Debates
'The Walls Have Eyes’
In this Q&A, Manasa Narayanan speaks to Petra Molnar about the UK's push for unchecked AI ‘innovation’ and what it means for the existing surveillance state and migrants.
Manasa Narayanan
Multiplatform journalist. Specialises in digital investigations and reports on digital spaces, Big Tech/AI, data rights and tech policy.
Citizen Common
When the few control what the many see
Director Asif Kapadia on the challenges of getting 2073 made and released.
Citizen Common
The science fiction movie that isn't fiction
An interview with Director Asif Kapadia whose film 2073 could be set in 2025
Stories
The Tech Bros Move Fast and Break Things – First Up: Democracy
We are now subjects of an unaccountable technocapitalist order rather than citizens in a democracy, write Manasa Narayanan and Sabrina Provenzani.
Citizen Common
Techno-authoritarianism is upon us. How to fight back?
With Trump's inauguration just a few days away, fears are mounting about his attacks on free press. What can we learn from the journalists who have already faced the wrath of tyrants?
Public Inquiry
Gender Divide: What’s the internet got to do with it?
Toxic male spaces that thrive on hating women are springing up; what does this mean for politics and women online? Plus a bonus story about a nonprofit tackling online harassment of girls through education.
Public Inquiry
Cooperatives, an antidote to Big Tech?
Worker tech co-ops taking on Big Tech, one project at a time.
Public Inquiry
Are romance bots really a mental health fix?
A whole industry of romance AI apps are marketing themselves as something they are not.
Citizen Common
Who decides how kids use phones?
Should it be Big Tech, the government or parents?
Public Inquiry
The TikTok Election - How Reform got to be so popular
In this Public Inquiry feature, we analyse the TikTok content put out by UK political parties in the lead up to polls last week.
Public Inquiry
Visibility or Invisibility: Does social media help or hinder pro-Palestine university camps?
The Citizens’ Manasa Narayanan travelled to UK universities to learn how students in pro-Palestine camps are making use of social media: amidst media mistrust, censorship, far-right harassment and university crackdown.
Public Hearing
Mistrust, censorship and surveillance: Pro-Palestine students wrestle with how to mobilise in the modern age
Students from Pro-Palestine camps across the UK tell us how they are using technology to mobilise and protest against the war on Gaza.