Features

Few can resist the tech titans. Prabir Purkayastha tells the story of Indians who went into battle against Facebook, for freedom – and won.

Research psychologist Robert Epstein on how the new technologies invisibly shape public opinion – and what we must do about it.

Everybody wants your private data. Bruce Schneier on how surveillance has become the business model of the internet.

This month's fact spread presents details about the internet and the corporate giants who monopolize it.

Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.

How new trade deals – and Investor-State Dispute Settlements in particular – are giving more power to companies to sue countries for lost profits.

Roxana Olivera meets indigenous women in Peru who are still waiting for justice, two decades after being forcibly sterilized.

Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.

Elizabeth Katta talks about the lingering impacts of teenage pregnancy, which spiked during Ebola.

Gangsters turned mobilizers, the Tripoli Boys kicked Ebola out of their neighbourhood. Amjata Bayoh and Mohamed S Camara find out what happened next.

Bankolay Turay’s story of student romance on ice.

Mamie Lebbi, the first woman to test positive for Ebola, describes how she survived in the bush with her husband’s help.

Mariama B Jalloh’s quest to find her father’s grave.

Statistics and more on the spread of the virus through West Africa.

And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

Rahila Gupta meets women fighters in Rojava who are leading the charge towards a radical democracy.

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.