When top Russian diplomat Maria Zakharova explains that George Orwell’s dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four was written to describe the dangers of Western liberalism and not totalitarianism, we may feel as though we are watching an absurd Monty Python satire. In those parodies, artists question facts and overkill conversations with extreme statements to criticize an existing system and discourage the audience from becoming participants in the absurd comedy. While such play

From a European perspective, the working conditions of digital platform workers are a matter of great concern. The crisis caused by the current pandemic has dramatically increased the number and value of services rendered via digital platforms, most notably the delivery of services and online services themselves. Currently, there are 24 million EU platform workers, and the estimated value of services delivered via digital platforms reaches €14 billion. After gathering comment