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  • KOREA-SOUTH/INTERNET

    The internet has become a tool for authoritarian repression

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    03.26.2021

    While the internet revolution may have empowered activists, it has also handed new tools to despots for stamping out dissent through digital surveillance, disinformation and internet access to their people.

  • Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    The scary truths about Trump’s nuclear summit

    by 
    Violet Blue
    Violet Blue
    06.15.2018

    In the first summit meeting between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, Donald Trump met with Kim Jong-un on June 12, 2018, in Singapore. The two leaders smiled warmly, posed for cameras as friends, shook hands, and Trump spoke in glowing terms of admiration about Kim at the news conference.