Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Elon Musk Wants Proof $6 Billion Can Solve World Hunger (Bloomberg)
- Instagram faces investigation over its impact on teens (Cnet)
- Two Iranians charged with spreading election disinformation, threatening people to vote for Trump (CNBC)
- US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnect’s ‘number one promoter’ (The Verge)
- UK and US join forces to strike back in cyber-space (BBC)
- Technology is transforming global treaties (TechCrunch)
- Technology will not solve the problem of climate change (The Financial Times)
- China has no plans to replace foreign technology, says foreign ministry (Reuters)
- Poland-Belarus: How social media posts fuelled the migrant crisis (BBC)
Some light reading- I, Claudius, by Robert Graves