Technology

Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?

Fleeing Russian bombs while battling Facebook. A Meta problem Ukrainian journalists did not need

Facebook says it’s fighting disinformation and blocking Russian propaganda. But independent newsrooms in eastern Ukraine say they’re being restricted under the same rules.

Natalia Antelava

Outside the US, Elon Musk’s vision of a rules-free Twitter is expected to unlock violence and civil strife

Musk’s free speech absolutism could stoke conflict in countries like India and Ethiopia

Ellery Roberts Biddle

Watch your back — and your coffee mug. Innocent-seeming objects are tracking us everywhere

From Bluetooth headphones to smart coffee mugs to GPS trackers inside fake pill bottles, here are some unexpected ways we’re being monitored

Mariam Kiparoidze

How Silicon Valley is helping Putin and other tyrants win the information war

As state-backed accounts fight for our attention, Facebook pages of independent media outlets are disappearing

Natalia Antelava

Belarusians are using Telegram – and their own printers – to deliver the news

Volunteers are working to spread real news, under a government dedicated to keeping it hidden

Katie Marie Davies

Russians face grim options on social media

Censorship on VKontakte leaves Russians with few ways of accessing information counter to the Kremlin’s narratives

Masho Lomashvili and Caitlin Thompson

The race to save everything as war threatens the internet in Ukraine and Russia

With digital records facing obliteration, internet archivists say what’s at stake is the historical record of Ukraine, Russia, and the war

Biolabs, QAnon, and Putin: visualizing digital authoritarianism's next move

Marc Owen Jones navigates the murky waters of deceptive influence campaigns

Isobel Cockerell

China's crackdown on Uyghurs reaches the Arctic

Long a safe haven for people fleeing repression from elsewhere, Uyghurs in Norway are harassed, surveilled, and spied upon

Isobel Cockerell

China ordered a Uyghur journalist extradited to Xinjiang. His wife has taken to the Istanbul streets to stop it

Buzainuer Wubuli is determined to outmaneuver the pressure China exerts on foreign governments to have her husband, Idris Hasan, released from a Morocco prison before he is sent back to Xinjiang

China's Global Dragnet

Coda Staff

Immersive simulation attempts to pierce apathy over the Uyghur genocide

Istanbul’s Uyghur Genocide Museum guides visitors through a series of simulation rooms based on camp survivor testimony

Emin Ozmen / Magnum Photos and Katia Patin

Threatened, harassed, punished: The Uyghur translators defying China to tell Xinjiang's story

Journalists rely on a short supply of Uyghur interpreters to investigate the human rights crisis in northwest China. The CCP is intent on muzzling them

Why targeting ethnic minority journalists is central to China's crackdown on the press

Tibetan and Uyghur reporters are under siege in Beijing’s war on free expression

Erica Hellerstein

Western companies face withering criticism on how they exit authoritarian states

The Norwegian telecoms company Telenor has been trying to get out of Myanmar. A fast sale could leave millions of people exposed to military surveillance

Caitlin Thompson

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