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Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role disseminating fake news in Africa. In Nigeria, it tried to influence the 2015 election

5 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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Fake news is not just a Western problem

Misinformation is rife, but it’s nothing new, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Photo from the relaunch issue of New Internationalist

23 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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A look inside the relaunched New Internationalist

It's finally here. Issue 515, the relaunch magazine, has officially landed!

9 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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How we chose our relaunch cover

The making of #NI515: why we went for Tim Hetherington’s portrait from Liberia as the relaunch cover for the redesigned...

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14 Apr 2021 5 minute read

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13 Apr 2021 3 minute read

Lula is back in the game

After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running...

12 Apr 2021 6 minute read

The space invaders

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about our need for privacy in a digital age.

Conspiracy theorist graffiti alleging terrorism behind the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013, pictured in Montreal. Credit: Cold, Indrid/Flickr

11 Apr 2021 2 minute read

How to talk with conspiracy theorists

Vanessa Baird offers some nifty tips in tackling a growing problem.

6 Apr 2021 6 minute read

Dark money

It twists and corrupts democracy in hidden ways. Peter Geoghegan explores the murky world of think tanks...

5 Apr 2021 6 minute read

How we are gulled

Propaganda and media expert Peter Pomerantsev on tackling disinformation and the power of the digital...

Chef Fatmata Binta puts the ingredient fonio – a nutritious, gluten-free and fibre-rich grain – centrestage in her Fulani Kitchen in Ghana

31 Mar 2021 1 minute read

Freedom food

Rebel chefs are on a mission to decolonize diets across sub-Saharan Africa. Kareem Arthur goes in search of...

29 Mar 2021 5 minute read

Could an international ecocide law be around the corner?

Lawyers are drafting a legal definition of ecocide which could lead to prosecutions at the International Criminal Court....

24 Mar 2021 5 minute read

The interview: Michael Fakhri

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has a bold vision for a trade system that...

23 Mar 2021 4 minute read

The UK pursued vaccine nationalism – now it’s paying the price

Having blocked proposals from Global South countries to suspend intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, the UK is now on...

17 Mar 2021 3 minute read

What if…we banned the intensive farming of animals?

Hazel Healy imagines an end to cheap meat.

Faustina, a street vendor in Accra, Ghana, has a steady stream of customers each day. She pays daily, monthly, and annual tolls to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly in order to carry out her work. Women like Faustina constitute about 70 per cent of the union's membership, and vendors of vegetables, grains, legumes, fish, and other related items like utensils, charcoal, and provisions are well represented. Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

17 Mar 2021 4 minute read

Business interests have hijacked the UN food summit

Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.

16 Mar 2021 2 minute read

Saving the Sundarbans

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable...

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