
Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state
Matters of Life and Death
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Persecutors
Punishment and monitoring is not all new, you can trace it back thousands of years to human informers. But once the smartphone starts and also things like facial recognition cameras and all the rest, it sort of moves into a new era doesn't it? Absolutely, clearly people have been using technology of the day to persecute Christians that they have been doing with anything else for many centuries. So it's really has a kind of totalising effect on persecuted Christians in many areas in a way that previous bouts of persecution haven't been quite so overtly kind of suffocating.
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