Episodes

  • Trailer: Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants, and Us.

    Trailer: Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants, and Us.
    Dec 16 2022

    Natalia Antelava, co-founder of Coda Story, brings stories of people from around the world whose lives were turned upside down when digital technology collided with the tyrants. Tech is reshaping the age-old struggle for democracy - but is it more useful to dictators, or the people trying to take them down?
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  • Escaping China’s Surveillance Net

    Escaping China’s Surveillance Net
    Jan 5 2023
    A young man is detained by police in China’s Xinjiang region, and stumbles on an unlikely means of escape. He double-crosses his interrogators and runs as far as he can -all the way to the frozen Arctic. But will he ever really be free from China’s surveillance web? Even in his new home in northern Norway, the eyes of the Chinese state are never far away.
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    43 mins
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  • Tech and the Taliban

    Tech and the Taliban
    Jan 5 2023
    Smartphones and mainstream apps power a volunteer team racing against the clock to help Afghans leave the country before the Taliban takes over. For those left behind, those who opposed the Taliban, how do they stay safe? Because this Taliban regime is very different from the one that ruled 20 years ago. This one uses social media and biometric databases.
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    42 mins
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  • Russia’s Leaky Databases

    Russia’s Leaky Databases
    Jan 5 2023
    In 2021, Russia’s main opposition is using digital technology to challenge Putin’s government as never before. It’s building databases of supporters to help further the cause, just like political organizations the world over. But then, those supporters start getting visits from the police.
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    41 mins
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  • Thailand: The Genie Escapes

    Thailand: The Genie Escapes
    Jan 5 2023
    In Thailand there’s one subject that’s been taboo for decades: the Thai Royal Family. So how do the authorities react when the topic appears on social media, and the genie is out of the bottle? And what does that have to do with the disappearance of a social media activist in neighboring Cambodia?
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    39 mins
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  • Silencing India’s Critics

    Silencing India’s Critics
    Jan 5 2023
    Police say they’ve uncovered a plot that implicates some of India’s most distinguished lawyers, intellectuals, and activists in a conspiracy to bring down the government. Central to the case are letters they’ve found on a laptop belonging to one of the suspects. But how - and why - did the letters get onto that laptop? When US-based forensic investigators take a look they’re shocked at what they discover.
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    35 mins
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  • Telegram vs The Dictator

    Telegram vs The Dictator
    Jan 5 2023
    In 2020, the President of Belarus has his back to the wall. Hundreds of thousands of protestors are on the streets in demonstrations that are amplified and coordinated via a messaging app - Telegram. The regime shuts off the internet, but even that can’t stop the "Telegram revolution". So what’s the next move for Europe’s last dictator?
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    40 mins
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  • The Data Trap

    The Data Trap
    Jan 5 2023
    When US sheriff’s deputies keep turning up at his house, a father in Florida can’t figure out why they’re so interested in his teenage son. Before long, the whole family is caught up in the local sheriff’s ‘data driven policing’ program.
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    37 mins
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