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HISTORICAL FACTS: 9 - The Untold Story

Cracking the code to cut back misinformation

Balancing freedom of expression with targeting misinformation is an ongoing challenge, the approaches to tackle it highly variable.

Journalists step in where platforms have no answers

Google and Facebook are hoping to improve their news algorithms to provide a more balanced view. Media industry initiatives could have the solution they need.

Defunding the disinformation money machine

Disinformation is a profitable business, and one of the most effective ways to slow its spread is to take away the advertising money unwittingly funding it.

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Misinformation won’t go away, but media literacy can help fight it

Misinformation won’t disappear, but teaching the community to spot it can strip the falsehoods of their power.

Indonesia’s misinformation program undermines more than it teaches

Indonesia’s government has funded a thorough media literacy program. But rather than stopping misinformation, it may serve to undermine independent thought.

Ubiquitous and mysterious, algorithms are ruling our lives

Algorithms hugely impact our consumption of news, media and much more but very little is known about how they do it.

India’s tangled web of misinformation lies

A mysterious app, a viral hoax and political rivals engaging in misinformation mudslinging — India is in the grips of a fake news epidemic.

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Gates, Fauci and the NWO: inside Australia’s far-right silos

Misinformation has found a home with conspiracy theorists, some exploiting political divisions and others convinced of its truth.

Best of Interactives 2022

A look back at some of our most popular data-driven stories of 2022.

Special Report: Cities after colonialism

Cities in former colonies are now among the biggest and fastest-growing in the world and need to be prepared for unpredictable futures.

Sex workers and the city: The fight for rights

Organisation and solidarity are critical to ensuring the rights of sex-workers.

How not to build a tourism city

Despite its aesthetic appeal, the Iranian resort Majara is poised to be a sore point among local residents.

A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

How migrant entrepreneurs find their way in South Africa

The pros and cons of the informal economy and how migrant business spaces are initiated and expanded.

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Kolkata's domestic workers left insecure

Cities cannot function without domestic workers in India but their employment conditions remain precarious.

Bland warehouses hide the heart of a city

What makes cities work? It is not the historic monuments or grand architecture but something far more prosaic.

Black days ahead if coal city does not change

Unsafe and disaster-prone, extractive towns are still attractive to migrant workers.

Searching for an Asian alternative to the colonial city

Cities in South and Southeast Asia share many characteristics and can learn from each other’s history, development trajectories and experiences.

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Indonesia’s capital move mirrors the Dutch

Leaving behind the troubled capital city is not a new development in Indonesia’s history.

Town planners sidelined in Dhaka's development

Depoliticised planning in Dhaka has meant a shift away from professional planners and public concerns.

Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

How riots formed Kolkata's ghettos

Communal violence has led to clear territorial demarcation of space, access, and resources, marking the everyday experience of minority citizenship in Kolkata.

Six charts to explain rights of nature

Maps and charts showing the progress of laws to protect rights of nature show that countries are taking different approaches to saving ecosystems.

The need for better protection of Malaysia’s forests

Learning from past experience, the government moves to fortify existing legislation to prevent exploitation and destruction of rainforests.

Rights of nature

The idea that nature — forests , rivers, mountains — could have rights, in the same way that human rights, or corporate rights exist has been building momentum.

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