Latest investigation with @thinink.bsky.social, give it a read. Our food increasingly makes us sick, and we found that when governments try to protect us, they get sued by big food companies like Coke & Pepsi. The lawsuits add up to nearly six centuries! www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Big Food vs. The People

We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies

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On #Ebola, it's encouraging to see the community concerns of "Ebola business" now treated like a legitimate concern rather than irrational fears. There was an *incredible* amount of mismanagement in the 2018 outbreak. Literally millions of dollars handed in cash, payments to armed groups etc. 1/2

Every year, bad diets kill millions of people and cost trillions of $. The world’s largest food companies say they want to be part of the solution. But behind closed doors, companies lobby governments to derail public health laws.

Big Food vs The People - Colombia

Lifting the veil on the unhealthy food lobby in Colombia

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Our new investigative series, “Big Food vs The People,” rolling out over the next few months will lift the curtain on what’s going on behind the scenes.

Être visée par des pilotes appelant à “faire une tournante” avec moi pour avoir enquêté sur les violences sexuelles à #AirFrance. Voilà ce que produit la culture de l’impunité : la menace violente sous couvert de “blague”. @jouanan.bsky.social @fannyrga.bsky.social @lecanardenchaine.fr

👀 It's hard to avoid cynical takes on this... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

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Losing "cloud" data because of a missile strike on Bahrain wasn't in my 2026 Bingo card...

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social

What can journalism do in a world where news is free, people don't trust us, and AI bots answer any question? I guess, maybe, not use AI to write articles? See this investigation by @foeke.bsky.social www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East - bellingcat

A Dutch newspaper published a story about private evacuation flights from Dubai, but the photo shows signs of AI generation and the flights appear never to have existed.

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War disrupts fertiliser supplies, puts food security at risk. A third of fertiliser shipped by sea comes from the Gulf countries and cannot make it to the global market as Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz u.afp.com/SLwf

This was one of the first things I ever wrote for The Intercept theintercept.com/2016/08/09/p...

Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go’s CEO

Pokemon Go collects a lot of sensitive data. And its CEO John Hanke was embroiled in the so-called Wi-Spy scandal, a global snooping incident at Google.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

“For the last few years, Niantic Spatial has been taking the data collected from players of Pokémon Go and Ingress (Niantic’s previous phone-based AR game, launched in 2013) and building a visual positioning system, technology that tells you where you are based on what you can see.”

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

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A metaphor for NATO's position? their surveillance plane doing circles in the sky above Turkey. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=4d03c0

always worth remembering that "the cloud" is actually just someone else's computer (or their many, many computers)

Emmanuel Freudenthal@emmanfre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AWS servers in Bahrain and UAE are down - this physicality of the "cloud" is rarely visible to users. ... unless one needs a cloud GPU in Kenya, then one learns that Google, Amazon etc. barely have any GPU on the continent (just a few in SA, and very $$). www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

AWS servers in Bahrain and UAE are down - this physicality of the "cloud" is rarely visible to users. ... unless one needs a cloud GPU in Kenya, then one learns that Google, Amazon etc. barely have any GPU on the continent (just a few in SA, and very $$). www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Iran strikes cause Amazon AWS power outage with issues reported in Bahrain and UAE

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#Cameroon Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the US+detaining +abusing journalists who tried to interview them. But Trump’s administration doesn’t seem to care, @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Abuses in Cameroon After US Deports Third-Country Nationals

Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and detaining and abusing journalists who tried to interview them.

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Looks like a phishing attempt. Anyone else got something like this? @signal.org guessing you don't sent those?

Are you an early-career professional who is passionate about investigative journalism? Are you constantly curious about new ways of doing journalism and making it reach critical audiences? You might just be the fellow we are looking for.

One of the biggest, most luxurious private planes in the world (#2DEER) is flying to the US, with the #ANGOLA1 call sign. Calls signs like these are usually for heads of state, and indeed there's reports that President João Lourenço is going to the US. Trump is allied with the Angolan president.

I'll be at the #GIJC Conference in Kuala Lumpur with the rest of the @lighthousereports.com food systems team later this week Please reach out if you're there and would like to grab a coffee!

Projet politique effacé de l’information. On retiendra qu’il est un immigrant qui parle arabe. Super.

Joan Stavo-Debauge@jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 9mo ago

Qu'est-ce que les rédactions choisissent de souligner chez Z. Mamdani ? Libération et Le Figaro disent qu'il est musulman : le 1er doit y voir un pied de nez à l'islamophobie de Trump, le 2ème l'indice d'un "grand remplacement". l'AFP retient qu'il est jeune, Le Monde signale qu'il est de gauche.

The Mysterious Rise of Cancer Among Young Adults in the Corn Belt By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Dan Keating, Jahi Chikwendiu and Luis Melgar “The complicated thing is that it’s not risk factors now. It’s our risk factors from 10, 20, 30 years ago that are causing the cancers now.” Gift link!

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt

Communities across the Corn Belt are confronting a rise in cancers among young adults — and few clear explanations.

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How do you even...

People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this bsky.app/profile/ligh...

Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 10mo ago

🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out

Ohne @lighthousereports.com und speziell ohne @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social, cr0ft0n.bsky.social, @orariccardo.bsky.social & the one and only @emmanfre.bsky.social hätte es diese Recherche einfach nicht gegeben: merci, thanks, danke to all of you! www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Surveillance Secrets

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

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I'm a regular complainer, apparently

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Fascinating read on the workers training #AI, and why tech companies recruit for thousands of jobs that don't really exist. If you've ever seen an ad to “Take part in a part-time, remote, freelance project” or “Freelance English Proofreader / AI Tutor” you'll definitely want to check this out.

Marché Arends@marche.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today, the investigation my reporting partner Kathryn Cleary and I have been working on for over a year is finally out in Africa Uncensored! africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Recent covers of The Atlantic, and in response the @thecontinent.org about the war in Sudan.