15 countries were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday including China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, raising alarm among human rights groups that say the repression of freedoms in those countries threaten the legitimacy of the international body.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google accusing the company of abusing its dominance over smaller rivals.
The European Union has sanctioned six senior Russians over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny after laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent that requires presidential authority.
Due to the role that social media may have played leading up to the beheading of a French middle school teacher by a Chechen Islamist, French state authorities met with global social media company representatives to address the problem of "cyber-Islamism."
The U.S. Justice Department charged six Russian GRU intelligence officers with committing cyberattacks targeting a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses.
As the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary, Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss explore the declining effectiveness and influence of the UN and propose a "Third UN" conducive to non-state actor participation and consisting of "a shift to a post-bureaucratic, less hierarchical, more networked organizational policy model."
In a review of Michael Anton's book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, Nathan Pinkosk takes a deep look at the reasons for the post-constitutional stage toward which America is rapidly heading.
Using artificial intelligence tools and thousands of employees focused on election-based content, Facebook removed 120,000 posts from its platforms for attempting to obstruct voting and blocked 2.2 million ads for failing to complete its authorization process to target U.S. audiences.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google accusing the company of abusing its dominance over smaller rivals.
Writing in The Hill, Chris Talgo argues that Big Tech's unprecedented control over political expression is exacerbating the public’s perception, highlighted in a 2018 Pew Research Center study, that social media platforms actively censor political views that those companies find objectionable.
Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez has proposed changing how members of the country's top judicial body, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), are appointed, which has triggered a political and judicial storm about the independence of the institution.
The European Union has sanctioned six senior Russians over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny after laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent that requires presidential authority.
In an effort to push for a global tech tax rate, Europe and Africa are joining forces through The Organization for Economic and Development to publish technical blueprints on how to tax digital companies across borders to compete with American skepticism and to aid in Covid economic recovery.
NY Times reports that violence is expanding in Burkina Faso, as Islamist extremists groups are taking full advantage of African state militaries and government failures in West Africa to expand jihadist violence and destabalize the Sahel region.
A veteran leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, who is also a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization, has announced his interest in being a candidate in the 2021 race for president, which could signal the Islamic revolution moving from the clerical class to the military establishment ensuring an Islamist Revolutionary Regime in Iran.
Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), two jihadist groups operating across West Africa, continue their campaign of violence in Cameroon, killing three civilians and kidnapping five children.
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