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Cartoon by Iranian artist Mana Neyestani.

Authoritarian regimes

“Humour helps overcome the fear imposed by dictatorship”

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by Mana Neyestani
There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
This meme spread in Kenya following President William Ruto’s announcement to buy a machine that makes chapati – a popular flatbread – for schools. Many consider this to be superfluous compared to other problems in the country.

Internet culture

When humour and tragedy go hand in hand

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by Alba Nakuwa
Platforms like YouTube are essential for the visibility of Indian female comedians.

Female comedians

Why female comedy in India is not just about laughs

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by Ipsita Sapra
"Boxing", Khalid Albaih.

Our view

Political humour serves both freedom and extremism

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by Jörg Döbereiner
"Golf", by Khalid Albaih.

Cartoons

“Challenge the history that our new-age pharaohs will try to write”

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by Khalid Albaih
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
With love for fair elections and European Union membership: Protest against Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s decision to suspend negotiations on the country's bid to join the EU in Tbilisi, Georgia in December 2024.

Non-violent protest

Laughing in the face of oppression: How humour can defy autocracy

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by Sophia A. McClennen
by Srdja Popovic
A front page of the German satirical magazine “Titanic”. It reads: “Previously unthinkable: Nazis in Germany?!”

Satire and journalism

“Criticism of what rules, coated in candy”

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by Tim Wolff

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