UAE ‘Digital Gambling‘
This is open to discussion, given perspectives on gambling:...
AI Phone Banks
Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate...
‘One Wife Two Husbands’
Unsurprisingly, this story went viral, and it introduces complex issues and gaps in legal processes: Iman Muttaqin Yusof, SCMP, Malaysian religious authorities probe viral claim of woman having ‘2...
Pakistan Social Media Issues
"Pakistan on Thursday urged major social media platforms to crack down on accounts linked to militant groups, warning that failure to act could lead to stricter government measures or...
Chatbots and Faith
Simon Kuper, Financial Times, Who needs a priest when you have a chatbot?, 11 Dec 2025. “As technology acquires quasi-religious qualities, traditional faiths could be moving in a more...
Egypt, AI and ‘fake news‘
"Egypt's government has unveiled a new artificial intelligence-based platform to verify the accuracy of news and identify what officials describe as “false or misleading” reports concerning the state, society...
Digital Islam Across Europe Reports
Two reports from the Digital Islam Across Europe project (I’m a Co-I on it): Digital Islam Across Europe: Sweden Team Göran Larsson & Erika Willander Swedish Muslim Media Consumption:...
Indonesia and ‘digital freedom‘
Resty Woro Yuniar, SCMP, Jakarta vs the internet: Indonesia’s gamble with digital freedom, 6 Dec 2025 opinion/analyses “What happens when a democracy begins to fear its own internet? In Indonesia,...