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Panel: Tracking Dictators, Diving For Leaks & Opening up Sensative Data

Release Date: 10/28/2019

Corruption Unveiled: Julian Hessenthaler & Frederik Obermaier · #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime

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Corruption Unveiled: Austria's Troublesome Path from Strache to Kurz From . Julian Hessenthaler, the private detective who set the trap for Strache and triggered the "Ibiza affair," delves into the issues of power and abuse of power in the state of Austria with Frederik Obermaier one of the journalists to whom he leaked the video. In 2019, a scandal rocked Austrian politics as journalists from Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed a secretly recorded video featuring Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the far-right FPÖ. In the video, he offered state contracts...

Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism & Longtermism

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Philosopher Émile P. Torres takes you on a journey through the surreal and very influential techno-utopian – and dystopian - philosophies and ideologies of Silicon Valley billionaires and leaders. Recorded at a meet-up and workshop curated by Sabina Barcucci. Read more about the meet-up here: . Our next conference is Organised Crime: A Global Business, Nov 24–26 2023: . Become a menber: dnlb.org/join More events and resources at Join our Telegram Group for Berlin event updates: Follow us:

Sharon K. Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China)

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Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US).

Are Kleptocrats the big winners of Covid-19?

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Award-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. He shared his experience on the topic on how the crisis has helped to break down defences against kleptocracy. What can we learn about the response to the pandemic and the structures that allow the transnational kleptocracy to thrive, what are our strategies to hold power to account and could the post-pandemic future look brighter?

Whistleblowing during Covid-19

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Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell & Rima Sghaier discuss the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and discusses the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic.

THE Q IN QONSPIRACY

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In this conversation between Wu Ming 1 and Florian Cramer, QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer culture, they will focus on three conspiracy narratives: "The Great Replacement", QAnon and "The Great Reset".

WHISTLEBLOWING & COVID-19

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This keynote conversation brings together Eileen Chubb, a former care assistant in the UK who became a whistleblower and later a campaigner, and Erika Cheung, one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal and today co-founder and executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship.

JULIAN ASSANGE: A statement by Jennifer Robinson

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JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown

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This panel brings together four experts in the field of technology, human rights, investigative journalism and law to address the importance of transparency, government accountability and media freedom through the case and the present conditions of Julian Assange.

Voice of Care: Helen O’Connor

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Helen O’Connor, National Health Service nurse in the United Kingdom for many years and today GMB NHS Union Organiser will give a critical perspective on the UK health care system and the measures that need to be taken to protect the rights of the workers, rather than allowing private companies to profit, in order to help resolve the pandemic and future public health emergencies.

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CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 3 The 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab TRACKING DICTATORS, DIVING FOR LEAKS & OPENING UP SENSITIVE DATA Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY), Natalie Sedletska (Investigative Reporter & TV Host, UA), Brennan Novak & M C McGrath (Transparency Toolkit, US/DE). Moderated by Shannon Cunningham (Freelance Investigative Journalist, US/DE). This panel focuses on the connection between grassroots investigations and data analysis, and how it is possible to make sensitive data accessible without restriction and open them to the public, facilitating the publication of large datasets. Referring to the collaboration between investigative journalists, "citizen journalists", and the "open-source intelligence" community, Emmanuel Freudenthal will present the methodology of acquiring information behind Dictator Alert – a Twitter bot that tracks the planes of authoritarian regimes installing ADS-B antennas – reflecting on the pros and cons of experimenting with a more "objective" type of information.M C McGrath and Brennan Novak (Transparency Toolkit) will focus on how the tools they are building enable anyone to publish data in searchable archives and sort through large datasets, even without many resources or technical skills, making the publishing of a large sets of documents more accessible to activists and citizen journalists – where previously only large coalitions of media organizations with particularly good technical resources could setup something like this. Furthermore, the panel reflects on the use and impact of open information, and the possibilities for people to contribute a greater variety of insights over time, and the difficultues of relying only on media outlets or single journalists to write the first story, which is often a very hard and complex activity in the case of large datasets. https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizens-of-evidence Photo credit: Elena Veronese Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com

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