Social Media Ideas for Digital Activism

The 'influencerization' of activism: How virality is replacing real-world organizing - opinion

Activism is now increasingly judged by whether it travels online, not by whether it changes institutions or improves lives. The algorithm does not reward effectiveness. It rewards...

Digital surveillance is breaking activist mental health

Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can l...

‘The Eternaut’ and civil resistance in the algorithmic age

How can human rights organizations decipher the "gaps" in AI to reconnect with new generations and rebuild the community?

Digital Freedom: How Responsible Online Citizens Build a Safer, Stronger Philippines

Why the next generation of Filipino freedom starts with digital responsibility The digital world is no longer just an alternate reality for Filipinos. It is an extension of everyda...

Regulating digital campaigning

Gender diversity under pressure: Resistance, community, and the politics of belonging

As attacks on gender rights spread worldwide, communities continue building solidarity, visibility, and care across borders, making gender diversity an urgent focus for Global Voic...

The Rise of Digital Citizenship: Why the Future Internet May Need More Than Just Users

Imagine explaining today’s internet to someone living in the year 1995.Continue reading on Medium »

From Digital Outrage To Democratic Mobilisation: The Emergence Of The

Cockroach Janta Party's First Mega Rally at Jantar Mantar: Decoding the Politics of Youth Anger and Democratic AssertionBackground:The first mega rally organized by the Cockroach J...

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“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.” ― bell hooks, author … Continue reading →

For LGBTQ+ people in Egypt, the internet is both a lifeline and a trap

Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws

AI ‘slopaganda’ and the battle for Philippine political reality

The Philippines is no stranger to politically weaponised memes and internet trolls. What has changed is the way information warfare is waged, now requiring nothing more than a smar...

Why gender diversity matters in technology

In the face of widespread oppression and commodification of the global south, our hope rests on the strength of our diversity as we move together imperfectly towards our collective...

New Pan-African Initiative Launched to Protect Digital Rights Across 30 Countries

Zimbabwe-based creative and digital media organisation Magamba Network has launched a new three-year initiative aimed at protecting digital civic space and strengthening online par...

Power, Phones and Patriarchy: Digital Exclusion as Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

With the backdrop of the global village, a series of interconnected data streams powers the glowing screens. On the surface level, accessing the digital world has never been easier...

Democracy is under threat from digital radicalization

The signal we cannot ignore: What the LONDA 2025 report reveals about Africa’s digital rights

The digital landscape is becoming increasingly dangerous for vulnerable groups. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is a growing epidemic that most legal frameworks fail t...

The Social Media Wave And The Reality Of Governance

Virality Is Not GovernanceBy Nawaz Ahmad DhobiWhen a satirical social media page becomes a central talking point of national political discourse, it usually signals a deeper fricti...

Staged at sea: Activism for the algorithm - opinion

You can care about Palestinian civilians without empowering movements that excuse extremism. You can oppose suffering without turning it into spectacle.

Voices rising against digital toxicity

Actors condemn trolling and intrusive commentary as online culture grows increasingly aggressive

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“Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it’s something you ought to do yourself.” — G.K. Chesterton, writer • … Continue reading →

The illusion of online public opinion in Lebanon’s political conflicts

Mere repetition of information increases perceptions of consensus. People judge repeated claims as more widely believed, regardless of whether they are true or false.

Can California’s new online platform help rebuild democracy?

In the months that followed last year’s Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires, something quieter but no less consequential has happened in those same neighborhoods. More than 900 pe...

When surveillance becomes part of the landscape

The advance of these technologies is not occurring as an exception. They are established silently, without public debate, without transparency and without people knowing the fate o...