Programmatic advertising systems are responsible for placing the vast majority of digital ads on the web, using sophisticated algorithms to automatically match products with potential customers. Only a handful of big tech and social media companies control this technology, helping sustain their monopoly over this multi-billion-dollar industry.
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When he was just 15, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins.
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The revelation of a top-secret British surveillance programme brings down the dominoes in a dark and analytical film about technology, rights and structural racism – and about a man with the courage to speak out.
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Corruption and mismanagement has turned Venezuela into a failed state. Over six million people have fled the country in recent years. Around one million children were left behind by their parents.
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A deep dive into the world of disinformation, exploring how and why it’s spreading at pace throughout the world, and the striking consequences for social cohesion and democracy.
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In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal Peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone – a symbol of Russia’s status as an energy superpower. However, the peninsula is also the ancestral home of the nenets, who have been pasturing here for over 200 generations. But for how much longer? Can they survive this industrialisation?
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When is saving a life a crime? In 2015 Mo Abassi travelled to the Greek island of Lesbos with a humanitarian organisation to help refugees. He saved a group of people from drowning when their overcrowded boat got into difficulties. But then the local authorities arrest him and accuse him of human trafficking.
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Their names are Sofia and Nigina. They're Afghans, beautiful, proud, best friends. And, despite themselves and without knowing it, icons of Kabul's idle youth. Behind the curtains of their beauty salon, whose exterior has been ransacked by the Taliban, they support a small team and a dream: to protect their last space of freedom.
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From 1950 to 1990, France, the United-States and the United Kingdom dropped hundreds of nuclear bombs on the Pacific islands. At the cost of sacrificing the local populations.
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