Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Nic Dawes20 Apr 2026
In 2016, when Peter Thiel killed Gawker, he insisted that he wasn’t attacking journalism writ large.
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top 83%An endless purgatory: How an exiled Iranian waits and watches - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Mark Sigetty Bøje16 Apr 2026
“They’re shooting smoke at protesters.” “They broke doors.” “They brought an armored vehicle.” In Aarhus, Denmark, Hemad Nazari lay in bed, refreshing his phone.
The performative war on money laundering - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough8 Apr 2026
The performative war on money laundering Dutch friends like to tell me that their nation’s primary characteristic is bluntness, and the Netherlands’ Court of Audit has done nothing to challenge the...
Exiled at midnight - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Matthew Janney7 Apr 2026
On the night of January 16, 2024, Egana Djabbarova was awoken by her wife and told that she needed to leave the country immediately.
How much longer will Orbán be Putin and Trump’s man in Brussels? - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Ines Vilares3 Apr 2026
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, faces an election dogfight. Behind in the polls, he has been effectively endorsed by both the Kremlin and the White House, and a host of...
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough1 Apr 2026
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy It’s good to celebrate the wins, and I’m delighted the British government has decided to cap political donations from voters overseas at 100,000 pounds...
Memeification and digital slop: AI and the fog of war - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Nic Dawes30 Mar 2026
A funny thing happened on the day OpenAI announced it was shutting down Sora, its video generation app: Iran went all in on synthetic propaganda and very quickly started winning the global meme...