
Investigations

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

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

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

Poison PR
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.

Automating Distrust
Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals

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

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

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Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work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

The Algorithm Addiction
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban

Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa

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

Revealing Europe's NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU

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

Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal

Ukraine Exodus
Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees

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

The Instagarchs
How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media