Examining the intersection of politics, technology, and society, Disruption Network Lab exposes the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful. Disruption Network Lab is an ongoing platform of events and research focused on the intersection of politics, technology and society. We are a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation in Germany (Disruption Network Lab e. V.) that has since 2014 organised participatory, interdisciplinary, international events at the intersection of human rights and technology…
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Upcoming Conference: 'Exposing Crimes is not a Crime: The Real-World Consequences of WikiLeaks', March 19–22 2025, Berlin - follow us for tickets and news! This episode: Techno-Policing & Civic Control With: Sonja Peteranderl (Investigative Journalist, Founder of BuzzingCities Lab, DE) and Matthias Monroy (Journalist, Activist, Expert on Civil Rights, Policing, and Security Technologies, DE). This…
Upcoming Conference: Shadows of Illiberalism , June 13–15 2025, Berlin This episode: Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbanisation of Europe With: Péter Adamik and Sára Szedlár (Freie Ungarische Botschaft, HU/DE). Two activists from the Berlin-based Hungarian expat organisation Freie Ungarische Botschaft (Free Hungarian Embassy) will give an overview of how Viktor Orbán's…
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 https://dnlb.org/perfectstorm…
Corruption Unveiled: Austria's Troublesome Path from Strache to Kurz From #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime . Watch this talk and others here 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…
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: https://dnlb.org/torres . Our next conference is Organised Crime: A Global Business, Nov 24–26 2023:…
Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US). Moderated by Magnus Ag (Journalist, Human Rights Advocate, Founder of Bridge Figures, DK/NO). In recent decades, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has increasingly challenged international human rights norms and values and aggressively promoted its alternative models for human rights, development, and even, as it claims, "democracy."…
Award-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. Across the world, we've seen dramatic increases in government spending, logistical obstacles for watchdogs monitoring kleptocratic financial flows, and a ready-made excuse for restrictions on freedom of movement... and political protest. In our…
Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell & Rima Sghaier discuss the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic. The work of whistleblowers is central to denounce power violations and to protect the most vulnerable sectors of our society, but also whistleblowers are people at risk. They are subjects of repression and opposition before and after blowing…
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…
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. The conversation is based on two important experiences of raising concerns in the healthcare field, wants to…
