The dangerous powers of Big Tech in general, and Facebook in particular
Author: Pascal Cohet
08 November 2021
For the second time, a US Big Tech censored an African leader. After the censorship of the Nigerian President by Twitter, Facebook has just censored the ...
Disclosure, censorship, deception: Invasive limit, legitimacy diagonal, and diversity.
Author: Pascal Cohet
31 October 2021
As broadband internet access begins to take hold in Africa, this brings both opportunities and risks, which suggests paying attention to informational ...
Banning pseudonimity endangers lives, notably in Africa
Author: Pascal Cohet
29 October 2021
Last summer, Joe Biden unilaterally ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, casting doubts on the ability of US intelligence to anticipate ...
The critical role of perception builders
Author: Pascal Cohet
29 October 2021
When implementing the UN 2030 agenda, the construction of perceptions and its builders, especially in the media, must be considered. This is what ...
Power over opinion, electoral interference, and undermining of African justice
Author: Pascal Cohet
28 October 2021
E.H. Carr considered three forms of political power in the international sphere: military power, economic power, and a third form, less often cited: power ...
Now you know what Second-order Cindynics are for
Author: Pascal Cohet
08 August 2021
Strikes by healthcare workers were launched in France during the pandemic: this will long remain the best example of friction undermining the operational ...
The silent construction of distrust in France since 9/11
Author: Pascal Cohet
30 July 2021
In times of crisis, it would be ideal for the public to trust the government. The debates on the bill relating to the pandemic management, which must among ...
The Failure of the Two-Pillar French Strategy in Rwanda
Author: Pascal Cohet
22 June 2021
While Vincent Duclert insists on French support, in particular military, for the government of Juvénal Habyarimana, Hubert Védrine recalls that French ...
Media coverage of the Duclert report and legitimisation of armed groups in Africa: a quintessential pharmakon
Author: Pascal Cohet
19 June 2021
The media coverage of the Duclert report illustrates one of the basic axioms of Cindynics: the pharmakon principle, which states that any action aiming at ...
Ethnicist interpretive framework vs ethnic identity cards
Author: Pascal Cohet
08 June 2021
After noticing the absence of a description of US post-Cold War peacekeeping policy in the Duclert report, which constitutes a topological disparity with ...
The omission of PDD 25
Author: Pascal Cohet
06 June 2021
In a previous post, we presented the different stages of the deconflictualisation process enabled by the cindynic method. Before reducing the prospective ...
Big-tech self-regulation: a cybercolonial concept
Author: Pascal Cohet
05 June 2021
President Buhari was censored by Twitter after posting a controversial message on June 1. In response, Twitter was suspended in Nigeria. Twitter then ...