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Is Facebook a danger to democracy? Published on Share Billions of us use social media – but how much control do we have over how it uses us? Big tech giant Facebook could block news content for its users in Australia without asking anyone. Authoritarian regimes use social media to promote their sometimes violent policies. Has the information sharing we once thought so liberating become a danger to democracy and to human rights? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes explores these questions with Shalini Randeria of Geneva’s Graduate Institute, Scott Campbell...

Just ten years ago we were celebrating social media as a liberating force during the Arab spring. Now we're seeing the spread of online hate speech.

Billions of us use social media – but how much control do we have over how it uses us?

Are nuclear weapons really banned? In January nuclear weapons were banned by international treaty. But the treaty doesn’t apply to any of the nuclear powers, since none of them signed it. So are nukes really banned? This content was published on February 23, 2021 - 10:00 February 23, 2021 - 10:00 Imogen Foulkes In this episode, Imogen Foulkes talks to Cordula Droege of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, and Elaine Whyte Gomez, the ambassador from Costa Rica, who steered the treaty through the United Nations. Ext...

Covid review: not all our predictions were wrong Published on Share One year into the pandemic, we still have so many questions. Here in Geneva, we can put those questions to world leaders in public health. When can we get vaccinated? When can we meet friends again? When, oh when, will this virus give up? It’s been interesting, reporting on Covid-19 over the last 12 months, to re-assess some of their answers one year on. In this week’s episode of our podcast, Inside Geneva, I take a look back at interviews conducted almost exactly a year ago with the WHO�...