Core Team

Daniel Howden

Managing Director

Daniel is a long-form writer and experienced editor. He has been a foreign correspondent for the Economist, the Guardian and the Independent. He’s a migration expert, Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and was Senior Editor at Refugees Deeply. Daniel is a two-times winner of the Migration Media Award, won special mention at the inaugural True Stories Award, and finalist at the Online Journalism Awards.

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Investigations

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable on one time codes to save time and money
16.06.2025

Two Factor Insecurity

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money

14.01.2025

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

27.11.2024

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine

Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

22.10.2024

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.

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

19.03.2024

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

04.12.2023

France’s Digital Inquisition

Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.

24.04.2023

Ethnic Profiling

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

17.04.2023

Spain’s AI Doctor

Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work

06.03.2023

Suspicion Machines

Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination

23.03.2022

Ukraine Exodus

Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees

02.09.2021

Moria: After the Fire

Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU's largest refugee camp

17.07.2020

Invisible Workers

Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU's farms at height of pandemic

09.11.2019

Returns to Harm

Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine

09.08.2019

Shadow Population

Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population