https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-immigration-surveillance/
Aug 6, 2025 - Surveillance technology has brought U.S. immigration enforcement away from the border itself and onto the bodies of people seeking to cross it.
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https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/satellite-debris-crash-climate-change/
Aug 6, 2025 - Earth’s orbit is filling up with satellites and debris. But taking out the trash is no simple task
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https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/indian-authorities-force-sanitation-workers-to-wear-tracking-devices/
Jun 28, 2022 - Authoritarian Tech is a weekly newsletter tracking how people in power are abusing technology and what it means for the rest of us. Also in this edition:...
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https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/border-911-the-misinformation-network-profiting-off-the-invasion-narrative/
Aug 6, 2025 - A shadowy nexus of pro-Trump nonprofits are securing lucrative security contracts to spew disinformation about border “invasion”
bordermisinformationnetworknarrative
https://www.codastory.com/series/generation-gulag-ru/
Сегодня российское государство переписывает нашу историю, особенно самые темные...
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https://www.codastory.com/polarization/fear-and-loathing-the-migrant-backlash/
Nov 22, 2024 - Since October 2014, almost a year before nearly a million migrants and refugees streamed into Germany from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and North Africa,...
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https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-truth-social-truce/
Dec 3, 2025 - Donald Trump is taking credit for preventing a catastrophic war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan. Delhi is not amused
the truthcoda storysocialtruce
https://www.codastory.com/about/join-coda/
Jun 2, 2025 - Become Part of a Global Community Crafting Spaces for Stories That Connect Us In an age where algorithms divide and noise drowns truth, we’re building...
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https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/iceberg-right-ahead-the-rise-of-chinese-laundries/
Nov 19, 2025 - I’ve been reading journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book about the 1929 crash, and it’s been sending me into a bit of a spin. The parallels between the...
the riseicebergrightampchinese
https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-end-of-consensus/
Aug 6, 2025 - In Europe, members of the Trump administration sent out a clear message: America’s going solo
the endcoda storyconsensus
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/elections-armenia/
Nov 21, 2024 - Legitimate accounts suspended while suspected bots spread fake news of Western interference
coda storymanipulatingelectionsviatwitter
https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/the-oligarchs-guide-to-sitting-out-a-nuclear-winter/
Aug 6, 2025 - I’ve been thinking a lot about the apocalypse in the last few days, and wondering what options oligarchs believe are available to help them escape it. In...
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https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/uk-cyclists-ecowarriors-climate-change/
Aug 5, 2025 - Bikes could play an important role in combating climate change. But some UK drivers want none of it.
coda storyantienvironmentalistnarrativesfuel
https://www.codastory.com/episodes/transmoskva-episode-two-vikas-big-day/
May 1, 2019 - After years of saving, Vika is finally going for the facial feminization surgery she has long dreamt about. Join us as we accompany her to the clinic and catch...
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https://www.codastory.com/episodes/truth-and-theater-in-st-petersburg-episode-2/
Jun 13, 2019 - In episode 2 of Truth and Theater in St. Petersburg, directors Grigoriy and Vladimir expound on their Orthodox Christian beliefs. For Vladimir, it was God’s...
st petersburgcoda storytruththeaterepisode
https://www.codastory.com/polarization/orthodox-church-partners-with-the-kremlin/
Nov 22, 2024 - Shared interests have pulled Putin’s government and the Orthodox Church closer together. But how long will their embrace last?
the kremlincoda storycross
https://www.codastory.com/armed-conflict/the-systematic-silencing-of-gaza/
Dec 3, 2025 - Never have so many journalists been killed in a war and, even as global condemnation rises, little is being done to hold Israel to account
coda storysystematicsilencinggaza
https://www.simpladocs.com/case-studies/bipty
In this case study, Natalia Ohanesian shares the amazing results Simpladocs achieved helping Bipty streamline and automate their operations with Coda. Let's do...
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https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/mecca-holy-sites-surveillance/
Nov 26, 2024 - Saudi Arabia has drastically increased deportations of migrants in the past decade. In 2017, it began actively seeking to remove undocumented migrants as part...
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https://www.codastory.com/instagarchs/oleg-deripaska/
Feb 5, 2024 - Oleg Deripaska has been called one of the "2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis" and has been paying the price for his loyalty
oleg deripaskacoda storyputinoligarchs
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/decoding-chinas-claims-uyghur-identity/
Feb 19, 2025 - A new government white paper says Islam was introduced to Uyghur culture by force. Scholars and activists say the claims mark an attempt to rewrite history
coda storydecodingclaimsuyghuridentity
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/texas-isps-bill/
Aug 6, 2025 - Texas legislators take aim at online information about abortion, in what may become a new strategy for abortion opponents in a post-Roe America.
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https://www.codastory.com/episodes/clash-of-narratives-a-tale-of-two-georgias-episode-one-freedom-vs-tradition/
May 1, 2019 - Our pilot season begins in Georgia, where two very different women, Tamara Chergoleishvili and Irma Inashvili, fight for opposite visions for their country and...
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https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/russia-trans-care-ban/
Aug 6, 2025 - Psychologist Egor Burtsev says the Russian parliament’s decision to deny gender-affirming care to transgender people will be devastating.
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https://www.codastory.com/coda-story-strangers-guide-win-national-magazine-award-aztecs-photo/
Apr 16, 2025 - NEW YORK, April 15, 2025 — Coda Story, in partnership with Stranger’s Guide, has been awarded the prestigious National Magazine Award for Best Service and...
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https://www.codastory.com/audio/
Apr 29, 2025 - Some stories need to be heard. Coda produces podcasts and other audio projects that explore the forces shaping our world today, from the abuse of new...
coda storypodcasts
https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/honduras-surveillance-drug-trade/
Aug 6, 2025 - How big-name monitoring software from companies like Cellebrite and Palantir made Honduras a hotbed of spy tech.
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https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/grieving-california/
Aug 5, 2025 - Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires.
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https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/page/5/
In this current, stories on how those in power shape our future by weaponized the past and manipulating our memories
rewriting historycoda
https://www.codastory.com/episodes/transmoskva-episode-three-goodbye-moscow/
May 1, 2019 - As Vika recovers from surgery, she is nervous about the future. After three years in Moscow it’s time to return home to her family in Siberia.
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https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/antivax-instagram-hashtag/
Apr 30, 2025 - Anti-vaxxers are hijacking sexual assault and abortion rights hashtags on Instagram to spread disinformation
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https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/cash-moves-everything-around-us-the-kremlins-crypto-gambit/
Dec 24, 2025 - I am, I freely admit, more interested in the “cash in circulation” statistics published by major central banks than most people are. Month after month, we...
cashmoveseverythingaroundus
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/colorado-silver-mines-green-energy/
Aug 6, 2025 - Companies in the American West are betting big on silver and trying to clean up a historically dirty business.
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https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/a-tale-of-two-bitcoin-billionaires/
Oct 8, 2025 - There have been some pretty chunky fines imposed by U.S. authorities for money laundering offences over the years. HSBC paid out $1.9 billion in 2012 for...
bitcoin billionairescoda storytaletwo
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/poland-elections-lgbtq/
Nov 21, 2024 - Activists say scaremongering about LGBTQ communities has almost become official policy in Poland
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https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/jailed-for-a-like-episode-5/
Nov 21, 2024 - Aleksey Kungurov, a Russian blogger, was sentenced to two years in prison criticizing Russia's bombing campaign in Syria on social media.
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https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/the-unveiling-of-a-horror/
Nov 26, 2024 - Stories from the Bengal Famine
the unveilingcoda storyhorror
https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-fire-this-time-can-america-douse-the-flames/
Dec 3, 2025 - The Civil War never ended. It just shape-shifted. In the midst of a bitterly divisive sociopolitical and cultural war, Americans must rebuild their burning...
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https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/adam-kirsch-anthropocene-antihumanist-earth/
Aug 6, 2025 - During a week of unprecedented heatwaves, author Adam Kirsch discusses a post-human future, and asks: would a world without us be so bad?
life on earthcoda storyhumans
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/page/14/
In this current, stories on how technology has captured every aspect of our lives from intimacy to politics.
coda storyauthoritariantechnology
https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/page/9/
Today’s most innovative police states owe more to Mark Zuckerberg than to Joseph Stalin. From weaponizing copyright to biometric systems, in this current...
coda storysurveillancecontrol
https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/making-corruption-great-again/
Dec 17, 2025 - The U.S. government's pause of the anti-corruption law gave us a perfect natural experiment on the root causes of corruption
great againcoda storymakingcorruption
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/watching-sodom-in-russia/
Nov 21, 2024 - TV hosts across Kremlin-controlled networks in Russia regularly discuss homosexuality as a problem that needs to be solved. Three quarters of Russians now...
coda storyscreening
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/what-donald-trump-owes-to-george-soros/
Aug 6, 2025 - Steve Bannon, a high priest of the far right movement that put Trump in the White House, says Soros gave him the model to follow
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https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/2023-roundup-science-climate-stories/
Nov 22, 2024 - A round-up of Coda’s top science and environment stories in 2023.
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https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/self-spreading-vaccines-disinfo/
Jul 15, 2022 - The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Russian ecocide in Ukraine, the...
conspiracy theoristscoda storyscaremongerselfspreading
https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/nursing-ai-hospitals-robots-capture/
Aug 6, 2025 - The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away...
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https://www.codastory.com/the-age-of-exile/
Nov 25, 2025 - Explores how displacement, once a historical punishment, has become the defining condition of our time, and what it reveals about the profound transformations...
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https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/russia-journalists-rare-stand-independent-press/
Nov 21, 2024 - A rare show of solidarity between pro-Kremlin and independent journalists helped Ivan Golunov stay out of jail.
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https://www.codastory.com/oligarchy/derailing-the-kleptocrats-gravy-train/
Nov 5, 2025 - Last week, I went to Montserrat on a research trip, the fruits of which I may one day divulge to you, if indeed there ever are any. It is a small British...
gravy traincoda storyderailing
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/hope-fear-and-the-internet/
Nov 26, 2024 - The Tech Mogul Under French Investigation and the Global Implications of His Unregulated Empire
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https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/arab-dissidents-extradition/
Aug 6, 2025 - The Arab League is relying on the little-known Arab Interior Ministers Council to target critics abroad. Now, a former detainee is taking them to court in the...
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https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/turkey-journalists-transnational-repression/
Aug 6, 2025 - Using the language of press freedom, Erdogan has weaponized the media to intimidate Turkish dissidents abroad.
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https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-scramble-to-reconstruct-gaza/
Aug 6, 2025 - Israel says it is committed to making Donald Trump’s “plan” for a Gaza without Gazans a reality . Can Arab states stave off a second Nakba?
coda storyscramblereconstructgaza
https://www.codastory.com/audible-and-coda-story-launch-groundbreaking-series-captured-the-secret-behind-silicon-valleys-ai-takeover/
Apr 9, 2025 - Six-part audio investigation from Coda Story and Audible, hosted by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, uncovers how Silicon Valley’s AI...
coda storyaudiblelaunchgroundbreakingseries
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/moscow-diplomatic-trolls/
Nov 21, 2024 - Russian embassy social media accounts are now on the frontline of the Kremlin’s global information war. We’ve been looking at the messages they put out
coda storydiplomatictrolls
https://www.codastory.com/polarization/what-we-miss-when-we-talk-about-the-middle-east/
Nov 19, 2025 - Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to telling the story of conflict
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https://www.codastory.com/about/events/
Aug 7, 2024 - We are working to reimagine journalism in the age of artificial intelligence. The digital technologies that made our lives so much more convenient have also...
coda storyevents
https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/the-dangerous-myths-sold-by-the-conspiritualists/
Aug 6, 2025 - Wellness influencers are repackaging old conspiracy theories and misinformation to peddle products to vulnerable people
coda storydangerousmythssold
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/when-memory-fails/
Nov 10, 2025 - Germany is held up as the model for historical reconciliation for how it has dealt with the Holocaust. But as America grapples with the legacy of racial...
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https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/fleeing-saudi-sisters-message-apple-google/
Nov 26, 2024 - After escaping a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their families, the two women have called for the removal of a controversial Western-backed app which...
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https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/page/2/
Truth is under attack as our information system splinters. Ever more platforms and voices means ever more noise and alternative facts. This current looks at...
coda storydisinformation
https://www.codastory.com/episodes/truth-and-theater-in-st-petersburg-episode-3/
Jun 13, 2019 - In the season finale of Clash of Narratives’ third season, two very different Russian theater directors sit down and talk about fascism, freedom of speech,...
st petersburgcoda storytruththeaterepisode
https://www.codastory.com/polarization/from-russia-with-hate/
Aug 6, 2025 - Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBT blueprint has made its way across the world to the Oval Office, where Donald Trump is using it to draw up American policy
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https://www.codastory.com/polarization/funding-anti-gender-foundations/
Nov 26, 2024 - A recent report exposes the extent of money being channeled to anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ initiatives in Europe
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https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/donald-trumps-imperial-dreams/
Aug 6, 2025 - Why the demand for minerals shows that the Ukraine war is about colonizers competing for resources
imperial dreamscoda storydonald
https://www.codastory.com/series/transmoskva/
Meet Vika, a 47-year-old trans woman from Siberia. “Transmoskva” follows Vika as she completes her transition and struggles to find acceptance in...
coda story
https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/kazakhstan-smart-city-surveillance/
Aug 6, 2025 - In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance...
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https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-content-moderators/
Aug 6, 2025 - Content moderators for TikTok, Meta and ChatGPT are demanding that tech companies reckon with the human toll of their enterprise.
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https://www.codastory.com/armed-conflict/a-ukrainian-filmmaker-photographs-a-sinister-landscape/
Nov 26, 2024 - When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Techynskyi quickly moved his wife and two teenage daughters out of the...
coda storyukrainianfilmmakerphotographssinister
https://www.codastory.com/armed-conflict/russia-council-of-mothers-and-wives/
Aug 6, 2025 - Russia’s partial draft has sparked outrage. And it’s pushing people into the hands of conspiracy theorists.
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https://www.codastory.com/idea/uyghur-journalists/
China’s determination to silence journalists is the culmination of an authoritarian project that models a new level of global repression combining...
transnational repressioncoda storychinauyghurs
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/nigeria-obi-presidential-elections-2023/
Aug 6, 2025 - The Nigerian youth movement behind presidential candidate Peter Obi is looking to take power in 2023.
the risecoda storyobidients
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/stop-drinking-from-the-toilet/
Dec 3, 2025 - We have systems to filter our water. Now we need systems to filter our tech
from thecoda storystopdrinkingtoilet