January, 2014

Stories from January, 2014

Monitoring the Russian Internet for Big Bucks

  14 January 2014

The Russian Federal Protective Service is asking software developers to design a system that automatically monitors the country’s news and social media, producing reports that study netizens’ political attitudes.

On Alaa, Learning, and the Struggle

  9 January 2014

"These friendships come in fragments, but they are sometimes the best we have." Reflections from Jillian York on friend and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, currently in prison in Egypt.