation of the book The Compatriots: the brutal and chaotic history of Russia's exiles, émigrés, and agents abroad (Public Affairs, 2019) by its authors Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. T...

Misinformation about the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has spread faster than the virus itself. Images, videos and text messages on social media and closed messaging apps have witnessed racist explan...

Democracy is under threat in Africa. For decades, the continent has been associated with sit-tight dictators and one-party systems. For instance, seven of the world’s 10 longest-serving leaders are ...

Starting on 05 August 2019, Indian authorities imposed an Internet and social-media blackout in Kashmir for more than five months; although some restrictions were lifted in mid-January, many remain in...

Event sponsored by Google News Initiative.

An unprecedented degree of lies and obfuscation – including from the highest levels of governments - has challenged traditional newsroom norms of fairness and balance. Journalists have had to rethin...

#JournalismAI is a project of Polis LSE launched in 2019 in collaboration with the Google News Initiative. In November 2019 the report New powers, new responsibilities. A global survey of journalism a...

Everyone loves to hear about success stories in digital transformation, but learning how New York Times, FT and the like have done it is not necessarily helpful for smaller, less prestigious media out...

Event sponsored by Google News Initiative.