Themes
ExtraFokus collects investigations and analyses into themes. Each theme has its own page with all articles, newest first.
AI and society
Today, algorithms dictate the news you see, which job applicants make the shortlist, and which citizens warrant additional scrutiny from public authorities. That power is rarely up for…
Russia
The West's failure regarding Russia was not born of naivety alone. It was interest-driven blindness: German corporations wanted cheap gas, British banks wanted Russian money, shipping companies wanted…
Surveillance
Surveillance is no longer just a tool of the state. It is also the business model of tech giants, and the line between voluntary and involuntary data collection…
Migration
The European Union spends billions constructing Fortress Europe, yet remains paralyzed by permanent migration crises. As border walls rise and people are reduced to bureaucratic abstractions, real human…
Big Tech
Five corporations—Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft—control the digital infrastructure billions of people rely on to communicate, trade, work, and seek information. The issue is not scale alone.…
Big stories rarely disappear. They return under new headlines and are told as new stories, so the connection is lost and nobody has to answer for what they did last time.
A theme gathers what we have written about a subject over time, so you can follow it from the beginning and see what has been promised, changed and forgotten along the way. The newest article is at the top.
We choose themes where power is hard to see and where the consequences hit ordinary people, including artificial intelligence, surveillance, Big Tech, Russia and migration.