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Zeynep Tufekci

A group of people leave flowers outside a building with signs table to a column that say "#turntolove" and "#love will win terror will lose"

New Zealand shooting video was ‘made to make us watch it.’ This professor says don’t.

The shooter who killed 49 in New Zealand broadcast 17 minutes of his attack on Facebook. Watching and sharing videos like this inspire future killers and is disrespectful to victims, says a technology professor.

Could all the attention to #BringBackOurGirls backfire and empower Boko Haram?

Conflict & Justice
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
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