The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB)

Highlights from the Bureau

Big Tobacco

Paid protesters, free lunches and backroom chats: Inside the menthol lobbying machine

Menthol cigarette makers have tried to stoke fears among Black smokers as part of a campaign against legislation at a federal, state and even city level

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Sam sits on his sofa at home. He no longer goes to school because they couldn't provide the support he needed.

Local Power

Cornwall to Newcastle: children with disabilities forced to travel hundreds of miles for school

The desperately underfunded special educational needs and disabilities system is having grave consequences for young people and plunging councils further into record debt

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The Enablers

BlackRock ploughed UK pension funds into Putin’s war chest

Asset-management giant has earned over $1bn from shareholdings in Russian companies since 2014 annexing of Crimea

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Big Tech

US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites

Yandex, a company owned almost entirely by Western investors is still helping sites pushing false Russian claims make thousands of dollars a day through on-site adverts

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