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Content Moderation Bias: Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube Cancel Leila Khaled
On September 23, Zoom cancelled a virtual event featuring the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) veteran…
#NoExamShutdown: 4 MENA countries shut down the internet so far “to fight cheating”!
This year, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to shut down and throttle the internet during…
Surveillance in Lebanon: A crisis of privacy
This article is a crosspost from Global Voices. This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is…
Security Concerns with Lebanon’s New Contact Tracing App
On September 1, the Ministry of Public Health launched Ma3an – Together Against Corona, a contact-tracing application intended to stop…
Terranet Should Update Their Infrastructure Security And Be Transparent About Their Users’ Information Safety
On September 8, many websites in Lebanon, including governmental ones, were hacked by an alleged Iranian hacker. After a quick…
COVID-19 Fake News in Lebanon: Who Is Responsible?
The advent of COVID-19 (known locally as the coronavirus) in Lebanon last February has further deepened existing divisions within certain…
How To Open Your Data: SMEX Is Here To Help
In the wake of the August 4th explosion in Beirut, there was a significant response from civil society trying to…