Iran: The protests, the blackout and the narrative war
Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
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Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
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Cut off from the outside world, Iran has been convulsed by some of the worst violence since the 1979 Islamic revolution...
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