Core Team

Ariadne Papagapitos

Impact Director

Ariadne has 15 years of experience building programmes on conflict resolution, governance and human rights in complex contexts for philanthropic institutions and nonprofits. Prior to joining Lighthouse, she was a consultant to foundations working on forced migration, director of the Peacebuilding program at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Co-Founder and New Markets Director at Localized, a startup social enterprise focused on closing the skills and employment gap for young people in developing markets.

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Investigations

Two Factor Insecurity

Two Factor Insecurity

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money
Computer says no fly

Computer says no fly

Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships
Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande

Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande

More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.
Border911

Border911

Ahead of the US election, the architect of Trump’s family separation policy – slated to return to office if Trump is re-elected – is using border disinformation to lay the groundwork for challenging the election results.
The Kutum massacre

The Kutum massacre

Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.
Desert Dumps

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.
Smoke and Lies

Smoke and Lies

Visual investigation reconstructs the unseen events which saw 40 people suffocate to death in a migrant detention centre fire in Ciudad Juárez, disproving official account
Ethnic Profiling

Ethnic Profiling

Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
Suspicion Machines

Suspicion Machines

Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination