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Pressure Systems — Algorithmic Authority and Epistemic Fracture

April 30, 2026

Algorithmic governance and platform consolidation are rapidly displacing institutional authority, while AI-mediated disinformation and state-backed media suppression fracture shared reality across geopolitical fault lines. This epistemic fragmentation coincides with the resource extraction required to sustain compute infrastructure, externalizing ecological and human costs onto agricultural communities and Global South laborers. Civil society, food sovereignty networks, and regulatory interventions are attempting to rebuild cognitive and digital sovereignty, yet they contend with centralized technological power and converging polycrisis dynamics.

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The Artificial Intelligence Commission

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society — media and technology, AI governance, structural power

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Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban

EFF — AI governance, structural power, media and technology

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Hoaxes Keep Escaping Containment

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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Japan and China Are Edging Dangerously Close to Conflict

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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New tech, new rules: Narrative and civil society in the age of AI and algorithms

Global Voices — geopolitics, media and technology

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France: Food Sovereignty, Solidarity and the Alliance between Rural and Urban Struggles

La Via Campesina — food sovereignty

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Police in Maldives Raid Newsroom Over Video Accusing President of Affair

OCCRP — structural power, geopolitics

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Deadly deepfakes: A survival guide for the age of algorithmic war

Rest of World — AI governance, media and technology, geopolitics

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Supervillain or Cicero? Why Palantir’s manifesto has such sinister vibes

The Conversation — all

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The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor

The Conversation — all

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Albanese government’s latest attempt to make tech giants pay for journalism is needed but carries big risks

The Conversation — all

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Tapping your genome with AI and quantum computing could deliver on the promise of personalized medicine – but practical and ethical hurdles remain

The Conversation — all

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Climate policy isn’t partisan — research suggests more on the right support it than oppose it

The Conversation — all

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Beijing Is Using Influencers to Burnish Its Image

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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The Hormuz Hit to Helium

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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