# How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

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Podcast: [The Kicker](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064)
Published: 2025-12-16T19:00:00+00:00
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When Natalia Antelava cofounded Coda Story, in early 2016, to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a big part of the story. It wasn’t only that autocratic regimes were benefiting from compliant Silicon Valley companies. By launching a new media organization, Antelava also discovered how entangled journalism itself had become with some of the same companies, which proclaimed their commitment to a free press while quietly cozying up to...

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