Hong Kong protests: Trump signs Human Rights and Democracy Act into law ~news hong kong china Article 528 words 18 votes
Former British Columbia lawmaker and deputy speaker of the BC government says he was detained by China in 2015, had his government phone searched, and was accused of "endangering national security". ~news canada.bc china Article 1654 words 6 votes
The Chinese military helped clean up Hong Kong's streets after protests. Some pro-democracy politicians are upset. ~news hong kong china Article 6 votes
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy ~tech facebook social media Article 6 votes
Climate breakdown, capatalism and democracy ~enviro climate change Article 2127 words, published Nov 2 2018 8 votes
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock ~tech social media Article 1045 words 13 votes
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests ~tech android social media Article 1977 words 15 votes
Millions of the comments posted during public US debates like the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities ~tech Article 4461 words 18 votes
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy ~finance economics business Article 2166 words 5 votes
Democracy devouring itself: The paper predicting the end of democracy ~science psychology political science Article 1812 words, published Sep 8 2019 20 votes
India rising: Can a giant democracy become an economic colossus? ~news india Article 3186 words, published Sep 3 2019 9 votes
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy ~games.tabletop board games Article 1239 words 6 votes
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed ~tech privacy social media internet Article 887 words 11 votes
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news ~tech Article 3335 words 11 votes
Facebook’s Libra and national monetary sovereignty: A tale of two monopolies ~finance cryptocurrency Article 914 words 4 votes
UK forms citizens’ assembly on climate change ~enviro climate change Article 567 words, published Jun 20 2019 7 votes
Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies ~enviro pollution Article 1108 words, published May 31 2019 4 votes
Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities ~humanities Article 2142 words, published May 14 2019 15 votes
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy ~news finland journalism Article 23 votes
Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to UK democracy ~tech facebook social media Article 10 votes
Roger McNamee, FB investor, author "Zucked": mentoring Zuck, Russia, big data, surveillance-PT1 ~tech facebook privacy Video 57:00, published Mar 5 2019 5 votes
Kim Stanley Robinson’s lunar revolution ~books science fiction Article 2488 words, published Jan 7 2019 4 votes
Spurning Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's vision, Turks leave in droves, draining money and talent ~news turkey Article 1038 words 12 votes
The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence: Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens—and undermining its own democracy in the process. ~tech Article 1341 words 6 votes
'It's going to be chaos': Thais to vote in February for first time in eight years ~news thailand politics Article 6 votes
Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros ~tech facebook social media Article 661 words 12 votes
New technology favors tyranny. Yuval Noah Harrari on artificial intelligence, democracy, and the bigger picture ~tech Article 4581 words 6 votes
Across US, polling stations are slowly disappearing ~news usa politics.usa Article 1813 words, published Sep 6 2018 13 votes
Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? ~tech facebook social media Article 14 330 words 31 votes
70 Years Ago, America Restored Democracy to Germany. Now Germany Wants to Return the Favor. ~news germany usa politics.usa Article 1483 words 20 votes
Jawar Mohammed's red-carpet return signals Ethiopia's political sea change ~news ethiopia politics Article 1221 words 2 votes
Canada doesn’t have an inheritance tax. For the sake of democracy, that needs to change. ~finance Article 938 words 23 votes
How Facebook is undermining democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan ~tech facebook social media Video 5 votes
An unlikely group of billionaires and politicians has created the most unbelievable tax break ever ~finance economics Article 3508 words 13 votes
Defending democracy a generational struggle, Australian MPs warn ~news australia politics china Article 3 votes
Poland purges Supreme Court, and protesters take to streets ~news politics poland Article 1585 words 10 votes