Eastern Europe

Facing sanctions, conscription, and internet restrictions, Russian tech workers are fleeing the country.

“If Ukraine becomes unavailable, there will be visible effects on the global IT industry.”

From college sophomores to 9-to-5 IT workers, hobbyist OSINT accounts are reconstructing events on the ground.

Ukraine has led a public campaign, mostly through social media, appealing powerful tech institutions to end relationships with Russia.

From an Airbnb for displaced people to a volunteer cyber army, Ukrainian technologists have joined the war effort.

Ukraine’s massive pool of tech talent and its proximity to European and Asian capitals made it an attraction for startups and established tech companies.

Cybersecurity experts fear that the conflict could hit critical infrastructure in the country and spill over into other countries.

Documentación revela cómo empresas de lavado de reputación, como Eliminalia, usan amenazas legales y avisos de derechos para eliminar contenido en todo el mundo.

Reputation firms like Eliminalia use legal threats and copyright notices to have material taken down around the world.

The government has taken no action, and with elections approaching, Russia stands to directly influence the country’s political direction for its own benefit.

Faced with fragility and uncertainty, gig workers are connecting across borders to challenge platforms’ power and policies.

The most successful global tech bets aren’t flashy unicorns; they’re efficient and practical startups.

After winning power with an unorthodox social media campaign, President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to transform the state’s relationship with citizens through technology.

The advertisements promoted confession tapes released by government authorities of detained activist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.

New social media platforms in Poland and Hungary are appealing to the far right.

The Ukrainian photojournalist on how she has navigated the fine line between documentarian and citizen in her country’s conflict.

There’s more than one way to break the internet.

Between “pay with your face” programs in supermarkets and facial recognition cameras in the metro, Russians are adjusting to a new reality.

Facing a dire shortage of qualified tech workers, companies and the Kremlin are vying to win the hearts and minds of Russia’s entrepreneurs and engineers.

With television networks full of government propaganda, YouTube is a vital platform for debate. But will the freedom last?

Volodymyr Usov made up for his total lack of experience — at least partly — with a boyish zeal for space.

Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences.

The first wave of the pandemic proved to be too much for Debunk EU, a Lithuanian organization that specializes in exposing conspiracy theories exported from Russia.

Wildberries, the country’s answer to Amazon, is a genuine success. But its corporate backstory involves a lot of mythmaking.

Telegram was designed to help pro-democracy activists, but lax content rules have made it a go-to platform for extremists.

As war continues between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, both countries are using the internet to escalate the fighting — and chalk up their wins.

As troves of KGB documents become declassified, former Soviet nations are grappling with their not-so-distant pasts.

Silk Road is dead. Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs: fully decentralized, pay-by-crypto, and end-to-end encrypted bazaars.

A mini-media empire run by a 22-year-old university student has become the epicenter of Belarus’ protest movement.

These next-generation emo-bots will make you want to try.

How a Latin American meme was weaponized by Russian propaganda against the Estonian president

With in-person protest now impossible, Russians have taken to popular navigation apps to register dissent, outfoxing authorities in the process.