01.07.2024
The QAnon Recipe
Analysis of 100mn conspiracy posts on social media reveals the key ingredients of virality by tracing the mainstream emergence of a climate denial theory
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INVESTIGATIONS
05.06.2024
False Promise of Biometrics
Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors
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31.05.2024
Afghan War Profiteers
Before the fall of Kabul, billions of dollars were sunk into a failing Western intervention. New records reveal the Afghan contractors who profited and the millions they stashed in Dubai property.
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23.05.2024
Farmers Protest, Who Gains?
Angry farmers seized the political agenda across Europe but how many of their actual demands reached the negotiating table? We profile the power brokers who turned protests to their advantage
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21.05.2024
Desert Dumps
Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.
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18.04.2024
Brain waste
Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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METHODOLOGIES / BACKLIGHT
27.06.2024
QAnon Methodology
How we analyzed millions of Telegram posts to discover the secret recipe for making climate change conspiracy theories go viral in the world of European QAnon
24 07 2024
Backlight: How to fund your investigation
In this episode of Backlight we uncover the secrets to securing grants and funding in investigative journalism
18.04.2024
Brain Waste Methodology
How we investigated the scale of brain waste, who is most affected, its causes, costs, and potential solutions
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