From the archives: In South Korea, surveillance is married to convenience and ever-present. What happens when a law aimed at stopping digital sex crimes and curbing the use of spy cams runs up against a culture of privacy? codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Evidence is mounting that India’s democratic freedoms are in regression. In November, Alishan Jafri reported on the case of Indian journalists and opposition figures who received word from Apple that “state-sponsored attackers” had targeted their phones. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Jailed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has won a Pulitzer for his columns published in The Washington Post. Revisit Coda's 2019 interview with him to hear his thoughts about disinformation, resistance and more. codastory.com/disinformation…

From the archives: At an exhibition in Istanbul, Uyghur curators put together a simulation of the Xinjiang camp experience. “It’s not a history, it’s an ongoing genocide happening in our hometown.” codastory.com/authoritarian-…

ICYMI: Many of the same design mistakes that social media companies made could be repeated in the so-called AI revolution. “I think it would be naive for us to say that even though it’s public AI that it will be built without bias,” says The Dreamcatcher. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Revolution brought a new impetus to protect the Ukrainian language and establish it as the country’s lingua franca. Last year, Amanda Coakley investigated how the changes have affected the country’s Romanian-speaking minority. codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

Turmoil in Tbilisi as protesters fight a Putin-influenced bill. An AI plot in Baltimore. Columbia’s response to a pro-Palestine encampment’s drum circles and yoga classes. All in the latest Disinfo Matters newsletter. codastory.com/newsletters/jo…

ICYMI: Women’s health groups say Meta censors their content, making it even harder to share potentially life-saving information about reproductive care and feminine health in the post-Roe era. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

A new report by Human Rights Watch details how a problematic phone app has created an additional barrier to entry for asylum seekers on the US-Mexico border. Last year for Coda, Erica Hellerstein explored how such high-tech policies are shifting the border’s geography. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Famously dredged and turned into farmland by Mussolini, the Pontine Marshes are still an agricultural powerhouse in Italy. But tending the fields today are migrant workers mainly from India. The conditions are akin to slave labor. Revisit the story: codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

“We are talking about college students having a protest. That’s what college students do. The hysteria around it is confusing to me. I’ve spent a lot of time around the camps and it’s literally a drum circle. It looks like Coachella.” codastory.com/newsletters/jo…

'This is a new mission for journalism. To work out why an issue in Manila is also about Silicon Valley and about Moscow and about you. To find the sudden intersection between countries no one ever thought about as part of a single map before.' codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

How a country assesses the line between criticism and hate speech can have serious consequences for free expression. Revisit this piece about Germany, where a broad definition of antisemitism has led many pro-Palestinian gatherings to be banned. codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

Right-wing Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin is making headlines for his recent interview with Tucker Carlson. Dig into this 2018 story for background on the man who is often called 'Putin's brain.' codastory.com/disinformation…

In this week’s Disinfo Matters newsletter, Bence X. Szechenyi gives us the inside scoop on the Columbia University protest encampment, where the students are more yoga fans and Capri-Sun drinkers than radical revolutionaries, he says. codastory.com/newsletters/jo…

'They are saying that we were all heroes. But from the archives, it doesn’t look so nice.” Revisit this story about some of the Polish people pushing back against the government's flattening of history. codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

For decades, humans have launched satellites, let them live out their useful lives, and then kept them in orbit long after they were dead. But it's getting crowded up there. Can we take out the trash before it starts causing trouble on Earth? codastory.com/waronscience/s…

'The EU is breaking its own rules and values with the border regime we have built up: They partner with autocratic regimes and provide them with technology to use in the Mediterranean to keep people out” codastory.com/authoritarian-…

'Every fifth person you stop on that road will know somebody who died, possibly a relative. And that still hurts people”. In Northern Ireland, unsolved murders threaten a precarious social peace. Revisit this story: codastory.com/rewriting-hist…

Welcome to Kurultaj, a festival where the Huns are venerated and authoritarianism in Europe finds historical justification. For our Age of Nostalgia series, Katia Patin reported from Hungary last year. codastory.com/rewriting-hist…