October 30, 2018

How Brazil’s Trump is using WhatsApp to win election

Perspective, U.S / October 30, 2018

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who openly longs for the return of military dictatorship, has gained in the election due to a swarm of fake news spread by the popular platform With just two days to go before the run-off vote on Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro is poised to win Brazil’s WhatsApp election. The far-right candidate, […]

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The Enduring Fantasy of the Modernizing Autocrat

Middle East, Perspective, Saudi Arabia / October 30, 2018

By Pankaj Mishra Mohammed bin Salman is the latest in a long line of “courageous modernizers” who turned out to be vicious dictators. Why do people keep falling for it? “Oil is flowing again into the free markets of the world,” The New York Times declared in 1954 as Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, visited

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October 30, 2018

How Brazil’s Trump is using WhatsApp to win election

The Enduring Fantasy of the Modernizing Autocrat

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