To traditionalist dismay, it seems onsite assessment centres and physical face-to-face Interviews will be more difficult to organise in a more digital post-Covid-19 environment. …

An introduction to Political astroturfing and its devastating effects on diverse and divided political environments in particular. A 5-minuter from Wonk Bridge Dear Reader, At Wonk Bridge, among our broader ambitions is a fuller understanding of our “Network Society”[1]. In today’s article, we’re aiming to connect several important nodes in…

In the densely-packed digital city that is the Internet, social networks act as open-spaces — like town-squares and public-houses of old — where its citizens can freely and openly interact and exchange opinions. Not incidentally, much of the social networking lexicon derives from physical meeting place names: “forum”, “Plaza/Place” or…

What Google’s whistleblowers and walk-outs have revealed about working in a politicised information duopoly. How we cannot expect neutrality even in tackling COVID-19. 7:30am in the lobby of an independent news agency, a man of scruffy bearing and sweaty palms keeps looking anxiously at his wristwatch. …

Our Plague of Athens will mark a turning-point in global politics It’s the End of the World As We Blog It, and we feel fine. Yet as we join millions of observers from our monitors at home, our concern grows for the billions who will suffer the consequences unleashed by…

Rather, how the pretentious curators of the Basel and Frieze galleries are left with no choice but to pick from pop culture’s memetic buffet Art about bananas. Art is going bananas. Art has gone bananas. Oh what a familiar refrain — “art is no longer valued for its aesthetic value…

Or how encrypted communication tools have opened a second front to the War between Authoritarian regimes and their political dissidents. Jackson’s Policy Corner — a Wonk Bridge series on tech, defence and policy with resident cyber policy analyst Jackson Webster Ten years ago, this exact story would be one about…

Or how Facebook now stands reluctant to assume the editorial responsibility of editorialists bygone. In the second interview with cyber and tech policy analyst Jackson Webster and co-Founder Yuji Develle began with a little game. First, list the top 10 things you can do with your smartphone today: Text or…

Jackson’s Policy Corner —a Wonk Bridge series on tech, defence and policy with resident cyber policy analyst Jackson Webster If you’ve been paying attention to politicians lately (and I will excuse you if you hadn’t by sheer exasperation), you would have probably heard about regulating American Big Tech. After all…