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Big Tech
Age-gating specific AI features may leave addictive design, emotional dependency and smaller apps largely untouched
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The Enablers
The private members bills are being supported by MPs and peers across the parties who want to end the silencing of whistleblowers and journalists
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Trans+ Voices
Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years
Masked thugs burning the homes of ‘foreigners’ is part of a long history of racist violence in Northern Ireland
As big chatbot platforms tighten safety rules, smaller AI apps are courting cast-off users with weak age checks – and reading their private chats
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Published with
How Rifaat al-Assad stashed his stolen millions – and eluded the lawyers trying to take him down
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Environment
Public sector pensions have ploughed billions into opaque investment funds which are financing ruinous gas projects on the US Gulf Coast
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London lawyers used a private government meeting to throw mud at the press and describe their super-rich clients as locked in a ‘David and Goliath’ battle
Investors and churches argue HSBC breached global human rights duties after we revealed its deal with mining giant Glencore
Prosecutors are looking into whether the digital finance firm has been used to launder proceeds of fraud, corruption and drug trafficking
MPs and campaigners call for full transparency on milk and cheese products after we reveal twofold growth in UK’s intensive cattle farms
Early findings show that vast number of unlicensed farms should indeed hold environmental permits – as we had feared
The hate economy
Migrants are under attack by our country’s press, politicians and public. But we’re working to expose the hate economy – and we need your help
A content creator in Pakistan is earning money from viral videos that stir up hate in UK
A story published by Reach's regional outlets last week showcased the human cost of cheap clickbait
Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real
Hostile political rhetoric and harmful media coverage overshadows statistics that show net migration is falling
The conflict in Iran has shown up gas and oil as unsafe investments. It’s time our pensions left them behind
Family Court Files
We've been reporting on unregulated experts because we hoped our scrutiny would help drive change. Now it has
Analysis: Until lawyers are barred from sending out empty threats on behalf of mega-rich clients, free speech remains in danger
Hear about our latest investigations, before they break
We sat down with the Empire of AI author to discuss the global power dynamics shaping today’s tech arms race
Reporting on financial secrecy throws up a constant challenge: who are the victims? So we set out to find them – and give their voices a platform
Local Power
How a mysterious late-night email blew open the biggest story of my career
COP in, COP out
We've been investigating the threats faced by Indigenous people for years. But ahead of this year's climate summit, I wanted to do something different.
