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WEBSeries 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.
Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen - Coda Story
WEBSep 3, 2020 · Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen. ‘Esoteric star’ Christina von Dreien has made a series of worrying statements on everything from Covid-19 and 5G to European identity. As the cameras rolled, Christina von Dreien sat cross-legged on a large gray sofa, arms folded onto her knees, as if in meditation.
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
WEBApr 21, 2021 · While such videos help to portray China favorably on the international stage, they also fit perfectly with the state’s domestic goals. After years of rapid urbanization and mass migration from the country to cities, Beijing’s “rural revitalization plan” is a top priority for 2021. The government wants to modernize agriculture, eliminate poverty and diversify countryside economies by ...
Kashmir’s vanishing newspaper archives - Coda Story
WEBNov 23, 2021 · The organization sees a clear connection between Kashmir’s hundreds of missing people and the deletion of newspaper archives. “Enforced disappearances happen to erase evidence of crimes. Similarly, the newspaper reports are being disappeared to erase the memory of a particular time,” the representative added.
About Coda - Coda Story
WEBAbout 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,
Decoding China’s claims about Uyghur identity - Coda Story
WEBAug 2, 2019 · It’s the latest assault in a decades-long struggle by the Chinese government to re-establish the narrative of Xinjiang, its far north-west province, where currently up to 1.5 million Uyghurs are detained in concentration camps. Among its many claims, the 6,900-word white paper, published by the State Council Information office, says Islam was ...
Exclusive: Islamophobic disinformation and hate speech has …
WEBMay 21, 2020 · A series of Twitter hashtags falsely accusing Muslims around the world of deliberately spreading the novel coronavirus has pushed Islamophobic disinformation and hate speech to 170 million users since the outbreak of …
Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism
WEBAug 6, 2019 · The study sparked concern for good reason. China’s government is waging a well-documented mass surveillance and internment campaign against the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim people in the country’s far western region of Xinjiang, where around one million of them have been detained in “re-education” camps. From facial recognition cameras in mosques to mass DNA collection and iris ...
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WEBNewsletters. 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 interconnected, so you can make sense of the world. Send out includes:
Escaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail - Coda Story
WEB5 June 2023. first person. On April 24, a 40-year-old Uyghur man was reported to have died in a detention center in Thailand. Just a couple of months earlier, in February, another Uyghur man in his forties died in the same center, where about 50 Uyghurs are currently held awaiting possible deportation to China.
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