Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week –
- Perils of Preaching Nationalism Play Out on Chinese Social Media (The New York Times)
- UK Parliament closes TikTok account after China data warning (BBC News)
- Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry (MIT Technology Review)
- VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence (MIT Technology Review)
- A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is? (The New York Times)
- EU moves to beat the algorithms that ruin lives (The Guardian)
- State Department Prepares New Focus on Cyber Diplomacy (Voice of America)
- You now have two days to delete that embarrassing WhatsApp message (The Verge)
- Lessons Ukrainians learned from cold calling the enemy (CyberNews)
Some light reading- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan