Media

Putin’s media strategy? 'A free jazz orchestra.'

May 18, 2018

"What’s funny is that they are using the language of diversity of opinion and freedom of speech. 'What’s wrong with alternative opinions? More free speech? What’s wrong with free speech?' That’s kind of the language they’ve adopted, which is our language,” said Russia expert Peter Pomerantsev.

Russia's RT is contesting the very meaning of 'truth'

America Abroad

May 11, 2018

RT wants "to create chaos by suggesting there is no such thing as objective truth, rather there are simply dozens of competing narratives.”

The man who taught the Kremlin how to win the internet

America Abroad

May 07, 2018

Konstantin Rykov started his career creating sites like idiot.ru and spreading sexualized photos of women on the internet. He ended up teaching the Kremlin how to move the internet in its favor.

Global Politics

For years, activists in Southeast Asia warned Facebook that content on the platform could lead to real-life violence. Then it did.

PRI's The World

April 27, 2018

"We didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm," Mark Zuckerberg said during a company earnings call

Justice

Life sentence for Danish submarine entrepreneur who murdered Swedish journalist

Reuters

April 25, 2018

Danish inventor Peter Madsen was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering, sexually mutilating and dismembering a Swedish female journalist with premeditation aboard his home-made submarine in Copenhagen harbor in 2017.

Culture

In Japan, there's a newspaper by people who couldn't leave their homes

PRI's The World

April 19, 2018

The government of Japan estimates that there are a half million people there who are "hikikomori" — shut-ins who've barely left their homes for six months. But the number could be much higher.

Culture

Asia Argento on relearning how to live her life after sexual assault

PRI's The World

April 18, 2018

Italian actress and activist Asia Argento, one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, came under a lot of backlash in her native Italy. Still, Argento says she doesn’t regret her action and hopes she can change some of Italy’s misogynist culture.