Artificial intelligence in the service of the far right: looking at Fratelli d’Italia - Voxeurop
Fratelli d'Italia, the post-fascist party that won a majority in the Italian elections, had plans to use artificial intelligence to assign jobs to young people. Such an initiative is not new to European right-wingers. Algorithm Watch looks at the links between AI and the far right.
Dentro il più grande network italiano di revenge porn, su Telegram
Siamo entrati nella chat dove oltre 40mila persone ogni giorno mettono in scena il rito collettivo dello stupro virtuale di gruppo. Foto delle ex, ma anche pedopornografia, in uno spazio online accessibile a chiunque che può rovinare una vita
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.
Rather than being outside the mainstream, Turkey’s far-right is disturbingly close to the centers of power. From Left to Right: Sinan Oğan, Ümit Özdağ and Meral Akşener (picture from Daily Sabah, A…
My mother, the troll: ‘I think she lost sight of the McCanns’ humanity’
When Ben Leyland’s mum said she was in trouble, he had no idea she was about to be exposed for sending hundreds of abusive tweets about Madeleine McCann’s parents – or of the tragic end to her story
She was a popular yoga guru. Then she embraced QAnon conspiracy theories
Themes like everything is connected, nothing happens without a purpose, and nothing is what it seems are central to both yoga philosophy and conspiratorial thinking.
How the QAnon Queen Funds Her Cult: ‘She’s Scamming People’
The “QAnon Queen of Canada,” Romana Didulo, has used her followers’ bank accounts, sometimes without permission. And she’s raised more than $140,000 CAD.
Aleksandr Dugin e Daria Dugina, padre e figlia sacerdoti di un impero metafisico da costruire sul sangue di un paese - Valigia Blu
Una ricostruzione dei percorsi di Aleksandr Dugin e di sua figlia per fornire un quadro delle loro idee e per far chiarezza su alcuni miti sorti intorno alla figura dell’intellettuale russo.
How Andrew Tate built an army of lonely, angry men
Andrew Tate's brand of hyper-toxic masculinity is a cynical attempt to game TikTok – and it's working. The real question is why so many young men are taken in by it
QAnon ‘Queen Of Canada’ Romana Didulo Wants Some American Subjects
A QAnon chief whose followers consider she’s the “Queen of Canada” has now set her sights on the United States, urging her followers to implement her harmful
The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.
Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O. (Published 2022)
Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”