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COMMENT is the Centre for Communication Rights’ take on the rapidly changing world of communications and social media.

Holding video streaming services to account

Holding video streaming services to account

In 2001, Jack G. Shaheen published Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. In an analysis of over 900 films with Arab and Muslim characters from 1896 to 2000, he showed how moviemakers represented Arabs as heartless, uncivilized, religious fanatics akin to...

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The Global Digital Compact: A step in the right direction

The Global Digital Compact: A step in the right direction

In one part of the world, in Nairobi, Kenya, street vendors are doing booming business with “art” generated by artificial intelligence whose pricing matches or is even higher than real art. What constitutes “art” may be in the eyes of the beholder, but it seems no...

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Summit of a Future for All?

Summit of a Future for All?

“Summit of the Future” sounds a bit like an Avengers movie. It is in fact a much-anticipated (and much-hyped) United Nations event on 22–23 September that aims to address the critical issues that are increasingly transforming lives – issues such as climate change,...

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