Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software in the Netherlands scored 100,000s of people on benefits, in first reconstruction of this kind, we reveal prejudice and randomness
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Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Trove of internal documents offers rare insight into how governments justify seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
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Biometrics and the Enslavement of African Elections
Technology has been pushed as a panacea for African democracies. As Kenya faces its third biometric election, a French multinational has made tens of millions from failed systems
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Tagging the Oligarchs
The war in Ukraine has thrown an unprecedented spotlight on Russian oligarchs, triggered waves of sanctions and made them an urgent priority for investigative journalists. Lighthouse Reports is meeting the challenge by working intensively with partners Correctiv, RUPep and Open Sanctions to enrich raw Russian sanctions data in ways that can serve the journalistic community […]
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Workshop announcement
Bellingcat, together with European investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports, is offering a limited number of free webinar places at workshops that will explore how to investigate the online platforms used by conspiracy groups in Europe. Participants in these four-hour events will learn how to research social networks and online platforms used by the likes of QAnon […]
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Europe struggles to vaccinate its undocumented population, as toxic politics undermine public health goals
Portugal is leading Europe in its efforts to vaccinate undocumented migrants during the pandemic, while Germany and Denmark are among the continent’s wealthier nations with serious shortcomings revealed in their public health campaigns during Covid. Portugal and the UK were ranked “open and accessible” in a major investigation into COVID-19 vaccination drives among undocumented, carried […]
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