Kourosh Ziabari

1 day ago | unherd.com | Kourosh Ziabari

CensorshipFree SpeechIranislamic republicJournalismrestofworldSociety Over 30 years ago, in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, Seyed Hossein Ziabari decided to launch a magazine. Called Hatef, the Arabic and Persian for “Voice”, it was a journal of culture and society, focused especially on the endangered Gilaki language spoken in this rainy, lush valley by the Caspian.

3 weeks ago | tacno.net | Kourosh Ziabari

Foto: PexelsMnogo prije nego što je Elon Musk preuzeo Twitter za nenadmašnu pomoć od 44 milijarde dolara samo da bi ga preimenovao u X, govor mržnje bacio je zloslutnu sjenu na društveni medijski prostor na perzijskom jeziku. Otpuštanjem futurističkog magneta polovice moderatora sadržaja kompanije, 80 posto inženjera u odjelu za povjerenje i sigurnost i gotovo cijelog Ethical AI tima, otvorili su se kapije uvredljivog jezika koje koriste korisnici koji objavljuju poruke na perzijskom.

1 month ago | ips-journal.eu | Kourosh Ziabari

Long before Elon Musk took over Twitter for an unbeatable handout of $44 billion only to rename it to X, hate speech had cast an ominous shadow on the Persian-language social media space. With the futuristic magnet’s dismissal of half of the company’s , 80 per cent of the engineers in the trust and safety department and almost the whole Ethical AI team, the floodgates of abusive language employed by users posting in Persian were opened.

1 month ago | theamericanconservative.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Foreign Affairs What Have the Iran Sanctions Achieved? Forty-six years of aggressive economic punishment have, perversely, only entrenched the ayatollahs. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Sanctions on Iran were first rolled out soon after the suspension of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington on the heels of the 1979 hostage crisis.

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Foreign Affairs California Fires Stoke Divisions Among Iranian-Americans In the “little Iran” of Los Angeles, reactions to the disaster highlighted discord. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The destruction wrought by the Southern California wildfires elicited mixed reactions from Iran, where Western cliches about a monolithic theocratic elite rarely survive scrutiny.