F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Facebook cleared in fake news defamation case
Last month, Syrian refugee Anas Modamani filed a lawsuit against Facebook after a barrage of fake news linked an image of him and German…
Wikileaks releases 2.5m Syrian emails
Whistleblowing site Wikileaks has just published some 2.5-million emails from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names. According to Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, the files…
New online project looks to ‘highlight the human cost’ of Syria conflict
Syria was one of the last Middle East countries to get swept up in the Zeitgeist of the Arab Spring. Things have not, however,…
US web censorship tools sold to Iraq being used by Syrian regime
As the uprising in Syria, one of the last and most brutal of the Arab Spring movement, continues unabated, a US firm specialising in…
