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Hera Rizwan
Hera Rizwan is a correspondent with Decode. She covers AI, technology, and accountability, with a focus on how digital systems shape welfare, governance, and public life in India. Her work examines the real-world impact of emerging technologies, from biometric systems and surveillance tools to platform-driven scams and digital policy. She has reported extensively on cybercrime, AI in welfare delivery, and the intersection of tech and democracy. She is a Pulitzer Grantee and won Ramnath Goenka Award for Investigative Reporting in 2022.
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How a conflict halfway across the world has made an already brutal job almost impossible for food delivery workers.
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Decode spoke to Dr Shaanan Cohney to understand how Moltbook works, why its bots can seem eerily human, and what that...
Decode found that X’s AI chatbot Grok enabled the targeting of minorities, where vague prompts like “remove the...
Decode found that several creators defending the now-stayed Supreme Court order were managed by the same influencer...











