Social media and e-commerce giants are influencing what we buy, how we vote and who we love. Now the war in Ukraine threatens to splinter the global internet further and militarise surveillance like never before. What does this mean for the most basic of human rights: the freedom to think?
Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?
Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?
