If you watch “Picklestorm," you’d probably see a children’s show about a girl who flees a magical kingdom, and ends up in the UK.

🎥 Deepfakes: Can you trust anything you see online anymore? Episode 3 in @tbij.bsky.social series 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅: 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝑮𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 out now! I talk the reasons we need to worry, why we need to act, and winners/losers in the deepfakes fight (spoiler: not ordinary folks) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s0x...

Deepfakes: Can you trust anything you see online anymore?

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Can AI deepfake detectors always reliably prove whether an image is real or not?

As generative AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, separating what's real from fake is turning into a major challenge.

One of the most pervasive narratives in the British media is that migrants put women and girls in danger.

As wildfires rip across France and Spain, forecasters are predicting a “super” El Niño weather cycle that could bring even more extreme weather.

Our reporters have been digging into the worst of far right grifters, exposing networks of right wing activists threatening charity workers and politicians inventing AI influencers to amplify their message.

What happens when the head of an AI company loses control of its own Chatbot?

South African natural gas company Sasol is promising local development and economic independence with a new multi-billion dollar project in Mozambique.

It just got a lot more difficult for unregulated “experts” to influence family court cases. But how will it work in practice? www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Family courts: new rules bar unregulated experts from giving evidence

Changes coming into effect this month will keep unregulated experts out of courts in all but exceptional cases

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Don't miss the latest episode of our Misaligned series.

Tech Justice Law@techjusticelaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

TJL founder @meetalijain.bsky.social has spent the past two years meeting people who have struggled with AI-facilitated delusions. “Every time I think I've seen the worst [case], I see another one that just again devastates me,” she said in a new interview published last week by @tbij.bsky.social.

Over the past year, we have watched politicians fan the flames of hatred against migrants and refugees.

Help us tell a different story!

Gareth Davies@garethtbij.bsky.social · 3w ago

There can be no sitting on the fence when it comes to tackling hate Today we've launched a crowdfunding campaign for *The Hate Economy* - a long-term project dedicated to exposing those who profit from hate and telling the stories of those who pay the price. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposingth...

Far right marches. Racism on social media. Relentless headlines about the so-called ‘migrant crisis.’ Britain has never felt more divided. Help us tell a different story.

Last summer, small charity City of Sanctuary became the target of a misinformation campaign by right-wing media, politicians, and far-right activists

The first episode of our new documentary series – Misaligned: When AI Goes Wrong – is live

🚨 Every day, judges in family courts make life-changing decisions relating to some of the most contentious issues in society But few people know about it. We want that to change That's why we're launching Courting Coverage

In 2025, the UK’s advertising watchdog banned this ad by US crypto giant Coinbase The campaign portrays Britain as a rat-infested, rubbish-strewn country suffering from soaring prices and stagnant wages, but hints that cryptocurrency offers a way out

A regulatory loophole means that it's almost impossible to know exactly how many intensive dairy farms are currently operating in the UK But that hasn't stopped our reporter Andrew Wasley

How I mapped Britain’s hidden ‘battery cows’

I’ve been reporting on factory-farmed cattle for over a decade. The government may finally be ready to take action

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Three years ago, we partnered with Southwark residents to install home temperature sensors The results were stark. Every single home surpassed 25°C – some for weeks on end – while others hit 30°C The twist? It wasn't even during a heatwave

‘Stifling, suffocating, unliveable’: Life in an overheating home

How climate change is affecting people in the UK right now

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In a rare moment of hope since the Labour government left SLAPPs off the legislative agenda, cross-party lawmakers are trying to expand protections for journalists and whistleblowers facing abusive lawsuits intended to silence them

Anti-SLAPP bills introduced in both houses of parliament

The private members bills are being supported by MPs and peers across the parties who want to end the silencing of whistleblowers and journalists

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Call for CVs: Freelance Social Media Producers We’re looking for freelance social media producers to join us for regular part-time work over the next six months. Working closely with our production team, you’ll help create engaging video and content for our social media channels and website.

Would you buy a pint of milk if you knew it came from a cow kept indoors 24/7?

Analysis commissioned by Amnesty determined that the Times and Sunday Times, the Telegraph, the Sun and the Guardian published a combined 16,913 articles on trans-related topics between January 2020 and April 202 – an average of around nine per day

UK newspapers ignore Amnesty International research on anti-trans bias

Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years

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What happens when your AI assistant turns into a blackmailer? We are launching a brand-new YouTube series digging into the darkest corners of AI To kick things off, we are screening the first two episodes next week at London's Frontline Club

"When I was a baby," writes Lara Whyte for TBIJ, "my father’s family was bombed out of their home in south Belfast. My grandmother was killed in the attack ..."

Mining giant Glencore’s vast coal mine in Colombia is an open pit six times the size of Manchester

After Character.AI’s move to ban teens from talking to its chatbots, Reddit threads were full of teen users pleading for alternatives So smaller developers have moved to lure them

The AI chatbot developers cashing in on intimacy

As big chatbot platforms tighten safety rules, smaller AI apps are courting cast-off users with weak age checks – and reading their private chats

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🚨 NEW: How Europe sheltered alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad Investigation by @edsiddons.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Rifaat al-Assad: how Europe sheltered an alleged war criminal

How Rifaat al-Assad stashed his stolen millions – and eluded the lawyers trying to take him down

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Our environment reporter @josephinemoulds.bsky.social has been investigating the murkier side of what our pension funds are being invested in – and found that some of them are going up in flames. Literally.