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Grooming is social, not technological. And because it is decidedly low-tech, anybody looking for a high-tech fix for it is going in the wrong direction. No algorithm, no matter how good, is going to ...

Tech and the internet continue to facilitate harm in my life.

So much for the party of change. Keir Starmer used his first Labour Party Conference in power last month to make clear that ...

Exploitation and abuse long predate the internet, as do bullying, harassment and doxxing. But the internet and, increasingly, ...

The Civil Service is already overstaffed and hiring people to monitor and record all gifts and favours given to senior ...

As I walk through the streets of Rafah today, all I see is fear. The fear of life and the fear of death. We are living in ...

A year on and no end in sight to genocide – thanks to US support for Israel, which will continue beyond election ...

Labour peer and donor Lord Alli is under investigation by the parliamentary watchdog after openDemocracy revealed that he ...

As Labour donations scandal deepens, openDemocracy readers debate an overhaul of political system to ban donations ...

The European Union has given more than a million euros to a charity that peddles anti-abortion misinformation and whose founder compared reproductive rights to the Holocaust, an investigation by ...