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WEBBattling History. Around the world, competing visions of history are clashing. Opposing camps fight these battles on the basis of fundamental issues of identity — who gets to belong and who gets cast aside. The events in question might be rooted in the past, but when it comes to how they are interpreted, it's really the future that is at stake.
Disinformation - Coda Story
WEBThe police beat me up mercilessly. One Gen-Z protester’s story of police brutality in Tbilisi, where tens of thousands are marching on the streets to protest the Kremlin-inspired 'foreign agents' law. first person. Luka Gviniashvili and Isobel Cockerell. Information War.
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
WEBApr 21, 2021 · While such videos help to portray China favorably on the international stage, they also fit perfectly with the state’s domestic goals. After years of rapid urbanization and mass migration from the country to cities, Beijing’s “rural revitalization plan” is a top priority for 2021. The government wants to modernize agriculture, eliminate poverty and diversify countryside economies by ...
About Coda - Coda Story
WEBAbout Coda Coda Media is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to character-driven storytelling on the roots of major global crises. The expanding geography of authoritarianism is at the intersection of all our journalistic concerns. We report on the abuse of new technologies, the manipulation of scientific facts, the rise of oligarchy, the dangers of transnational repression,
Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen - Coda Story
WEBSep 3, 2020 · Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen. ‘Esoteric star’ Christina von Dreien has made a series of worrying statements on everything from Covid-19 and 5G to European identity. As the cameras rolled, Christina von Dreien sat cross-legged on a large gray sofa, arms folded onto her knees, as if in meditation.
The dark side of open source intelligence - Coda Story
WEBJan 15, 2021 · In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues with passersby outside of a grocery store, defending herself as “a sovereign” and therefore exempt from the law. Following her arrest later that day, internet detectives took matters into ...
Modi wants to export traditional Indian medicine to the world, but ...
WEBNov 2, 2022 · Ayurveda dates back some 4,000 years and its foundational texts emphasize ideas of balance and harmony. While the economic reasons to promote Ayurveda, like yoga, as an Indian gift to the world are apparent, it also fits with the Modi government’s Hindu supremacist agenda and with feeding a sense of grievance that India’s colonial history has meant Indian knowledge systems are frequently ...
The Londoners using face paint to trick facial recognition
WEBJan 23, 2020 · They meet once a month to walk through the city for an hour, wearing face paint to defy dozens of public and private security cameras. Founder Emily Roderick, 24, paints an attendee’s face with blue and black oblongs. “I’m painting his face in a way that would stop facial recognition algorithms from recognizing there’s a face there ...
Iran’s clerics push unproven Islamic Covid cures in a wave of anti ...
WEBApr 6, 2021 · In late January 2020, the Iranian cleric Abbas Tabrizian publicly set fire to a copy of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,” a foundational text for doctors around the world. It was a dramatic gesture to his hostility to modern medicine. The following month, when Covid-19 began to ravage his home city of Qom, he had an immediate alternative remedy.
Charles Rollet, Author at Coda Story
WEBAug 6, 2019 · Charles Rollet. @CharlesRollet1. Charles Rollet covers video surveillance for IPVM. He also contributes to Foreign Policy and Wired. Technology. Influential US scientist under fire for Xinjiang links.
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