Rachel Griffin, Author at The Paris Globalist

How Social Media Platforms Silence Opposition in the Middle East and North Africa

Rachel GriffinNovember 18, 2020

According to the NGO Syrian Archive, there are more hours of video documenting the Syrian civil war than the duration of the conflict itself. Since the Arab Sp... Read More

Contact tracing apps are a dangerous distraction

Rachel GriffinMay 21, 2020

“Solutionism”, a term popularised by Evgeny Morozov’s 2013 book To Save Everything, Click Here, refers to the pervasive attitude that complex social problems c... Read More

Opinion: Refugees and displaced persons need urgent help to survive coronavirus

Rachel GriffinMarch 21, 2020

The COVID-19 virus that appeared in China in December has caused some of the greatest social and economic disruption ever seen in developed countries outside o... Read More

Is the EU losing the AI race? It doesn’t matter

Rachel GriffinMarch 16, 2020

In a 2018 article, celebrated historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari suggested that the democracies of the future might find themselves at a fatal disadvanta... Read More

Review: Reece Jones’ “Violent Borders” is an Indictment of Exclusionary Border Policies

Rachel GriffinJanuary 24, 2020

On the 23rd of October 2019, the bodies of 39 undocumented migrants from Vietnam were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, south England. O... Read More