Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit, such as the abuse of new technologies, the rise of oligarchy and the manipulation of scientific fact.
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1/ Egypt is in the spotlight this week: President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is busy curbing local independent press, entangling himself in foreign conflicts and, by 2030, finding a successor among hand-picked candidates.
Take a closer look in this week’s Coda Currents.
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1/ A new worker-led report warns AI is making work worse and calls for worker-centric rules. In 2023 we met the Nairobi content moderators who screened the worst of Facebook and TikTok for as little as $1.46 an hour, then took Meta to court.
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1/ Librarians across the U.S. are facing threats, harassment, and pressure to quit for defending access to books on race, gender, and sexuality. As censorship campaigns grow, the fight over book bans is becoming a key front in America’s culture wars.
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1/ Delhi police says it uses AI and surveillance tech to maintain law and order in the city. But as protests mount in India’s capital, the tools are increasingly used to keep dissenters at bay.
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What's worth keeping a record of? We're asking writers, artists, and thinkers about the places, meals, and memories that shaped them.
We asked Bao Nguyen, the award-winning Vietnamese-American filmmaker and director of "The Stringer".
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1/ While international media attention is fixed on the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, three pivotal democracies — India, South Africa and Brazil — are quietly facing political crises of their own. See the full picture in this week's Coda Currents.
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1/ A lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has died in undisclosed circumstances, and dozens of people are in quarantine. We reported on the Kansas lab built to house some of the world’s most dangerous pathogens. codastory.com/stayonthestory…
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Last year, Kimbal Musk (Elon's younger brother) flew 3,000 drones over the Vatican.
Meanwhile, behind closed doors in Vatican City, Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell and Yuval Noah Harari were among those debating how humans and AI might coexist.
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1/ Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso is an autocrat accused of crimes against humanity, yet his image across the continent is carefully honed to suit the algorithmic age. codastory.com/disinformation…
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1/ “The boys have gone extinct.”
In Kukës, Albania, TikTok glamorizes life in the U.K. while smugglers exploit the dream. Families split, streets fall silent, and an algorithm pushes a generation to leave. codastory.com/authoritarian-…
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The Atlas Editor-in-Chief @simonallison went all the way to Times Square to invite you to our launch...
...and on October 28th, he’ll be live on Zoom to lead an editorial meeting on the next, unpublished issue of The Atlas, and you're invited to join.
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