OCT 24TH 2020
Who controls the conversation? Social media and free speech

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Free speech
Who controls the conversation?
Free speech on social media is too important to be determined by a handful of tech executives

Brexit
Seal the deal
A lot is riding on the last-ditch talks for a Brexit agreement—far more than Britain will admit

Some lessons from Microsoft
Blue-sky thinking
Parts of the digital economy are competitive. Look at the cloud

Financial markets
Young, but not dumb
What Wall Street can learn from millennial investors

Illegal fishing
Monsters of the deep
Illicit trawlers are devastating fish stocks and abusing crews. How can they be stopped?

Letters

On the Uyghurs, Venus, Catholic voters, Zoom meetings
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Social media and free speech
The great clean-up
Under public and official pressure, tech giants are removing more content. But are they making the right calls? And should it be their decision?

Microsoft
After the reboot
The software giant has turned itself around. Now for the hard part

Asia


Disinformation in Myanmar
Anti-social network
North Korea and the world
Not-so-splendid isolation
New Zealand’s election
Labour day
Drugs in India
Weed killers
Banyan
A feverish mood
China


Opinion polls
The 1.4bn-people question
Economic rebound
A big splash
Chaguan
Be China’s friend, or else
United States


Election uncertainties
The known unknowns
Donald Trump’s record
Pumped up
Trade
Tariff man
Mining for votes in Montana
Gold in them hills
Museum funding
Going, going, gone
The Equality Act
Liberalism and its contradictions
Lexington
The blue wave
Middle East & Africa


Egypt
No contest
America and the Middle East
Waiting game
Tanzania’s elections
The bulldozer rumbles on
Conservation in Africa
Elephants’ graveyard no more
Police violence in Nigeria
The young have had enough
The Americas


Chile
In need of a new edifice
Bello
Don’t mess up the miracle
Europe


Covid-19 in Europe
A patchwork of red, yellow and green
Swedish defence
Less neutral, more beefy
Georgia
Misha’s return?
France
The sacred right to offend
Charlemagne
A powerful yet puny parliament
Britain


London as a financial centre
Brex and the City
Elected mayors
Our friends in the north
Social care
Big old problem
Brexit and data firms
Inadequate
Bagehot
What Biden would mean for Boris
International


Felonious fishing
The outlaw sea
Business


Italian business
How the leopard lost its spots
Technology and competition
Search query
Utilities
What next
Bartleby
Fighting spirit
Schumpeter
Free the data serfs!
Finance & economics


Millennials and finance
The generation game
The World Trade Organisation
The home straight
Lael Brainard
Top contender
Emerging markets
The rule-makers
Price gouging
Disaster profiteering
Buttonwood
A new career in a new town
Free exchange
Graduates of the world, unite!
We’re hiring
Wanted: a new writer to cover finance
Science & technology


Controlling the pandemic
When doctors disagree
Autonomous vehicles
Look, no hands!
Space exploration
Close encounters of the sampling kind
Ecology
Time to unwire
Books & arts


Internal exile
Worlds of their own
American fiction
Made for you and me
The Spanish civil war
¡No pasarán!
North Korean architecture
Despot decor
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Voting in America
Mailing it in
Obituary


Samuel Paty
Liberty’s foot-soldier