Stories
'I Cannot Help', Podcast Finale Out Now
Catch the last episode of 'Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring', where Carole, Peter and Sergei reflect on the story they’ve fought to uncover for so long.
Features, investigations and storytelling on the information ecosystem, Big Tech and threats to democracy.
Stories
It is a coup
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
Stories
Revealed: Kremlin exploited “legal loopholes” to influence Brexit vote, ex-MI6 spy claims in new podcast episode
Catch the scoop in the latest episode of 'Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring', hosted by Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes.
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.
Stories
‘Sergei And The Westminster Spy Ring’, New Podcast Trailer Out. Weekly episodes from Tuesday.
A thriller featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes and Sergei Cristo that exposes an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British establishment.
Stories
Citizens 2024 Round-up & what’s to come next
Before we break for Christmas, I want to thank you all for reading our journalism and supporting our campaigns. We want to make tech journalism accessible and report on behalf of people and not the tech industry. With a small team working across everything you can possibly imagine, since summer,
Stories
I long for the days of cat pictures
How have we moved from connection and community, to mass surveillance, monopolies, and the merger of tech and state power? And how is it that in 20 years, despite all the harms created by Big Tech, we haven’t managed to slow it down? By now, we all know the
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.
Stories
Fake audio, real violence. Brand new film out now.
From the team that brought you the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary The Great Hack, comes an explosive new documentary, ‘The Fake Mayor’.
Digital Citizens
USA2024: Watch the Tech Bros
Social media has become a tool for disinformation, online violence, abuse, and the degradation of public discourse. As we approach an election that should be shaped by facts and informed opinions, it feels impossible to trust what we read or watch.
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.
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.
Digital Citizens
The revolution may not be on social
Social media activism is stifled. Physical activism is under attack. How do we resist?
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.