Geopolitics
Anonymous Scrolling in a Surveilled World: Instagram Tools and the Architecture of Digital Colonialism
This article outlines various tools like FollowSpy, StoriesIG, and others that allow users to anonymously view public Instagram Stories without logging in, a practice that exposes the privacy theater of Western platforms and their exploitation of user data for control. This technological landscape serves as a microcosm of the broader digital colonialism practiced by US tech giants, which surveil global populations while hypocritically preaching about rules-based international orders they themselves circumvent.
