How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
The Kicker16 Joulu 2025

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

When Natalia Antelava cofounded Coda Story, in early 2016, to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a big part of the story. It wasn’t only that autocratic regimes were benefiting from compliant Silicon Valley companies. By launching a new media organization, Antelava also discovered how entangled journalism itself had become with some of the same companies, which proclaimed their commitment to a free press while quietly cozying up to...

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Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

On Thursday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring federal agents from using riot control measures like tear gas to disperse journalists seeking to cover protests outside the Br...

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Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes

Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes

In 2017, Elle Reeve, then a correspondent for Vice News, became a household name when she reported from the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia—as neo-Nazis marched with burning torch...

19 Syys 202536min

Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously

Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously

Last week, as DC reporters were patting themselves on the back for not falling for internet falsehoods claiming that Donald Trump had secretly died, Garrett Graff wrote an essay on his blog, Doomsday ...

10 Syys 202527min

Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe

Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe

Earlier this month, Hind Hassan, a decorated documentary news reporter who has covered everything from conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine to the bizarre underworld of the global wellness industry...

28 Elo 202528min

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

For the past few weeks, MAGA media and conservative podcasters have been torn apart over President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at Mother Jones, joins T...

1 Elo 202524min

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

Recent weeks have not been very comfortable for the BBC. A documentary about Gaza it refused to broadcast was aired instead by a competitor, to critical acclaim. A livestream of the Glastonbury Festiv...

11 Heinä 202526min

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

Last year, Branko Brkic, the founder of the Daily Maverick, a South African news outlet, left his day job to launch an advocacy campaign in defense of journalism. Called Project Kontinuum, the organiz...

25 Kesä 202541min

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza

For nearly twenty years, Arwa Damon worked as a journalist covering conflict zones across the Middle East—much of it as a prominent correspondent for CNN. But in 2015, amid the unending horrors of th...

24 Kesä 202524min

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