How Twitter Changed
I recall the earlier days of Twitter with some nostalgia. Now I am reluctant to use it (for multiple reasons). Should I return to proactive use?
IRGC Proscribed
There might be implications here in relation to online activities as well, especially in relation to ‘influencing’ action: “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been labelled a threat...
TikTok Kiss Punishment (updated)
Updated: SCMP, At Indonesia’s sharia frontier, 21 lashes for a TikTok kiss ‘is our right’, 11 Jul 2026 “Footage of the punishment quickly went viral: an unmarried couple each...
Palestinian Digital Archive
Tamara Davison, Wired, How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased, 6 July 2026 Here’s an excellent article from Tamara Davison in Wired on the significance...
Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral (updated)
There has been extensive coverage of the Ayatollah’s funeral across multiple channels. It has been interesting to see how embedded it has become within Iran’s media system, especially as...
Iran Net Analysis
Fateme Karimkhan, New Lines Magazine, Iran’s Internet Blackout Was Decades in the Making, 1 Jul 2026 “While the scale of the recent blackout was unprecedented, it was far from...
AI ‘Terrorism Assistance‘
Damien McElroy, The National, AI models provide assistance to terror attacks, 1 Jul 2026 “July 01, 2026″The group created the counter-terrorism AI benchmark, which found one third of responses could help...