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. Google, Meta and Amazon are on track to absorb more than 50% of all ad money in 2022 (DIGIDay)
2. Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem (The Atlantic)
3. Seven ways to protect your child’s privacy online (Oxford Internet Institute)
4. A Scary Demonstration of What Unchecked Face Recognition Could Look Like (ACLU)
5. Cryptocurrency Is Funding Ukraine’s Defense—and Its Hacktivists (Wired)
6. Record-high seizure of $4bn in stolen Bitcoin (BBC News)
7. NFT marketplace suspends most sales, citing ‘rampant’ fakes and plagiarism (CNN News)
8. Big Changes in Uber and Lyft (The Verge)
9. The Technology That’s Helping Companies Thrive Amid the Supply-Chain Chaos (Wall Street Journal)

Some light reading- Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov