Media

With media bans and treason charges, well-financed conspiracy peddlers are being shut down.

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

Their many differences aside, both trends speak to a willingness to put personal experience over hard fact.

“We Are Bellingcat” charts the rise of the digital sleuths who have used open-source investigations to foil Russia’s intelligence agencies.

“You Don’t Belong Here” celebrates three trailblazers who cleared the way for generations of female journalists.

This isn’t about regulating Big Tech. It’s about fleecing foreigners for news that Australians no longer want to pay for.

Lisa Davies, the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, talks to Foreign Policy about Facebook’s decision to block news for its users in Australia.

Volodymyr Zelensky is taking on his country’s pro-Russian media machine. But can he emerge victorious?

A proposed law would shake the global internet—and put the Biden team’s Silicon Valley friendships to the test.

Beijing has blocked the social app after a brief flowering of open discussion.

Even in death, billionaire Sheldon Adelson remains good for Israel's Netanyahu.

Global celebrities are helping Indians to fight their government’s crackdown on dissent.

If platforms aren’t going to enforce their rules properly, they should go back to Athenian ostracism.

Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.

Paul Rusesabagina is the latest dissident to be caught in the Rwandan ruler’s authoritarian net. Western governments must stop portraying President Paul Kagame’s repressive regime as a development success story.

Liberal democracies must work to recreate a sense of shared identity online.

How FP set out to change the world.

Why the decline of foreign reporting makes for worse foreign policy.

Social media’s manufactured hate needs solutions beyond censorship.