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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. The far-reaching implications of these tools is one of the most pressing stories in the world right now — and will continue to be for a long time.
Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a ...
Apr 15, 2022 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning book brings readers into the lives of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Holocaust survivor, and his rebellious cartoonist son, Art. The novel unspools two parallel journeys: Art’s attempts to document, understand and ultimately write a graphic novel about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, and Vladek’s ...
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 …
Kashmir’s vanishing newspaper archives - Coda Story
Nov 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.
‘I don’t see any future in Sicily’: How migrants have become …
Dec 2, 2020 · On August 24 a cruise liner docked in the Sicilian port of Trapani. It was not, however, one of the many ordinary vessels that typically call during the summer tourist season. Rather, it was what is known as a quarantine ship, carrying 603 migrants who had been transferred from the nearby island of Lampedusa.
Oligarchs: The New Gods & the Case of Bill Gates - Coda Story
Oct 11, 2024 · Oligarchs: The New Gods & the Case of Bill Gates. Gates’ Foundation hoped to bridge the gap between what farming looks like in America and Africa. A recent investigation reveals why that model is failing. A fascinating new report from Oxfam draws a compelling link between oligarchy, poverty, and the world’s inability to fight climate change.
Who is the real Javier Milei? - Coda Story
Feb 2, 2024 · Behind it all is the self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” economist, television pundit and lambchop sideburn-laden populist President Javier Milei, who took office at the end of 2023. Milei’s rapid rise was fueled in part by his relative outsider status in a moment of economic crisis caused by what Milei calls the failed political ...
Global Crises, Local Consequences: How Silicon Valley Shapes Our …
Oct 9, 2024 · The roots of each of these crises are buried deep in the history of individual places, but so much of the journalism we do at Coda brings us back to Silicon Valley. The valley is the modern day equivalent of the heart of the Roman empire; a place of extreme abundance, fantastic innovation and terrifying detachment from the rest of the world.
How Venezuela lost its middle class - Coda Story
Feb 13, 2023 · Teachers’ wages, the region’s lowest, have decreased by 95% since 1997 and few earn much more than $50 a month, far below a living wage. Between January 9 and January 17 alone, teachers and professors led 400 protest marches across the country. It’s the latest in a long line of humiliations suffered by Venezuela’s educated, aspirational ...