#investigative-journalism — Public Fediverse posts

Scahill spent years in conflict zones gathering these stories. The result is hard to read and hard to forget.
#books #bookreview #InvestigativeJournalism #DroneWarfare
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/dirty-wars-book-review/

NiemanLab: When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data. “Reporters covering the invasion of Ukraine have frequently worked with documents pulled from Russian institutions by hackers of different allegiances. Hacktivists have breached surveillance vendors and spyware firms, granting journalists direct and exclusive access to the internal files of companies that […]

https://www.europesays.com/africa/487027/ In From Morocco for Fentanyl of 3 with Russian and Chinese Interpreters Lead Defendant Pleads #Abkhazia #CivilRights #congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomOfInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #Morocco #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #Somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #Unicef #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme

If ITV were going to film Zia’s Reform colleagues being racist, they might have asked first
By John Crace

The channel really ought to have written to him personally, asking permission to expose racist and misogynist views in his party

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/22/itv-undercover-journalists-reform-uk-zia-yusuf

#ReformUK #ITV #Investigativejournalism #Farright #Television #UKnews #TheGuardian #JohnCrace

Staten Island Pizza Fight Veers into Demand for Passports in EDNY Breaking Bread Case https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/43769/ #Abkhazia #CivilRights #Congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomOfInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #Pizzeria #Pizzerias #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #Somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #UNICEF #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme

@ProPublica @Theintercept @eff @npr

#Whistleblower #WhistleblowerProtection #LaborRights #CorporateEthics #InvestigativeJournalism #FreePress

https://www.europesays.com/videos/115936/ EU prize awards probe into rights abuses at Italy’s migrant hub #Albania #DaphneCaruana #Euronews #EuropeanUnion #InvestigativeJournalism #Italy #Migration

https://www.europesays.com/videos/115920/ EU prize awards probe into rights abuses at Italy’s migrant hub #Albania #DaphneCaruana #Euronews #EuropeanUnion #InvestigativeJournalism #Italy #Migration

Signal Cleveland: New tool lets Clevelanders search police discipline cases. “For years, Cleveland police discipline records have been public – technically. But in practice, they have been difficult to access, search or analyze. The records exist across thousands of pages of hearing notices, disciplinary decisions and arbitration records that have never been assembled into a single public […]

I'm so old now even I remember when Google (ALPHABET) was just registered in the Bahama's because tax evasion..

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?q=Alphabet&c=&j=&d= #opendata #investigativejournalism

AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
By Carine Fouteau

Tech platforms pillage public-interest journalism for profit. But we have leverage as they sow the seeds of their own downfall

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/16/ai-existential-threat-real-journalism-democracy-resistance

#AIartificialintelligence #Technology #Europe #Worldnews #Media #Investigativejournalism #Digitalmedia #Publicservicereporting #OpenAI #TheGuardian #CarineFouteau

I'm looking for folks to test out a deep investigative tool. If you work in #OSINT, #journalism, #ediscovery, or something adjacent, I'd love to talk to you. Just reach out here privately 🔍

#research #civictech #datajournalism #investigativejournalism

How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
By Mark Townsend

Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/oct/14/europes-most-wanted-cocaine-trafficker-sierra-leone-crime-drugs-narco-state

#Globaldevelopment #SierraLeone #Netherlands #Drugs #Drugstrade #Drugspolicy #Africa #Europe #Society #Worldnews #Organisedcrime #Investigativejournalism #Police #UKnews #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #UnitedNations #Guncrime #TheGuardian #MarkTownsend

🚨🤖 #Bloomberg, the bastion of hard-hitting journalism, serves up a #Kafkaesque tale of the CFTC's attempt to rewrite reality, but first, prove you're not a robot! 🤔 Ah, nothing like investigative journalism held hostage by a #CAPTCHA. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran #CFTC #InvestigativeJournalism #HackerNews #ngated

https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/38490/ Instagram #AccountabilityInLawEnforcement #Camden #CamdenCountySheriff #CommunitySafety #CrimeNews #CrimeWatchAtlanta #CriminalInvestigation #GeorgiaNews #GeorgiaSheriff #InvestigativeJournalism #LawEnforcementAccountability #LawEnforcementPolicy #LawEnforcementStandards #LawEnforcementTransparency #LocalNews #PoliceReform #PublicSafety #PublicTrust #SheriffKevinChaney #SheriffsOffice #SheriffsOfficeReform #wsbtv

This is a really sloppy piece of #journalism from #TheGuardian if you can even call it that. All they do is give a gigantic platform to #Trump's allegations against #IlhanOmar by repeating them verbatim, entirely unchallenged. Either you do actual #investigativejournalism and prove the allegations right (she married her brother etc...) or you just shut up and instead document the actual piece of #news which is the illegal search of her home.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/12/federal-agents-ilhan-omar-home-raid

I just listened to a Power User episode on surveillance creeping into your neighborhood 🎙️

Taylor Lorenz interviews Dave Maass (EFF) about AI spy towers, hidden license plate readers, and military surveillance tech moving from the border into domestic US cities.

What starts as "border security" becomes infrastructure for tracking ordinary people—protesters, immigrants, anyone. Learn how these systems work, who accesses the data, and what communities are doing about it.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/power-user/episodes/AI-Spy-Towers-And-Mass-Surveillance-Tech-Coming-To-Your-Town-Next-e3q6v3j

#Surveillance #Privacy #CivilLiberties #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights #FreedomOfMovement #PrivacyMatters #InvestigativeJournalism #DefendPrivacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Flock #ICE

https://www.europesays.com/britain/140345/ Channel 4’s Dispatches lifts the lid on Britain’s Gaza Secrets, but questions remain – AOAV Channel 4 Dispatches reveals Britain’s Gaza secrets #Accountability #Britain #Britain’sGazaSecrets #BritishGovernment #Channel4 #CivilianCasualties #Dispatches #ForeignOffice #Gaza #HumanRights #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #InvestigativeJournalism #israel #IsraelGazaWar #palestine #UKArmsExports #UkForeignPolicy #WarCrimes

No criminal charges. No institutional accountability. So survivors built their own databases — at Cornell and inside churches. Becky Garrison tracks both movements.

https://onlys.ky/cornell-7/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh

#SexualAbuse #ChurchToo #Accountability #SurvivorJustice #InvestigativeJournalism

"We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets, join together to condemn the escalating crackdown on independent Egyptian investigative journalism platform Matsadaash, which now includes the arrest of six journalists, constituting the entirety of the newsroom.

Late into the evening of Monday, September 28 and early Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Egyptian security forces conducted raids on the homes of journalists Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira and Abdallah Qadry and took them into custody. Raids on the homes of other journalists working for the platform continued across several governorates over the hours to come. By the end of the day on Tuesday, Islam Barakat and Omar Helal were arrested from their homes in Gharbiya and Port Said, and Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed Adel were arrested from Cairo.

Across the home raids, the raiding officers confiscated phones and laptops, including devices belonging to family members; refused to display a warrant; and refused to disclose where the journalists were being taken. As of the writing of this statement, the reasons for their arrest has not been shared and their location remains unknown."

https://timep.org/2026/09/30/global-call-for-the-release-of-entire-newsroom-at-egyptian-investigative-journalism-platform-matsadaash/

#Egypt #PressFreedom #Journalism #Media #CivilLIberties #InvestigativeJournalism

🇷🇴 🔴 RECORDER INVESTIGATION

At least 30% of the doctoral thesis defended by Lucian Pahonțu in 2003 was allegedly taken from other sources without proper citation.

Recorder identified 52 pages and 761 copied lines, including excerpts from the 1976 Security Troops Regulations.

Pahonțu did not provide a statement before the investigation was published.

https://recorder.ro/analiza-recorder-o-treime-din-lucrarea-de-doctorat-a-lui-lucian-pahontu-este-plagiata/

#Romania #InvestigativeJournalism #Plagiarism #Securitate #SPP #LucianPahontu #Transparency #Accountability

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/23310/ Malawi ex-army chief arrested following allegations over Sudan arms #ACB #allegations #AntiCorruptionBureau #InvestigativeJournalism #Malawi #MalawiDefenceForce #MilitaryWeapons #PaulValentinoPhiri #PIJ #WarInSudan

An excellent #Sunday #longread from Mancunian local #investigativejournalism the Mill:

the story of #Mancity, the #UAE & the council as a way in to understand #AndyBurnham's Realpolitik approach to economic development.

"When #Burnham said, “I have a theory of growth”, there was no mention of how growth in #Manchester was driven by making friends in the Gulf or attracting billions from China". Ironic his #labourconference motto should have been: 'hope is honesty".

https://manchestermill.co.uk/man-city-burnham-abu-dhabi-united-group-charges/

O'Neill spent twenty years chasing this story. He found more holes than answers.
#books #bookreview #InvestigativeJournalism #Nonfiction
https://smpl.is/anb3i

How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign.

Documents obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network trace drone bombs, incendiary parcels and arson attacks to Russian intelligence.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20261002-how-a-failed-attack-in-leipzig-revealed-a-wider-russian-campaign?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#HybridWarfare #Russia #Europe #Defence #InvestigativeJournalism #Espionage #Sabotage #WarInUkraine #Leipzig #Germany #Lithuania #Latvia #Poland #UK

https://www.europesays.com/videos/104166/ France: Media outlet publishes new antisemitic screenshots attributed to Jordan Bardella #antisemitism #Euronews #InvestigativeJournalism #JordanBardella #NationalRally(France)

Fears for City whistleblower Rui Pinto after he loses protected witness status
By Ed Aarons and Miguel Dantas in Porto

Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into Manchester City, is understood to fear for his safety

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/01/fears-manchester-city-whistleblower-rui-pinto-loses-protected-witness-status

#ManchesterCity #Football #PremierLeague #Sport #Footballpolitics #Investigativejournalism #TheGuardian #EdAarons #MiguelDantasinPorto

Ah, nothing screams cutting-edge journalism quite like a half-baked conspiracy theory questioning why Sam Altman isn't behind bars. 🤔🔒 But let’s be real, the only crime here is subjecting readers to this masterpiece of investigative bafflement. 😂📰
https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/ #cuttingedgejournalism #conspiracytheory #SamAltman #investigativejournalism #mediahumor #HackerNews #ngated

‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses.

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows.

Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260929-online-sex-workers-literally-have-to-bare-it-all-why-patricia-nilsson-is-exposing-the-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Porn #Internet #Business #SexWork #Tech #SocialMedia #InvestigativeJournalism #Mindgeek #Pornhub #PatriciaNilsson

‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/29/patricia-nilsson-exposing-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses #LifeAndStyle #Pornography #Society #SexWork #Internet #InvestigativeJournalism #Technology

‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses
By Amelia Gentleman

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/29/patricia-nilsson-exposing-worlds-biggest-porn-bosses

#Lifeandstyle #Pornography #Society #Sexwork #Internet #Investigativejournalism #Technology #TheGuardian #AmeliaGentleman

ProPublica: What Does Your Data Reveal About Sports Betting Apps? Help ProPublica Find Out.. “ProPublica is trying to understand how sports betting apps incentivize users to keep playing and when they warn users to pump the brakes. To do that, we need your help: We’re aiming for at least 250 people to upload their gambling history from apps like FanDuel and DraftKings. We’re not quite there […]