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Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars as he watches a display during the MAKS 2017 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.

How Putin learned to stop worrying and love internet espionage

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A decade ago, Vladimir Putin appeared to be ignoring the internet. Now he seems to be wildly successful at exploiting it.

A police officer carries bouquets of flowers on Whitehall the morning after an attack in London.

How alone are ‘lone wolf’ jihadi attackers?

Conflict
Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum was the focus of a Russian smear campaign.

What it’s like to be the victim of a Russian online smear campaign

Global Politics
The ISIS flag next to symbols of Twitter and Facebook

How ISIS recruits online — using encryption, chat rooms and even dating sites

Conflict
Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor teamed up with a sociologist from New York University, Eric Klinenberg to take the pulse of global romance in the early 21st century.

Strangers around the world gave Aziz Ansari the most intimate details of their romantic lives — their text messages

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Internet cafes bustle in Ankara, where Turkey's parliament approved a crackdown on online access.

‘What is at stake is the right of Turkish citizens to speak freely’

Global Politics

Turkey is one of the most wired societies in Europe. But Turkey’s government is cracking down on online activities. Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says new legislation will block online access and require Internet providers to store data on web users’ activities.

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