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In the era of AI-generated news, readers value trust over customised content

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you

AI and the news: How it helps, fails, and why that matters

The flipside of women’s rights movements

Voices still missing from online activism

When Tunisia changed its laws to protect women, it shook the Arab world

How women holding flowers held Japanese courts to account

Iran feels the wrath of a movement held down for too long

How universities are beating sexual predators

Standing up to violence against women

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