As American satellite images of the Middle East went dark, Chinese alternatives filled the void. @economist.com @shashj.bsky.social and I looked at how Chinese satellites boosted Iran’s war effort, & took the chance to delve into China’s Earth-observation ecosystem. www.economist.com/china/2026/0...

How Chinese satellites have boosted Iran’s war effort

As American images went dark, Chinese alternatives filled the void

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Thanks to AI, US immigration agents can access an unprecedented amount of information about people in America. @economist.com we looked at how the technology is turbocharging Trump’s mass deportations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeii...

How is AI helping Donald Trump’s mass deportations? | The Economist

YouTube video by The Economist

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“Freedom is not cheap. What we have here, somebody paid by blood.” On “The Weekend Intelligence”, @katiebryant.bsky.social meets Lithuania’s growing civilian army, including the CEOs, bartenders, husbands and fathers, learning how to resist a Russian invasion

How to prepare for an invasion

Lithuanians are Putin-proofing

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Every four minutes a car is stolen in Britain—but where do they end up? @economist.com we tracked the new global black market in stolen vehicles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiZ...

Britain's stolen cars fuel a global criminal market

YouTube video by The Economist

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For the first time, CIR has uncovered the location of a Sudanese RSF military camp in the desert of Sudan’s neighbour, Libya. It is directly linked to the war in Sudan. We will show you where, we will show you how. Watch in full now: youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM

@economist.com we used satellite imagery and videos to investigate the killings near aid sites in Gaza: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aEJ...

Why are so many being killed near Gaza's aid sites?

YouTube video by The Economist

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It's been six weeks since Wagner announced its withdrawal from Mali. @economist.com we investigated Russia’s latest movements in the region, and found that, far from pulling out, Putin is consolidating his influence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSSU...

Why Vladimir Putin is expanding in Africa

YouTube video by The Economist

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Five men have now been convicted for an arson attack on a London warehouse. My latest video explains how this fire reveals the Kremlin's changing sabotage tactics. Since his diplomats were expelled from Europe, Putin is increasingly reliant on local proxies. youtube.com/shorts/ebBHg...

Inside the Russian arson plot in London

YouTube video by The Economist

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I joined @economist.com daily podcast to talk about the junta's ongoing airstrikes in Myanmar, even in the aftermath of the earthquake in March. Thanks to @cen4infores.bsky.social and @acleddata.bsky.social for their tireless work documenting this brutal conflict shows.acast.com/theintellige...

California screaming: National Guard in LA | The Intelligence from The Economist

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Ukraine’s astonishing drone attack deep inside Russia was a humiliation for Vladimir Putin—and a warning to other Western armed forces. We explain why the operation is likely to be ranked among the most important raiding actions in modern warfare www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM25...

Ukraine's drone strike is a warning to all armed forces

YouTube video by The Economist

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Last week, reports emerged of an airstrike on a school in Myanmar. For our latest visual investigation @economist.com, we analysed the incident. We found a pattern of ongoing bombardment, even over the rubble of the country’s worst earthquake in decades. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJw_...

Is Myanmar’s junta bombing its own citizens?

YouTube video by The Economist

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New from @katiebryant.bsky.social on the @economist.com visual investigations team: In the past two months the junta in Myanmar has actually launched more airstrikes, including on civilians, than it did prior to declaring a ceasefire in the days following the March 28th earthquake.

Is Myanmar’s junta bombing its own citizens?

YouTube video by The Economist

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Tusk says he has more evidence about the links between Russia and the fire at Marywilska shopping centre last year. My video from last October looked at how the incident fits into a wider pattern of Putin-linked sabotage across NATO www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEI...

What’s happening on Diego Garcia? We tracked satellite images of US B-2 bombers in the Chagos Islands to understand America's plans in region – and analysed why the remote islands in the Indian Ocean are becoming increasingly important www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ajx...

Why are American bombers appearing on a remote island?

YouTube video by The Economist

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Christ, it came true www.reuters.com/technology/a...

Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India 'to beat' Trump tariffs, sources say

Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump's tariffs, sources told Reuters.

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Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics

A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

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"Fears have grown that Russia is seeking to fuel social unrest in Britain and other western European states via covert digital campaigns aimed at exploiting ethnic and religious tensions" www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

Russia-linked Telegram channels ‘offering to pay for attacks on mosques’

Exclusive: Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK residents who daubed anti-Muslim graffiti

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“There are no people, no boys, no one. You forget about everything and work.” Here’s an excellent lunchtime watch for you: Bloomberg on the women supporting the war effort in Ukraine. youtu.be/JfZSVGqYYcU?...

Ukraine’s Hidden Army

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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“Once you go there, you won’t go back” I followed the black market in human growth hormone for @economist.com's The Weekend Intelligence. I met doctors, users and drug dealers to understand our quest to optimise ourselves, and what it can ultimately cost. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

The hormone that grew me

How far would you go in the pursuit of perfection?

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My colleague @suelinwong.bsky.social spent a year investigating the global enterprise of online scamming. The story took her into a dark and incredibly sophisticated criminal underworld. Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL Watch our video: www.economist.com/video/CS7uqW...

Scam Inc from The Economist: 1. Pigs in a barrel

You wouldn’t fall for a scam—would you?A small town in Kansas is left reeling after one of their best and brightest gets sucked in. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economist Podcasts...

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The video evidence is what I always come back to when I think of Jan. 6. We @propublica.org created this interactive piece of videos that Parler users recorded and uploaded from their own POV that day, and it remains as disturbing today as it was then. projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

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Why we should pay attention to Russia's increased use of glide bombs 👇 Watch in full: youtube.com/watch?v=49WiQiuLeRc ⏲️ jump to 3:50 for "glide bombs explained" #Ukraine #Russia #glidebombs

Moving piece from the Washington Post about coded language in Syria. Earlier this year I wrote about a language of protest with a long history in Russia. Informed by the Greek fabulist Aesop, it was described by Lenin as “that accursed Aesopian language”. www.economist.com/culture/2024...

How Aesop’s fables fostered a secret language of protest in Russia

Coded tributes to Alexei Navalny reveal the long afterlife of Aesop’s fables

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

For decades, Syrians passed down a warning from one generation to the next: “The walls have ears.” In this environment of surveillance, Syrians improvised.

An early 20th century Futurist’s take on the dizziness of technological change, via my favourite bot on bluesky

MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 2y ago

Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134718

One Russian paper today on Syria: “The whole system of Russia’s Middle East presence has in the blink of an eye turned into a bygone political era. This is a lamentable, agonising fact that can't be denied or understated. But no reason for an emotional outburst.” #ReadingRussia

Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (10 December 2024)

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

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Came across an anti-AfD protest in Berlin with some excellent reproductive rights posters. Particularly love this women’s contraceptive pill packet — a tin foil hat I can get behind 🤍

Great to see @livmoloney.bsky.social talking about @economist.com’s new video strategy here:

Hanaa’ Tameez@hanaatameez.bsky.social · 2y ago

📹 NEW: I talked to four news publishers about integrating vertical video on their homepages, apps, and in stories. No one I talked to is "pivoting to video" again, but instead making their journalism available in the format the users are now accustomed to. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/news...