Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week I have curated a list of the most important digital news of 2021.
Happy Holidays!
- Leveraging digital technology during the pandemic (Brookings)
- The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online (The New York Times)
- Tokyo 2020: TikTok becomes the unofficial behind-the-scenes Olympic channel (BBC News)
- Facebook Will Not Fix Itself (Time Magazine)
- Danish White Paper: Towards a better social contract with big tech (Danish MFA)
- AUKUS essentially a ‘defence industry and technology information sharing arrangement’ (Sky News)
- Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago (The Atlantic)
- AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on (MIT Technology Review)
- ‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology (The Guardian)
- Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software (CNN)
Some light Christmas reading- The Night Before Christmas, by The Night Before Christmas
