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Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum. Violent demonstrations which erupted in over 50 cities across Mexico on November 15 were secretly financed and coordinated by an international right-wing network and amplified by bot networks, a new report by public fact-checking platform Infodemia has concluded. Those findings were amplified by Mexican President Claudia […]

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by Rudabeh Shahid, Nischal Dhungel, and Shakthi De Silva* In September, Nepal became the third South Asian country in three years to see its government collapse under the weight of mass protests. After the government banned twenty-six social media platforms, young Nepalis poured into Kathmandu’s streets, furious at what they saw as an attempt to silence […]

On 8 September, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, erupted. Tens of thousands of young people rallied against poverty, corruption and repression.

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