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Series Authoritarian Tech. In the right hands, technology can liberate societies. In the wrong hands, it can oppress them. People in power around the world are learning to use artificial intelligence, algorithms, social media and surveillance systems to their advantage, and it’s resulting in injustice and inequality.
Newsletters - Coda Story
Coda’s journalism focuses on the “why and how,” not the “when” and “what.” From the abuse of technologies to the maelstrom of disinformation, our newsletters are designed to help you uncover the complex ways that today’s pressing issues are …
Pro-Beijing influencers and their rose-tinted view of life in Xinjiang
Aug 7, 2020 · Alongside Abdurehim, there are thousands of Uyghurs around the world who have testified about their missing family members in Xinjiang. Since 2016, the region has been subjected to a brutal crackdown, corralling Uyghurs into a sprawling network of detention centers, camps and prisons.
The Londoners using face paint to trick facial recognition
Jan 23, 2020 · According to a review of the Carnival trial by privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch, the technology wrongly flagged innocent people 98% of the time.. On Friday, the Metropolitan Police announced they were rolling out the controversial technology across the city. “I believe that we have a duty to use new technologies to keep people safe in London,” the Metropolitan Police’s Assistant ...
Meghan never stood a chance against the internet - Coda Story
Dec 14, 2022 · According to a Bot Sentinel report released earlier this year, online campaigns targeting the royal couple have become a cottage industry for a handful of online influencers. Bouzy calls them “single purpose hate accounts.” Their platforms are devoted solely to posting about the couple and, according to the report, have become “a lucrative hate-for-profit enterprise” where “racism ...
Disinformation - Coda Story
Disinformation. Propaganda warfare is increasingly shaping narratives, policies and lives around the world.
In Nicaragua, there are no more newspapers - Coda Story
Sep 14, 2022 · Nicaragua ranked 160 out of 180 in this year’s freedom of press index. According to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Nicaragua and Venezuela are the two countries with the highest rate of censorship in the Americas.
When the doctor doesn’t listen - Coda Story
Jan 27, 2023 · In 2017, the London Review of Books published a commentary from an anonymous young woman with a prolonged illness that had seriously impaired her ability to care for herself. The situation was “infuriating,” she wrote in the short but impassioned article. “Something that happened to me and was beyond my control has left me like a machine that’s been switched off – disabled – unable ...
Generation Gulag: How Russia Rewrites its Soviet History - Coda …
It was our first interview shoot for Coda Story’s Generation Gulag series and we were running late. Irina Verblovskaya, 86, was expecting us but our film crew couldn’t find her tiny green cottage hidden in a forest about half an hour outside St. Petersburg.
In Yemen, the internet is a key front in the conflict - Coda Story
Mar 10, 2020 · The campaigners have been cautious to not blame the Houthi movement, out of fear of being arrested or worse. They have even adopted the Houthis’ anti-Saudi Arabia stance, accusing those responsible for the price hikes of being so detrimental to the interests of Yemenis that they make the Saudis look superior.