Methodologies

How we turned visa receipts into evidence of VFS’s add-on business

Our investigation into the world’s biggest visa outsourcing company, VFS Global, finds that the company has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose “weak” passports require them to obtain visas for work, holiday or visit family around the world.

How we investigated ethnically motivated killings by the Sudanese Armed Forces

Sources told us that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their allies were burning down farming communities and massacring Black civilians across Sudan’s breadbasket. We investigated these attacks and discovered that an ethnically motivated campaign of destruction was operating with complete impunity. Here’s how we did it.

Rio Grande Methodology

How we gathered data from two countries for our investigation Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande

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

Brain Waste Methodology

How we investigated the scale of brain waste, who is most affected, its causes, costs, and potential solutions