AI isn’t making you smarter. It might be doing the...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français It’s 11pm in Yaoundé. Brice, a computer science student, opens ChatGPT to finish a homework assignment he could have written himself. A few minutes...
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« I’ve got nothing to hide » — and why that argument...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Here we are, fifth episode of this series. We’ve mapped out the companies collecting and reselling your data, the states surveilling you, the criminals...
Learn first, automate later: Norway bets on keeping AI out...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Norway has sent a clear message to the rest of the world: come fall, generative AI won’t be welcome as a free-use tool in...
SIM swap, sextortion, fake officials: meet Cameroon’s data predators 🚨🇨🇲
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The first three episodes of this series described structured actors: companies following a business model, governments exercising legal — if contested — authority. This...
RTL9, Trace Africa, and the channels that raised a generation...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Before YouTube, TikTok, and Netflix took over Cameroonian living rooms, an entire generation grew up glued to a cathode-ray screen. Between 2000 and 2012,...
How a denied visa turned a Cameroonian wedding into a...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français A Cameroonian couple made headlines last May when they chose to tie the knot in a ceremony broadcast live to viewers around the world....
Internet shutdowns, facial recognition, state debt: Africa’s surveillance boom 🎥
Cliquez ici pour lire en français In the first two episodes of this series, we mapped a system. Your smartphone continuously generates data that companies monetize, that brokers resell, and...
Child influencers in Cameroon: how algorithms are turning kids into...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Gloria, Maxime la Vitesse… These names are now familiar to many Cameroonians. Behind their viral videos, thousands of followers, and brand collaborations lies a...
The Natasha Doll controversy: how algorithms turned racism into a...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On Douyin and RedNote — China’s two dominant short-video platforms, with a combined user base of over 760 million — a new controversy is...
The friends you thought you’d lost are probably one search...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn… These platforms are no longer just places to share content or scroll through the news. For millions of users, they’ve quietly...