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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.
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 ...
Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a ...
Apr 15, 2022 · which describes Spiegelman’s process and explores the public reception of the text. Photo by Kirk McKoy/Getty Images. In MetaMaus, Spiegelman reflected on the different cultural responses to Maus he saw while promoting the book and conducting interviews for it at various points in time.
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
Apr 21, 2021 · In the West, the online phenomenon of cottagecore has rocketed in popularity during the pandemic, with influencers showcasing picture-perfect lives of vegetable growing, knitting and baking in gingerbread-house surroundings.
On the US-Mexico border, a corridor of surveillance becomes …
Jul 14, 2021 · An integrated fixed tower (IFT) in Arivaca, Arizona, one of 48 IFTs across the southwest border. Photo by Kitra Cahana. While there is little research on the intersection between border surveillance and migrant deaths, a 2019 peer-reviewed study by researchers from the University of Arizona and Earlham College found that the surveillance matrix along southern Arizona’s border — including ...
Chinese cinema’s push to produce the ideal Uyghur citizen
Nov 5, 2020 · Among them is “The Wings of Songs,” a lavish musical that premiered in 2019 in China’s capital to celebrate the 70 th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The movie was partly shot in Tacheng, on the border of China and Kazakhstan, an area where at least seven internment camps have been located by satellite imaging.The film promotes national, pan-ethnic unity by showing ...
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About Coda Coda Media is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to character-driven storytelling on the roots of major global crises. The expanding geography of authoritarianism is at the intersection of all our journalistic concerns. We report on the abuse of new technologies, the manipulation of scientific facts, the rise of oligarchy, the dangers of transnational repression,
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.
Natalia Antelava, Author at Coda Story
Natalia Antelava is Coda’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief. Originally from Tbilisi, Natalia started her journalism career in West Africa and had been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India.