Marwa Fatafta on AI & Warfare in Gaza
Disruption Network Lab
How can we ensure the dystopian tech-enabled violence we are witnessing in Gaza is neither normalized nor harnessed in future armed conflicts? Marwa Fatafta discusses the technologies used by Israel in Gaza and the role of tech companies. Marwa leads Access Now’s policy and advocacy work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read more at Organised in collaboration with Untold Stories / Untold Mag: Don't miss our conference Investigating the Kill Cloud: Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI, Nov 29–Dec 1 in Berlin: See you there!
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Corruption Unveiled: Julian Hessenthaler & Frederik Obermaier · #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime
Disruption Network Lab
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...
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Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism & Longtermism
Disruption Network Lab
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:
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Sharon K. Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China)
Disruption Network Lab
Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US).
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Are Kleptocrats the big winners of Covid-19?
Disruption Network Lab
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?
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Whistleblowing during Covid-19
Disruption Network Lab
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.
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THE Q IN QONSPIRACY
Disruption Network Lab
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".
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WHISTLEBLOWING & COVID-19
Disruption Network Lab
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.
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JULIAN ASSANGE: A statement by Jennifer Robinson
Disruption Network Lab
JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown
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JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown
Disruption Network Lab
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.
info_outlineIn major cities across the world local working and middle class citizens are being pushed out of their very own homes – because living in them has become unaffordable. Join us for a discussion between PUSH: the film director Fredrik Gertten and activist Leilani Farha on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on real estate speculation and eviction.