Our podcast UNDERCURRENTS, about tech and tyrants, with @codastory and Audible UK 🎧, has been longlisted for the One World Media awards. We're delighted! Give it a listen 🦾audible.co.uk/pd/Undercurren…

What does the Chinese Communist Party have in common with parents groups and r-wing pols in Missouri? Two great Coda Story pieces this week about books and the people trying to ban them. codastory.com/rewriting-hist… by @E_Hellerstein and codastory.com/rewriting-hist… by Frankie Vetch

Podcast recommendation: I loved loved loved (was also alarmed and terrified by) this podcast looking at tyrants' weaponization of tech, from Coda Story and Audible, hosted by my brilliant friend natalia antelava audible.com/pd/Undercurren…

This is fantastic Isobel Cockerell ! (And I will of course use the opportunity to cheekily repost this... x.com/CodaStory/stat… Audible Coda Story )

Stunning outcome in Thailand's election. Youth-led pro-democracy 'Move Forward' takes massive lead over military backed coalition. It didn't come out of nowhere. Gratitude once more to those who told us their stories👇 Coda Story Audible

On the day #Namibia's #LGBTQ community has won a huge victory at the Supreme Court, check out our photo essay of radical joy at #dragnightNamibia africanarguments.org/2023/05/drag-n…

It's three years today since Tar was 'disappeared.' A lot's happened in Thailand since then, not least last month's astonishing election result. But still no resolution for Tar's family or friends.

The route Uyghurs take to flee China is known as "the pirate road" - a crazy journey through the jungles of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and finally into Malaysia, where they can fly to Turkey. Here's one man's astonishing story of his journey to freedom: codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Coming next month from Bonnier Books UK - the true story of a small Ukrainian farming town that tried to halt Russia's invasion. With thanks to Lindsey Hilsum Fiona Hill Andrei Kurkov and more. #Ukraine Available now for pre-ordering.

A town in northern Albania has lost half of its residents since the fall of communism. On TikTok, smugglers advertise cheap passage, and open a window into what life might be like in Britain. Isobel Cockerell reports, in partnership with The Economist’s 1843 magazine. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Another fascinating story from Isobel Cockerell. The reality behind the Tiktok videos, the town emptied of young men: 'It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” she added. At her local park, which used to be a hangout spot for teenagers, she only sees old people now.'

"What he saw next was dozens of Ethiopians being “slaughtered like sheep,” he said. Then Wabe took a closer look at their faces and gasped. “They were people I grew up with.” Excellent @E_Hellerstein on the content moderators fighting back. codastory.com/authoritarian-… @codastory

My newest story is up!! It's a crazy one about reindeer, Meta, dimming the sun, space, the Earth's core, green colonialism and man-made earthquakes. Would love it if you had a read. codastory.com/waronscience/s…

natalia antelava Maria Ressa "In the short term to counter, we need education, in long term we need legislation" says Maria Ressa -- re tech platforms and how they undermine democracy by fragmenting shared reality. #ZEG2024

What you need to know ahead of one of the most consequential elections this year, from Nadia Beard (Georgia... the country not the state, though both are likely to be nail-biters!)

I was lucky enough to meet the legend that is Judy Estrin Judy Estrin in Palo Alto this summer. She was a pioneer in the development of the Internet at its earliest stages. Do read her fascinating essay on how unregulated AI is poisoning our world codastory.com/disinformation…

Fed up with our crappy information ecosystem? Judy Estrin worked in tech since the early days of Silicon Valley and she has an idea: Stop drinking from the toilet. codastory.com/disinformation…

Luka's diary is well worth a read on the battle for democracy in Georgia (the country not the state) The frustrations, the exhaustion, the rollercoaster of emotions as protesters try to stop Georgia edging ever closer to Putin. codastory.com/disinformation…