Many in Iran are gaining brief and unexplained windows of online connectivity, offering a widening glimpse of the extent of the government crackdown. By Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi For more than ...

Iranians are living through one of the longest Internet shutdowns in history, with the authorities imposing a digital blackout since launching a bloody crackdown on antiestablishment protesters on ...

Iranian authorities have implemented a near-total shutdown of the internet in a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests, but a sliver of the population is keeping in touch with the outside ...

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Vladimir Lenin is said to have warned that all societies are three square meals from chaos. But in the modern world, it is only a Wi-Fi signal that separates us from anarchy. Every aspect of our lives ...

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About three years ago, writer Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe a widely observed yet hazily defined phenomenon: the general worsening of online platforms in recent years.