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Commissioner Diogo Thomson considered that the insertion of generative AI has “significantly altered the dynamics of access, visibility, and monetization of journalistic content in the digital environment.”

...[T]he promise of a digital future may come at the same heavy cost to human rights and environmental justice as the floral exports that preceded it.

Coordinated false copyright claims targeted Bangladeshi archivists, journalists, and activists, exploiting Meta’s reporting system to remove evidence of abuses, disrupt documentation efforts, and undermine accountability linked to July 2024 uprising.

An Ethiopian creator who built her audience in Afan Oromo died by suicide on April 29. Her farewell post and video remain on Facebook today. Platforms missed every signal

While African capitals announce their national AI strategies and tech giants launch their “innovation hubs” across the continent, millions of households are still living without reliable electricity.

The core of the human rights approach to AI should aim at rebalancing the power among the corporate-state, the machine and the people through a decision-making framework.

Overall, while the surveillance, abuses and huge concentrations and imbalances of power that AI and other new technologies enable are very worrying, we found a good deal of encouragement in these case studies.

We have to insist that AI is still unsettled, still open to being shaped otherwise, and that the language and vocabulary it comes with, is not something we just accept.

Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic bias and digital colonialism

More than simply a uniform adoption of artificial intelligence, a technological innovation has emerged that is transforming the battlefield, decision-making processes, local narratives, and forms of social control.

"Sportellino," a multilingual chatbot designed for migrants, is currently leading the way at the national level by setting a good example. Recently, the Italian government also launched similar tools.

India’s recent AI Impact Summit highlighted the Indian government’s ambitions and economic promise, yet critics warned that surveillance and facial recognition restrict civic space, hamper human rights, and harm marginal communities.

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.

Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.

The relationship between governments and digital platforms is never simple. Governments can introduce regulations, but digital platforms also possess enormous power through the technologies, algorithms, and global information infrastructure they control.

On paper, many of these technologies are described as civilian. In practice, the line between civilian and military use is almost always blurred, particularly in authoritarian contexts and conflict zones.

When AI-generated harassment is treated as “engaging content,” it gets amplified, and women, especially women from the Global majority, become collateral damage.

Africa Wiki Women encourages African women’s advancement in online knowledge creation and sharing through training, contribution campaigns, and mentorship programs.

"What is at stake in Botswana media is not only law reforms but the viability of journalism in a disrupted, underfunded and rapidly changing environment."