
Investigations

The Limits of Ethical AI
Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI

Forest Fraud: National Greenwashing Program
Satellite imagery analysis and inside sources reveal deforestation and questionable commodities across the Philippines’ national greening program

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

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

The West’s Next Plastics Dump
As Southeast Asia bans plastic waste imports, rich countries are offloading their plastic waste in even more vulnerable places – where citizens are too afraid to say no.

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Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work

Suspicion Machines
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination

Tracking QAnon in Europe
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy

Syria's “Bloody” Phosphates
Secret trade with EU enriches Assad regime and evades sanctions

Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced

Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks

Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating

Vaccinating Europe's Undocumented
Policy scorecard ranks European countries efforts to respond to Covid 19

EU Spy Tech in Myanmar
EU funds and techn secretly aid junta in spying on Burmese