There’s a lot of bad science surrounding a syndrome called ME/CFS, or what is sometimes known as chronic fatigue. We talk with David Tuller, a journalist who has been covering this topic for years, about what he’s learned from people who participated in one pseudoscientific treatment that’s now being marketed to people suffering from long Covid. Plus, there’s a lot of misinformation about dieting.

Leaked documents from Facebook give us new insight into the company’s policies towards abuse of public figures — anyone who has over 100k followers, politicians or even people who are infrequently in the news. Plus, we look at privacy concerns around vaccine passports. And we’re going to look a few years down the road at how vaccine certificates could set the stage for future ID systems.

As the controversy over Covid-19 vaccine passports heats up, many of us won’t think twice about handing over proof of vaccination. But these vaccine passports are controversial. Both because some people will be left out if vaccine passports become widely used and because these systems come with privacy concerns. In part one of a two part mini-series on vaccine passports, we dig into the equality challenges surrounding vaccine passports.

Abusers are using Stalkerware and smart homes to abuse domestic violence survivors. Coda reporter Erica Hellerstein looks at how technology opens up new avenues for harassment, intimidation and surveillance. Plus, how much control do you actually have over your health data, especially during the pandemic? During the Covid-19 crisis, we’re sharing things like Covid test results and pre-existing conditions in ways that we may have caused us to pause before the pandemic.

Myanmar’s military has a tight grip on the internet. That has only intensified since the coup in early February. But it wasn’t always like that. The country was once an early example of how the internet could be harnessed for positive change. So how did Myanmar’s internet become such a heavily controlled space? Plus, governments worldwide are using the Covid-19 pandemic to limit free speech and ramp up censorship.

Those in power often control the narrative. In Russia today, there’s a campaign to rewrite how history books remember the Soviet Union. The harsh reality of the Gulags is being glossed over. But survivors are telling their stories. And meanwhile in Brazil, two competing theories about who controls the government are fracturing reality. Watch Coda Story’s Generation Gulag documentary series about survivors of Soviet era atrocities: https://www.codastory.

Why do people turn to pseudoscience and unproven homeopathic remedies? This week, we speak to a former naturopathic turned scientist to talk about why people who are seeking a sense of control over their are drawn to naturopathy. And in Colombia, Covid-19 misinformation is spreading from the cities to the countryside.

Police in Jackson, Mississippi want to take their use of private surveillance to a whole new level and connect residents’ security cameras directly to police. It’s the evolution of a relationship between consumers, private companies like Amazon or Google and law enforcement. And it raises questions about the prevalence of private surveillance tech and who has access to it. Plus, what happens when social media companies like Twitter get annoyed with content moderation.

Doctors try to stem the flood of misinformation on social media. Covid denialists creep closer toward extremism in Germany. And from Poland to Brazil, it has gotten even harder to get a safe and legal abortion during the pandemic.

Ever wished you had another citizenship that would allow you to live in a different country or travel the world without a visa? If you have enough money, that’s entirely possible. But while oligarchs may be able to buy passports from another country, some people who live in Kenya aren’t even able to get documents to prove they’re citizens of the country they were born in. And it means they’re essentially stateless in their own country.