The internet is, as we currently know it, is in the midst of a crucial pivot. For much of the past decade, online life has been dominated by a handful of powerful social media platforms–walled garde...
Isobel Cockerell
Isobel Cockerell is Senior Reporter at Coda Story covering disinformation, the war on science and authoritarian technology. She has also written and worked as a radio reporter and video journalist covering politics, migration, LGBTQ issues, environmental affairs and culture for platforms such as WIRED, The Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, USA Today, Rappler and Eurasianet. Recent stories have been on how Uyghurs were bussed across China to work in forced labor factories during the coronavirus lockdown, how anti-vaccine disinformation spreads and targets young women, how fake cures for Covid-19 have become an epidemic of their own, and how Russian disinformation targets US-owned biolabs.
She won the 2020 European Press Prize Distinguished Reporting Award for a multimedia project she reported and produced in collaboration with WIRED on Uyghur women fighting a digital resistance against China’s surveillance. She is the founder and producer of Coda LIVE, a new-format live journalism show bringing stories from all over the world to the stage, using audio and video elements in tandem with narrative storytelling.
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