A whistleblower, a system crash and the United States Congress on its case; Facebook goes under the microscope, yet again.

Contributors:

Pranesh Prakash - Co-founder, Centre for Internet and Society; affiliated fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Siva Vaidhyanathan - Professor, University of Virginia; author, Antisocial Media

Marianne Franklin - Professor of global media and politics, Goldsmiths, University of London

Mahsa Alimardani - Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute

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The Pandora Papers - the largest investigation in journalism history - are reverberating through the financial world of the rich and powerful. Producer Flo Phillips tells Richard Gizbert about the biggest ever leaks of offshore data and who they have exposed.

The case of Egypt’s jailed TikTok stars

The Egyptian government has been progressively tightening its grip on cyberspace and female social media influencers are the new targets.

Contributors:

Yasmin Omar - Egypt legal associate, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; human rights lawyer

Joey Shea - Non-resident scholar, Middle East Institute

Dalia Fahmy - Associate professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn