Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. The biggest technology failures of 2020 (MIT Technology Review)
2. Misinformation dropped dramatically a week after Twitter bans Trump and some allies (The Washington Post)
3. Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign (The New York Times)
4. Facial recognition: Don’t use it to snoop on how staff are feeling, says watchdog (ZDNet)
5. Pandemic has shown us the good and bad of technology (Sydney Morning Herald)
6. The tyranny of passwords – is it time for a rethink? (The Guardian)
7. China launches new satellite for communications and technology tests (Space.com)
8. Israel Plans Massive Drone Delivery Test – With Hundreds of Flights a Day (Haaretz Newspaper)
9. AI drives the evolution of technology and data governance (ZDnet)
10. Seven technologies to watch in 2021 (Nature)

Some Light Reading: The Proper Study of Mankind, Isiah Berlin