Legal Tools

From jailing people for likes to weaponizing copyright, it’s easier to prosecute your critics when you can find them on Facebook.

In Yemen, the internet is a key front in the conflict

Price hikes and slow broadband speeds have cut off many Yemenis from a world beyond the war

Germany to force social media companies to report hate speech to police

After a surge in far-right violence, a new law aims to hold digital platforms to account and bring extremists to justice

US sanctions block Iranians from accessing coronavirus map

As coronavirus spreads in Iran, US sanctions bar Iranians from using a Johns Hopkins map to track the virus

Isobel Cockerell

Kem Sokha’s trial begins in Cambodia — Coda Follows Up

As internet blackouts hit India, business and tech wrestle with the fallout

Businesses and informal economies have all been hard hit by India’s latest internet shutdowns.

Isobel Cockerell

Mobile credit expands mass surveillance of ordinary Kenyans

‘Fintech’ apps bring credit to poor Kenyans. Debt and invasions of privacy are part of the deal

Keren Weitzberg

Kenya’s Controversial Biometric Project Is Shrouded in Secrecy

A $60 million government initiative to collect the data of millions in an effort to enhance services has been marked by criticism about its inefficiency and allegations of misconduct

Keren Weitzberg

Egypt’s new 'Facebook law' targets freedom of speech

Under an increasingly authoritarian government in Egypt, the country’s journalists and activists face threats from a new law governing the use of social media

The global rise of Internet sovereignty

China and Russia want the global internet to look more like theirs. Some argue they are beginning to succeed

Eduard Saakashvili

Tourism from China provokes an Internet crackdown in Thailand

Tourism from China has become a key sector of Thailand’s economy. But China’s dominance also means Thai authorities have cracked down on any negative publicity which might aggravate Beijing

Fresh News and the Future of the Fourth Estate in Cambodia

In the Cambodian government's ongoing war on the media, a website called Fresh News has become one of the country’s most useful sources of political misinformation and propaganda

Andrew Nachemson

An Era Of Cyber-Sovereignty

Authoritarians are integrating the internet into their repressive apparatuses

Coda Staff

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