Isobel Cockerell

Isobel Cockerell

Senior Reporter
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Isobel Cockerell is a senior reporter with Coda. She joined Coda in 2018 after graduating from Columbia Journalism School. She writes about historical reckonings, dystopia, surveillance, conspiracies and climate. She was nominated for the 2023 Orwell prize and was the winner of the 2020 European Press Prize.

Rewriting History
The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini’s farmland
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From Poland to Rwanda to America, reproductive rights are being decimated
Surveillance and Control
Europe’s borders are a surveillance testing ground. The AI Act could change that
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Plans for a more walkable, bikeable Oxford anger conspiracy theorists
Polarization
Russia spent years courting the Christian right. With the war in Ukraine, has the alliance faltered?
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Turkey-Syria earthquake was made in Alaska, say conspiracists
Surveillance and Control
In a cashless society, banking and tech elites control everything
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BBC platforms anti-vaccine scaremonger
Authoritarian Technology
Be real or be stalked? Privacy pitfalls of Gen-Z’s favorite app 
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Polish women face jail for abortion pills, anti-vax scientists rake it in on Substack, AI chatbot’s papers fool academics