Amin Naeni, an expert on digital authoritarianism, tracks how Iran built the capability to shutdown the internet. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Many in Iran are gaining brief and unexplained windows of online connectivity, offering a widening glimpse of the extent of ...

There’s an ongoing, near-total blackout of the internet in Iran. The shutdown is part of a response by the government to ongoing protests against rising inflation and the value of the nation’s ...

The near-total ban on outside communication has left Starlink as the only choice for many in the country to go online.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranians are seen protesting and blocking roads across Iran, on January 8, 2025 (photo credit: SOCIAL MEDIA/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE ...

KAMPALA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Ugandan authorities cut internet access and limited mobile services across the country on Tuesday, two days before an election in which President Yoweri Museveni will stand ...

Iran’s supreme leader signaled a hard line Friday against protesters rocking the Islamic Republic, accusing them of acting on behalf of President Donald Trump as authorities struggling to contain the ...

As governments increasingly shut down the internet to crush dissent, protesters are turning to new tools to stay connected. Bitchat, a messaging app using Bluetooth-based mesh networking and ...

Dara Conduit receives funding from the Australian Research Council. As citizens around the world prepared to welcome the new year, Iranians began taking to the streets to protest their country’s ...

Control over communications has become a central tool of modern state power.

History has always been unkind to governments that confuse silence with stability. Only a regime terribly afraid of its people needs Darkness at Noon ...