On Thursday morning, heavily armed attackers, believed to be members of al-Shabaab, invaded Garissa University and killed 147 students. Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabaab official,… Read More »Paying Attention to Garissa
This morning, I’m at the Ford Foundation in New York City as part of the launch event for NetGain. NetGain is a new effort launched… Read More »Helping Launch the NetGain Challenge
This has been an ugly week. On Wednesday, two Islamic extremists assassinated 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The next day,… Read More »Honor every death: Paying attention to terror in Baga, Nigeria as well as Paris
This January, a few hundred employees of Alibaba, the massive online retailer and digital payments company, participated in an interesting experiment. Like many Chinese, they… Read More »Water monitoring in China, and the changing role of citizenship
Susan Benesch is one of the leading thinkers on countering hate speech online. She’s a fellow at the Berkman Center this year, and I’m terribly… Read More »Susan Benesch on dangerous speech and counterspeech
It’s hard to explain just how much Myanmar has changed. It’s at least as hard to know whether to believe in all the changes Myanmar… Read More »Myanmar, no longer closed, still complicated