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Lebanon protests: Authorities prey on digital spaces to silence criticism
This article is a crosspost from Global Voices. Editor’s note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative…
Website Blocking in the Arab Region: Monitoring and Counteraction Techniques
Governments in various Arab countries are increasingly investing in financial and human resources to control internet content and the free…
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…