TED: En uppmaning att stoppa den mediarapportering som alla massmördare vill ha

av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 28, 2022 | TED

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and its nation, reeling. To many — including Tom Teves, who lost his son in the tragedy — the news coverage that followed focused on all the wrong things.

Why did the reporting overwhelmingly fixate on the shooter rather than the lives of the victims or the heroic efforts of first responders? With urgency and measure, Teves calls for responsible media attention that acts in the interest of the public (instead of profit) by revoking what shooters want most: infamy.

TED: Alla dina enheter kan hackas

av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 17, 2022 | TED

Could someone hack your pacemaker? Avi Rubin shows how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able world.

TED: Den gränsöverskridande undersökande journalistikens brottsbekämpande kraft

av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 15, 2022 | TED

Organized crime operates across national borders — to keep up, investigative journalists need to do the same. TED Fellow Bektour Iskender gives the inside scoop on his efforts to unveil secret, insidious operations in his home country of Kyrgyzstan, and how he worked with a team of journalists to uncover corruption and spark a national movement.

He shares three key insights on how global networks of investigative journalists protect the world not just from smugglers and thieves but from dictators and warmongers.

TED: Den förvånande minskningen av våld

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 26, 2022 | TED

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence.