Gautama Mehta

Gautama Mehta

Gautama Mehta is the former reporting fellow at Coda Story.

Disinformation
India milks ‘cow science’ in latest effort to promote nationalism
Authoritarian Technology
Will the Capitol riot change public opinion about facial recognition?
Surveillance and Control
Why Imran Khan’s chemical castration law won’t solve Pakistan’s sexual violence crisis
Disinformation
The creep of pseudohealth into India’s hospitals
Surveillance and Control
Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics
Stay on the story
Left in limbo: a Pakistani man has spent the last month trapped in a Mexican airport
Rewriting History
Hindu nationalists rewrite history in India’s classrooms
Disinformation
Press-and-NGOs-targeted-by-foreign-agent-laws-in-US-and-India
Foreign influence laws wreaking havoc on journalists, professors in India and the US
Newsletters
Infodemic: German drinkers use false names and India’s government claims ignorance on migrant worker deaths
Surveillance and Control
Turkish journalist arrested for tweet making fun of a 13th-century sultan