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. Researchers warn of rise in extremism online after Covid (BBC News)
2. The Illusion of Controls (Foreign Affairs)
3. UK spy agency had to ‘pre-bunk’ Russian propaganda over Ukraine war, GCHQ boss says (The Independent)
4. Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever (Wired)
5. How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis (The New York Times)
6. The Internet Is Kmart Now (The Atlantic)
7. What’s next for the chip industry (MIT Technology Review)
8. Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration? (The Guardian)
9. SpaceX Valued at $137 Billion in Latest Funding Round, CNBC Says (Bloomberg)

Some light reading – Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger