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Combatting online violence: Will the new EU law make tech platforms a safer place?

As online violence targeting women continues to rise, artificial intelligence is set to take trolling to a whole new level. So will the European Union's new Digital Services Act make tech platforms a safe place for women? Annette Young talks to Asha Allen from the Centre for Democracy and Technology.…

France 24

What Fox learned from Tucker Carlson

"But it's not clear that Fox will abandon its business model of feeding on division and extremism"

Salon

What the Global South thinks of the Ukraine war

There is a deep and growing rift between "the West" and "the Rest" about the need to resist and defeat the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is because it is really a war in defence of sovereignty, which ought to be something every sovereign country can buy into -- but…

Bangkok Post

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King Charles's coronation: How the place of Britain and the Crown has shifted in Canadian schooling

John Geiger, the chief executive officer of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, says the coronation of King Charles is “a unique opportunity to enhance Canadians’ knowledge and understanding of the Crown in Canada and our system of parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy.”

The Conversation

Tory backlash at 'outrageous' decision to invite Chinese official to King's Coronation

Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping's deputy, will represent China at King Charles's Coronation on May 6 - provoking anger from top Tories over his role in a crackdown of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

Daily Mirror

Sharlet: "After Trump comes others"

"It's worse post-Trump than it was during Trump's presidency"

Salon

Montana Republicans bar transgender lawmaker from the statehouse floor

Zooey Zephyr will be able to vote remotely, however the decision has drawn protests that brought the legislature to a halt

The Guardian - US

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The challenge of reviving a sense of fraternity

In democratic India, a sense of fraternity as an essential virtue is unavoidable

The Hindu

South Africans are fed up with their prospects, and their democracy, according to latest social attitudes survey

The mood among South Africans has soured. The latest findings from the representative survey that’s done every year by the country’s Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) shows some disturbing new trends.

The Conversation

OPINION - Wake up! Voter ID really is the biggest attack on our democracy for decades

When we think of attacks on democracy, we think of dramatic moments like military coups, but the reality can be more boring, but just as dangerous — like voter suppression. Which is happening here in the UK.

Evening Standard

GOP tries to block abortion from ballots

"GOP lawmakers pushing these efforts want 41% of voters to block ballot initiatives that 59% of voters support"

Salon

Lord Frost: Brexit has revived British politics and is healing democracy

Former chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said leaving the EU had brought politics ‘back to life’

The Independent UK

Voter ID will make voting harder for Black and minority ethnic people, Labour MP says

Labour’s Clive Lewis, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on race, said Voter ID 'undermines the very cornerstone of our democracy' - and urged the Government 'to address the issue of political exclusion'

Daily Mirror

Twitter's muddled blue checkpocalypse

Elon Musk's concept of democracy is forcing unwanted blue checks on random celebs, Muppets and dead folks

Salon

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Radio France Internationale

Guinea-Bissau, first non-European country to sign environmental democracy treaty

Guinea-Bissau has become the first country outside Europe to join an international agreement on environmental democracy that holds governments accountable for environmental and human rights.

Salon

Joe Biden announces 2024 reelection bid

"This is our moment" to stand up to defend the nation and the values it claims to value, Biden says

Chicago Sun-Times

President Biden announces 2024 reelection bid

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is a co-chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign.

The National (Scotland)

Handling of Section 35 challenge could be 'watershed' moment for Scottish devolution

Legal experts said that they hoped judges presiding over the case would be “alive to the dangers to Scottish democracy” when reaching their…

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Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch face another giant legal claim over Fox News 'disinformation'

The lawyer representing voting technology company, Smartmatic, says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are key to the $US2.7 billion case they have brought against Fox News and Fox Corporation.

The National (Scotland)

Leading German news outlet says UK's democracy is 'rotting away' in scathing article

A LEADING German news magazine has said that “the foundation of Britannia’s democracy is literally rotting away” in a scathing article on the…

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP criticised for Kazakhstan-funded £5k trip to observe elections

Human rights groups raise concerns after UK trade envoy Daniel Kawczynski praised the country’s ‘functioning democracy’

The Independent UK

Guatemala leader in Taiwan expresses 'rock-solid friendship'

The president of Guatemala has appealed to other governments to respect Taiwan’s sovereignty during an official visit at a time when China’s ruling Communist Party is stepping up efforts to isolate the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on India at a crossroads: development, not dictatorship

Editorial: Hindu nationalism in India is writing an epitaph for the country’s experiment with multi-ethnic secular democracy

Nottingham Post

Outgoing Nottingham councillor says Hassan Ahmed expulsion is 'attack on democracy'

A Labour source previously said Hassan Ahmed was thrown out of the party "following proper consideration of evidence"

The Hindu

A hung Assembly will again become an advantage to the BJP, says CPI

Communist Party of India (CPI) State Committee secretary Siddanagouda Patil has said that it is imperative to defeat the BJP in this Assembly elections in every realm to safeguard democracy. Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Monday, Mr. Patil appealed to people not to vote for the BJP and…

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