Online child safety, data breaches, pro-Palestine content censorship: DRM Highlights 2023 (Global Edition)
As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on the events that dominated headlines in DRM’s top slots throughout the...
Usman Shahid is Manager at Digital Rights Monitor (DRM) under the Digital Rights & Internet Governance (DRIG) programme at Media Matters for Democracy (MMfD). He is also co-leading Facter, a digital investigation initiative facilitating newsrooms in countering mis/disinformation.
Usman formerly worked as the head of Culture desk at SAMAA TV (Digital). He is also a DRAPAC23 fellow.
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As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on the events that dominated headlines in DRM’s top slots throughout the...
As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on the events that dominated headlines in DRM’s top slots throughout the...
A visibly illicit website, offering personal information of mobile subscribers and CNIC holders in Pakistan, was found advertised on a...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was aware of the harassment children faced on its social media platforms,...
WhatsApp’s AI feature, which produces stickers in chats, shows images of children holding guns in response to prompts including “Palestine”,...
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