2023-04-07
For my first article for @techreview I dive into what went wrong with the tech industry in Russia after the war. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me! https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
MIT Technology Review
A look at how invading Ukraine supercharged the decline of Russia's struggling tech sector, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation
2023-04-06
For my first article for @techreview I dive into what went wrong with the tech industry in Russia after the war. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me! https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
MIT Technology Review
A look at Russia's tech industry decline, accelerated by the country's war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease … Tweets: @mashaborak , @phuenermund , and @eileenguo Tweet...
2023-02-07
In my latest for @WIRED, I look at how Moscow's smart city surveillance project turned into a tool to hunt down critics of the govt. Today, even the engineers who built it say they regret their role in it. This is a story about how things go wrong. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
A look at Moscow's Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression
Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Tweets: @glichfield , @iethics , and @mashaborak Tweets: ...
2022-11-03
“It's like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own society,” My story on the Uyghur internet is finally online: https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wired
Tech insiders and academics say most independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist as Beijing's crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region unfolded
a future for their own society.” https://www.wired.com/... Masha Borak / @mashaborak : “It's like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a fu...
2022-10-18
Wikipedia has seemingly escaped the fate of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter which have struggled with fake news, disinformation, and bots. Here's how a disinfo campaign might look like on one of the world's most popular sites https://www.wired.com/... via @wired
Wired
New research, which details pro-Kremlin edits made to the English Wikipedia page for the Russo-Ukrainian war, could be used to create models to detect disinfo
Masha Borak / Wired :
2020-02-19
7 years in prison for VPN is a lot even compared to China. Cannot help think of the internet blackout in Xinjiang in 2009 including the accusations that social media is used to propagate secessionism https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
India opens cases against hundreds of VPN users in Kashmir; those found guilty of promoting “unlawful activities and secessionist ideology” face up to 7 years
with potentially 7 years in jail https://techcrunch.com/...