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Coda Story

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Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit, such as the abuse of new technologies, the rise of oligarchy and the manipulation of scientific fact.

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1/ How to sell a newspaper to the ruling elites? @simonallison.bsky.social, took a walk in New York City and counted 121 surveillance cameras. While the ruling classes might be watching us, we’re watching them, too. Everyone should read from the same page. Also the people in power.

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2/ Want to meet the newsroom? Join us tomorrow at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT / 6 PM CET / 7 PM CAT for a first look at our next, unpublished issue: Atlas 006. Everyone’s welcome. Even the ruling elites. atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

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1/ Egypt is in the spotlight this week: President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is busy curbing local independent press, entangling himself in foreign conflicts and, by 2030, finding a successor among hand-picked candidates. Take a closer look in this week’s Coda Currents.

codastory.comIn Egypt, the government has seized a newsroom - Coda StoryFrom the lobby of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate building, an editor explains why she and her fellow journalists must either resist the detention of six young colleagues — or lose the last remaini...

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1/ A new worker-led report warns AI is making work worse and calls for worker-centric rules. In 2023 we met the Nairobi content moderators who screened the worst of Facebook and TikTok for as little as $1.46 an hour, then took Meta to court.

codastory.comIn Nairobi’s Silicon Savanna, African workers are taking on Big Tech - Coda StoryContent moderators for TikTok, Meta and ChatGPT are demanding that tech companies reckon with the human toll of their enterprise.

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1/ Librarians across the U.S. are facing threats, harassment, and pressure to quit for defending access to books on race, gender, and sexuality. As censorship campaigns grow, the fight over book bans is becoming a key front in America’s culture wars.

codastory.comAmerica’s culture war targets librarians - Coda StoryLibrarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch.

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1/ Delhi police says it uses AI and surveillance tech to maintain law and order in the city. But as protests mount in India’s capital, the tools are increasingly used to keep dissenters at bay.

codastory.comIn Modi’s India, somebody is always watching - Coda StoryFaced with waves of student protests, the Indian government is using surveillance technology and AI to stamp out dissent.

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The Atlas, Issue 5, Page 21-24. Editor's note: The best photo essays, like this one from Johannesburg by Paul Botes, take you inside rooms that you never even knew existed. theatlasnewspaper.org

Join us online on October 28 at 10AM PT - 1PM ET - 5PM GMT - 6PM CET - 7PM CAT for a first look at our next, unpublished issue 006. Meet the team behind the newspaper, see how the issue came together. Free to attend: atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

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What's worth keeping a record of? We're asking writers, artists, and thinkers about the places, meals, and memories that shaped them, for a new series: The Historical Record. We asked Bao Nguyen, the award-winning Vietnamese-American filmmaker and director of "The Stringer". theatlasnewspaper.org

1/ While international media attention is fixed on the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, three pivotal democracies — India, South Africa and Brazil — are quietly facing political crises of their own. See the full picture in this week's Coda Currents.

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1/ A lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has died in undisclosed circumstances, and dozens of people are in quarantine. We reported on the Kansas lab built to house some of the world’s most dangerous pathogens.

codastory.comThe future home of the world's most dangerous pathogens - Coda StoryNBAF, a new USDA lab housing the world's most potent viruses, has raised safety questions and unleashed a torrent of fear that its staff must now combat.

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It’s never been more important to cut through the noise and make sure crucial stories shaping our world don't disappear from headlines. Help us stay on the story. Donate to Coda today.

codastory.comSupport Coda - Coda StoryBecome part of a global community crafting spaces for stories that connect us In an age where algorithms divide and noise drowns truth, we’re building something fundamentally different: a cross-border...

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Last year, Kimbal Musk (Elon's younger brother) flew 3,000 drones over the Vatican. Meanwhile, behind closed doors in Vatican City, Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell and Yuval Noah Harari were among those debating how humans and AI might coexist. theatlasnewspaper.org

1/ Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso is an autocrat accused of crimes against humanity, yet his image across the continent is carefully honed to suit the algorithmic age.

codastory.comThe cyber-fueled cult of Ibrahim Traoré - Coda StoryFighting to contain an Islamist insurgency, while asserting national pride, is the military leader of Burkina Faso a messiah of the algorithm?

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1/ “The boys have gone extinct.” In Kukës, Albania, TikTok glamorizes life in the U.K. while smugglers exploit the dream. Families split, streets fall silent, and an algorithm pushes a generation to leave.

codastory.comThe Albanian town that TikTok emptied - Coda Story“It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media

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The Atlas Editor-in-Chief @simonallison.bsky.social went all the way to Times Square to invite you to our launch... ...and on October 28th, he’ll be live on Zoom to lead an editorial meeting on the next, unpublished issue of The Atlas, and you're invited. atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

1/ In Denmark, hackers accessed millions of citizens' civil registration numbers. The biggest cyberattack in the country's history is part of a larger pattern across Europe. Take a look at the pattern, flagged by Coda’s monitoring system, in this week's Coda Currents.

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From a "best dressed" contest in Johannesburg to blackouts in Havana: every issue of The Atlas features a photo series that captures life in one corner of the world. Atlas Launch event online, Oct 28, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 6PM CET. atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

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The Atlas, Issue 5, Page 3. Editor's note: A newspaper called The Atlas needs a great map. Ours is also our contents page, showing where in the world we are reporting from each week. The map is designed according to the Equal Earth Projection, by illustrator Yemsrach Yetneberk.

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The Atlas, Issue 5, Page 2. Editor's note: Our ad for The Atlas launch event. Join us online on Wednesday, October 28 for an exclusive first look at the newest, unpublished issue of The Atlas. Free to attend, all readers welcome. Register to join, atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

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The Atlas, Issue 5, Page 1. The cover is the highest-stakes page of any newspaper. It's the first impression. Words, images and the cover story itself all have to come together. Get it right, and it's iconic. Get it wrong and no one reads all the great journalism inside.

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Join us online on October 28 at 10AM PT - 1PM ET - 5PM GMT - 6PM CET - 7PM CAT for a first look at our next, unpublished issue 6. Meet the team behind the newspaper, see how the issue came together. Free to attend:

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1/ Russia wants us to be all the same. No love, no education, no future, no choices." Before 2022, Oleksandr Techynskyi was an award-winning filmmaker. Now he drives foreign journalists across Ukraine and photographs the war from inside the car.

codastory.comA Ukrainian filmmaker photographs a sinister landscape - Coda StoryWhen Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Techynskyi quickly moved his wife and two teenage daughters out of the country and took a job translating for a...

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1/ Brazil votes Sunday in its most consequential election in years: Lula da Silva vs. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former president. The outcome could decide whether Brazil joins Trump's "Shield of the Americas". This week's Coda Currents breaks down the signals.

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1/ Behind every AI breakthrough, there are hidden workers in Kenya’s slums enduring trauma to train the tech we use every day, often for just $1 an hour. This piece exposes the human cost of Silicon Valley’s AI revolution.

codastory.comIn Kenya’s slums, they’re doing our digital dirty work - Coda StoryBig Tech makes promises about our gleaming AI future, but its models are built on the backs of underpaid workers in Africa

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If you read The Atlas, you know the artwork is one of the best things about each issue. Join our team online on Oct 28 (10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 6PM CET/ 7PM CAT) for a first look at our next, unpublished issue. Free to register: atlaslaunch.eventbrite.com?aff=bluesky

1/ How do viral images from conflict zones shape — and sometimes shatter — the lives of those pictured? In Kashmir, the internet ensures that trauma endures long after headlines fade. Read how: ‘I cannot hide’:

codastory.com‘I cannot hide’: Viral photos from Kashmir conflict haunt subjects for yearsFor civilians in South Asia’s longest-running conflict, online images have grave consequences

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It's World News Day. Here's what The Atlas is doing to support independent journalism. With the money donated to The Atlas we've subscribed and donated to @himalsouthasian.bsky.social, The Republic, HumAngle, and Egab — newsrooms doing work we trust, in places the international press often skips.

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Our reasons for subscribing to other outlets are in the latest issue, The Atlas 005. We live in the same world. Let's read from the same page. Subscribe to The Atlas. theatlasnewspaper.org

theatlasnewspaper.orgThe AtlasNavigate the new world order with The Atlas. Published by Coda Story and The Continent. Free for humans.

1/ He was 16 when he fled Xinjiang. He spent nearly 4 years in a Thai jail, and escaped by digging through the wall with a spoon and a rusty nail. His story is a reminder of what China's surveillance reach actually threatens.

codastory.comEscaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail - Coda StoryHow one Uyghur man fled Xinjiang via the notorious smugglers' road and broke out of a Thai prison.

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What shall we pray to, if Silicon Valley evangelists team up with the Vatican and promote coexistence with AI? Find out more in the latest issue of The Atlas — fresh off the press and sent directly to your inbox today.

It’s never been more important to cut through the noise and make sure crucial stories shaping our world don't disappear from headlines. Help us stay on the story. Donate to Coda today.

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1/ The US just confirmed it has weapons in orbit. Space isn't just a battlefield now, it's also the next frontier for Silicon Valley's biggest egos. We reported on the sci-fi fantasies driving Musk's Mars ambitions.

codastory.comSilicon Valley’s sci-fi dreams of colonizing Mars - Coda StoryIt was a late spring evening in Devon, England, in May 2021. Even before we saw the satellites, the party had become surreal: it was one of the first gatherings in the region since the pandemic had be...

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Who builds the systems through which reality is organised, distributed and trusted? Join @codastory.com + @thecontinent.org for an exclusive first look at the new, unpublished issue of The Atlas — and a conversation about journalism in an age of algorithms, propaganda, and AI noise.

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