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1 month ago | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
In this Q&A, Manasa Narayanan speaks to Petra Molnar about the UK's push for unchecked AI ‘innovation’ and what it means for the existing surveillance state and migrants. At the Paris AI Summit earlier this month, the UK and US refused to sign the “inclusive and sustainable” AI declaration. Perhaps Starmer felt it was important to appease Trump and US tech companies as trade deals are under negotiation.
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1 month ago | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
Director Asif Kapadia on the challenges of getting 2073 made and released. Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia in conversation with our journalist Manasa Narayanan, discussing his new feature documentary 2073. Inpart one of this conversation, published yesterday, Asif spoke about what motivated him to make this film. In part two, he talks about the difficulties of making and releasing this film, and how he has found hope through the screenings.
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1 month ago | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
An interview with Director Asif Kapadia whose film 2073 could be set in 2025The Citizens’ journalist Manasa Narayanan sat down with Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia to discuss his new feature documentary 2073.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
We are now subjects of an unaccountable technocapitalist order rather than citizens in a democracy, write Manasa Narayanan and Sabrina Provenzani. This article was originally published in the February 2025 print edition of the Byline Times. Sergei And The Westminster Spy Ring is a cautionary tale about the fragility of liberal democracy. Perhaps its most powerful warning is of the weaknesses at the heart of our political institutions that have left Britain vulnerable to manipulation.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Sabrina Provenzani
Disinformation and counterterrorism expert Martin Innes unveils the inner workings of Russian influence operations and their connection to the Brexit campaign. 💡 We are on a knife-edge. Since Trump got re-elected, there is a chilling effect. It is sweeping right across those of us who stand in opposition to Big Tech’s takeover of politics. It is happening quickly and it is serious.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
Toxic male spaces that thrive on hating women are springing up; what does this mean for politics and women online? Plus a bonus story about a nonprofit tackling online harassment of girls through education. There is an emerging gender divide. From the US and UK to South Korea, young men and women are diverging in their political attitudes; with young men becoming more Conservative and women more Liberal.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Sabrina Provenzani
Social media has become a tool for disinformation, online violence, abuse, and the degradation of public discourse. As we approach an election that should be shaped by facts and informed opinions, it feels impossible to trust what we read or watch. We are just days away from one of the most consequential U.S. Presidential elections in recent history, which will have profound consequences not only for Americans but also for the world.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
A whole industry of romance AI apps are marketing themselves as something they are not. “Active listener, empathy, a friend you can trust”: that’s how you get introduced to Romantic AI, a chatbot run by a Finnish company. The app goes on to say it “is here to maintain your MENTAL HEALTH.” Mental health ⸺ all in caps. Visit the company’s website, you’ll find it trying to lure users with extremely sexualised AI characters. Get on the app itself, it looks like a porn site.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
Students from Pro-Palestine camps across the UK tell us how they are using technology to mobilise and protest against the war on Gaza. Across the country, students have been setting up pro-Palestine encampments to protest against the war on Gaza, demanding that universities are transparent about their investments and that they divest from companies that have involvement in, or enable Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
the-citizens.com | Manasa Narayanan |Sabrina Provenzani
The Citizens’ Manasa Narayanan travelled to UK universities to learn how students in pro-Palestine camps are making use of social media: amidst media mistrust, censorship, far-right harassment and university crackdown. Yesterday, The London School of Economics, armed with a court order, forced its students out of the pro-Palestine encampment; the first British university to do so. Queen Mary and Birmingham are following suit.
