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Natalia Antelava

@antelava.bsky.social
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Journalist. Editor in chief of @codastory.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@volts.wtf? Have I got a palette cleanser for you. "Noise is the new censorship." Words by @antelava.bsky.social on the subject of how authortarians dominate open media and shovel sewage through the information water pipes until nothing is trusted and no conversation can be had.
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Really enlightening. Thanks, @antelava.bsky.social .
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The Werewolf Game: An Interview with Google's Former News Chief Richard Gingras - Coda Story
Richard Gingras spent 15 years shaping Google's relationship with journalism—funding conferences, building friendships, creating dependencies. At a Vienna conference, we asked him to account for the s...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Interview with former Google executive Richard Gingras by @antelava.bsky.social at the International Press Institute is worth your time. Many interesting segments.
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The Werewolf game: an interview with Google's former news chief Richard Gingras - Coda Story
Richard Gingras spent 15 years shaping Google's relationship with journalism—funding conferences, building friendships, creating dependencies. At a Vienna conference, we asked him to account for the s...
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
As Google's news czar Richard Gingras was a hugely influential presence in the conversation over journalism and big tech for 15 years, but he seldom faced more than mildly skeptical questioning. In Vienna last month @antelava.bsky.social flipped the script www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
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The Werewolf game: an interview with Google's former news chief Richard Gingras - Coda Story
Richard Gingras spent 15 years shaping Google's relationship with journalism—funding conferences, building friendships, creating dependencies. At a Vienna conference, we asked him to account for the s...
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Yoeri Albrecht @yoerialbrecht.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Friday 29 Aug at @debalie.bsky.social. Christopher Wylie & @antelava.bsky.social about algorithms & authoritarianism: debalie.nl/programma/ze...
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Resistance in the Age of Algorithms
From the European struggle against algorithmic control to the streets of Tbilisi where protesters face AI-powered surveillance cameras, this event brings together journalists, artists, technologists, ...
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025
“Can I do one more Lebedev?” Paul Caruana Galizia, @edcaesar.bsky.social & @oliverbullough.bsky.social trade anecdotes on Lord of Siberia Evgeny Lebedev: his diets, hobbies, bugbears. Stories of oligarchy must reach a wide audience, says Galizia. To draw people in, start with the absurd. #ZEG2025
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/06/2025
“We relied so heavily on USAID — but every protein bar distributed had to have a US flag? Unshackle us. We’re done. Maybe it’s cleansing time. Either way, now we diversify. And bring in people who are actually interested in the aid, not the PR.” Seema Jilani on the future of aid at #ZEG2025
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/06/2025
Giorgi Gigashvili took us through how classical music is a powerful voice of resilience and defiance for Georgia’s future — where art meets activism. #ZEG2025 #KeysOfDefiance #MusicAsResistance
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025
“Discomfort can be productive.” Dr. Erzsébet Barát on why true solidarity means resisting the urge for easy answers and instead learning to live with the discomfort of ambiguity, vulnerability, and difference in the fight against the patriarchy. #ZEG2025
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/06/2025
“Truth is the friction, the gravity, that allows you to stand up. When there is no truth, the best spectacle wins.” Yale historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social‬, joining #ZEG2025 online, on why truth is democracy’s foundation.
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025
“Not all minds are captured in this country.” @irmadimitradze.bsky.social on the fight for press freedom in Georgia and why it matters far beyond its borders, in conversation with @mariaressa.bsky.social, @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, and @jodieginsberg.bsky.social at #ZEG2025.
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 15/06/2025
“Privacy is the foundation of your ability to craft who you are,” Christopher Wylie on why you should think twice before handing over your data. From "The Elephant in the Algorithm" convo with @aiannucci.bsky.social, Adam Pincus & @alixdunn.com. #ZEG2025
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 13/06/2025
“In Haiti, people are looking for ‘glory days’ — and the glory days [back then] was a dictatorship.” Garry Pierre-Pierre on how authoritarian nostalgia is weaponized at a #ZEG2025 panel alongside @antelava.bsky.social‬ and Jillian Green, moderated by @julieposetti.bsky.social‬ .
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Matt Abrams @mattabrams.org · 23/03/2025
readwise.io/reader/share... @codastory.bsky.social @antelava.bsky.social
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How Democracies Die: The Script for a Three-Act Play | annotated by Matt
In Trump’s America, the plot is starting to seem all too familiar
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Excellent piece by @antelava.bsky.social "And so, when friends ask me 'what do we do,' I tell them: Look to those who’ve been there before. Democracy isn’t saved through grand gestures, but through thousands of small acts of courage." www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 26/03/2025
"Empires collapse from the margins—but they're also built from them. No one knows this better than Putin,” writes @antelava.bsky.social This 2024 piece on Georgia’s elections is key to understanding today’s political crisis. Read for context:
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From the Margins to Power: Georgia’s Elections and the Kremlin’s Empire - Coda Story
Georgia’s Elections, the Kremlin’s Empire, and Lessons for U.S. Democracy
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Looking for something to do this weekend ? Join us for this conversation. I can’t wait! www.eventbrite.com/e/coda-conve...
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Coda Conversations: The Playbook
From Global Patterns to America's New Reality: A Virtual Global Journalism Event in Partnership with ZEG Fest
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Can you guess which Kremlin-linked oligarch is trying to buy RFE/RL? Sign up to our weekly @codastory.bsky.social newsletter to find out www.codastory.com/newsletters/
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It’s like a dream dinner party but on zoom Don’t miss this conversation, register now before we run out of space www.eventbrite.com/e/coda-conve...
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Coda Conversations: The Playbook
From Global Patterns to America's New Reality: A Virtual Global Journalism Event in Partnership with ZEG Fest
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/03/2025
In Oligarchy this week, the number of registered UK companies is down. A baby step towards corporate transparency, given how many shell companies litter the registry, writes @OliverBullough.bsky.social Sign up here
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 18/03/2025
"The path from democracy to autocracy isn't marked by tanks in the streets but by the slow erosion of norms." A powerful perspective from Andrey Babitskiy who's seen this movie before — and knows how it ends.
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The Shadow Puppet: A Russian's Warning about Trump - Coda Story
The US president is not a Kremlin asset. But Americans beware, he and Vladimir Putin are different expressions of the same worldview
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
That’s right. NYT suggesting that this was accidental is ridiculous
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 26/02/2025
While Western governments spent billions on fact-checking, they missed the bigger picture. Putin tapped into genuine grievances about Western hypocrisy. @antelava.bsky.social on how the West lost a war it thought it had won decades ago.
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How the West lost the war it thought it had won - Coda Story
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has reason to celebrate. He has scripted a new ending to the Cold War by exploiting the gap between Western democratic ideals…
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Eva Cukier @evacukier.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Must read, and a big look in the mirror, by Coda Story’s @antelava.bsky.social
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Every headline has a history, every crisis has a pattern. Our Sunday Read newsletter from @codastory.bsky.social (and me) doesn't just tell you what happened this week - it connects it to the stories and patterns we've been tracking for years. Join us: www.codastory.com/newsletters/
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products.

Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.
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Josh Hersh @joshuahersh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"It's not admitting defeat in the war on disinformation. I think he's declaring victory." The great @antelava.bsky.social is my guest The Kicker, talking about Meta's fact-checking change, Trump, and what journalism can hope to achieve in the year ahead podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025
Podcast Episode · The Kicker · 01/14/2025 · 30m
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/01/2025
Silicon Valley has designed a world in which truth is optional, equity is expendable, and facts are toxic waste. Our Editor-in-Chief @antelava.bsky.social on Meta's latest moves and what they reveal about Big Tech's real mission
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The death of truth was by design - Coda Story
Meta and Musk reveal Silicon Valley's real mission: turning truth into a commodity
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/01/2025
NEW: "The Death of Truth Was By Design" Meta kills fact-checking and DEI initiatives in the same week. @antelava.bsky.social on why this isn't just about Trump's return - it's about tech's successful power grab 🧵
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Gian-Paolo Accardo @gpaccardo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
'The global authoritarian playbook is effective because it is so simple. One of its core rules is: use the tools of democracy until you can make them obsolete.' – @antelava.bsky.social on "broligarchy". Brilliant: www.codastory.com/oligarchy/th...
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The Age of Broligarchy - Coda Story
The U.S. Election result marks the start of a new era in global politics. We’re calling it Broligarchy
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 09/01/2025
Who would have imagined the owner of one of the world's largest social networks would be supporting a new international reactionary movement?' -Macron this week Our analysis shows it's not just digital chaos - it's a calculated business strategy. buff.ly/40qeheP
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Musk, Zuck and the business of chaos - Coda Story
Why interfering in European politics and abandoning fact-checks are about the bottom line
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 10/01/2025
"For many young people, the heartache of climate change is slanted toward the years ahead...grieving the potential futures we could have had." www.codastory.com/climate-cris...
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Grieving California on the frontlines of the climate crisis - Coda Story
Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires.
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 10/01/2025
As California burns again, a look back at how fire transforms us. @ehellerstein.bsky.social on climate, loss, and what remains👇🏼 www.codastory.com/climate-cris...
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Grieving California on the frontlines of the climate crisis - Coda Story
Stepping out from charred homes and streets, Californians fight for a state of mind that will survive a future of endless fires.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Sunday Coda Live event, on what connects so much in the current upheaval, from Damascus, Tbilisi, Kyiv & more with @antelava.bsky.social @edwardlucas.bsky.social @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social @codastory.bsky.social @ozkaterji.bsky.social & others more www.eventbrite.com/e/coda-live-...
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Deserved in every way for stellar reporting, professionalism & extraordinarycourage. @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social გილოცავ!!!
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“First, I was protesting with my friends, but I wanted to do more.” Meet Nestan, 14 year old documenting the Georgia protests. So much wisdom and such incredible images. So proud that we get to publish it Follow @codastory.bsky.social for more coverage www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
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I’m 14, photographing the violent protests in Georgia. The EU dream is slipping away - Coda Story
Nestan is a 14-year old Georgian high school student who has spent nearly a year photographing demonstrations in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since the Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, announced that ...
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 03/12/2024
Join Coda’s Editor-in-Chief @antelava.bsky.social and Harvard Kennedy School’s Matthew Baum for How (Not) to Cover Lies: Lessons from Georgia. Explore how disinformation, polarization, & populist autocracy, shaped in Georgia, impact societies worldwide. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-not-to...
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Julie Posetti @julieposetti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
@antelava.bsky.social @mariaressa.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Peter is on fire 🔥 In Johannesburg
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 20/11/2024
In music, “Coda” is a passage that helps define the whole composition. In journalism, Coda Story aims to be that defining voice that punches through the noise of our lives, helping you make sense of the world. To get to know us, check out these stories 👇🏽
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 20/11/2024
In many ways, Russian colonialism is the most helpful frame for understanding Georgia’s current struggle. In this essay, Coda’s @antelava.bsky.social explores the price her country paid for the West’s failure to label Russia’s behaviour as a form of colonialism. www.codastory.com/stayonthesto...
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When sameness becomes a colonial tool of oppression
Former Soviet Republics have a lot in common with countries that have struggled against Western colonialism. So why don't we tend to see Russia as a colonizer?
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Coming up on @codastory.bsky.social: Nukes sabre-rattling, Musk “inspiration porn” & the unraveling war over VPNs. s/outs @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @404media.co @emroth08.bsky.social @shantidas.bsky.social @adamnsmith.bsky.social @samdelouya.bsky.social Sign up www.codastory.com/newsletters/
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Coming up in Coda's newsletter: Nuclear sabre-rattling, Musk “inspiration porn” & the unraveling war over VPNs (+ why it matters). With shout outs to: @Melaniegouby @jason_koebler @404mediaco @emroth08 @shanti_das @adamndsmith @samdelouya Sign up here: www.codastory.com/newsletters
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Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
this is excellent -- how to get sub-threshold defence/deterrence in the Baltics (and avoid WW3) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reassessing NATO’s deterrence and defence posture in the Baltics: rebalancing strategic priorities to counter Russian hybrid aggression
Russia's full-scale (re)invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 has energised longstanding security concerns of the Baltic states. To ensure their security, NATO implemented an enhanced Forward P...
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What Donald Trump Owes to George Soros In which Matt Janney and I hang out with Steve Bannon, a high priest of the far right, who tells us George Soros gave him a model to follow
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What Donald Trump owes to George Soros
Steve Bannon, a high priest of the far right movement that put Trump in the White House, says Soros gave him the model to follow
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Djordje Padejski @padejski.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you're new to @bsky.app, here's a starter pack with awesome journalists to follow, John S. Knight Journalism Fellows/Alumni at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social. Shoutout to @dansinker.com for putting it together! go.bsky.app/7oV5Try
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Mike Johnson is a visual metaphor for the GOP
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A very consequential bill is being considered by the House of Representatives in the U.S. And yet, it is getting no attention from the media. We are following the story in our weekly newsletter. Sign up here: www.codastory.com/newsletters
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Natalia Antelava @antelava.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I guess here I am ... the photo seems appropriate...
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