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19.04.21

Coronavirus

Pfizer backs down over “unreasonable” terms in South Africa vaccine deal

Pharma giant had previously demanded governments put up state assets as collateral for Covid19 vaccine deals

19.04.21

Decision Machines

Home Office algorithm to detect sham marriages may contain built-in discrimination

Internal document warns that new system could perpetuate existing biases against certain nationalities

19.04.21

Local Power

High court judge questions integrity of businessman behind multi-million pound council deals

More questions for Thurrock council after judge cites "unsatisfactory" evidence from controversial businessman to whom it gave £420m

11.04.21

Decision Machines

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50 seawater

The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

01.04.21

Domestic Violence

Met officer alleged to have violently sexually abused two colleagues

Officer has been allowed to continue working unsuspended for three years since allegations were made

25.03.21

Is Work Working?

Deliveroo riders can earn as little as £2 an hour during shifts, as boss stands to make £500m

An analysis of hundreds of riders’ invoices shows many riders’ earnings per session falling short of minimum wage levels

17.03.21

Local Power

‘Victory for taxpayers’: Bureau wins fight to reveal council investments

The Bureau has won its challenge against Thurrock council's refusal to reveal what it has borrowed and where it has invested almost £1bn of public money

10.03.21

Coronavirus

Vaccine contract forces a government to pay if Pfizer makes mistakes

An unredacted Pfizer contract with the Dominican Republic shows the company has been given wide-ranging immunity against legal action, meaning it cannot be held liable for problems at any step of its...

04.03.21

Revealed: Home Office knew housing refugees at run down barracks risked mass infection

Internal reports seen by the Bureau detail health concerns over ‘run down’ sites where hundreds of people have contracted Covid-19

28.02.21

Decision Machines

Factchecks and fake news – but Facebook still let them post

Despite changing its rules after the Bureau found reams of misinformation on its platform, Facebook was still letting popular pages post dangerous false statements about Covid-19 and vaccines

24.02.21

Decision Machines

Revealed: Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months

Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds £23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records

23.02.21

Coronavirus

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal

The Bureau has learned that the pharmaceutical giant also insists on indemnity against its own negligence in hardball negotiations with Latin American countries

21.02.21

Smoke Screen

New products, old tricks? Concerns big tobacco is targeting youngsters

The Bureau has found British American Tobacco has attracted a new generation of non-smokers to addictive tobacco and nicotine products marketed as trendy and aspirational

21.02.21

Smoke Screen

BAT’s PR agency tried to bribe Bureau’s Kenyan reporter

An employee of a Kenyan PR agency working for British American Tobacco (BAT) offered a bribe to a journalist to leak details of the Bureau’s investigation into how the company has targeted young non-s...

18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Amazon’s empty pledge leaves agency workers without shifts and pay

Company policy against zero-hours contracts falls flat with warehouse workers 'treated like disposable labour'

18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Agency work pits “minnow against the whale”

Almost a million people in the UK depend on outsourced agencies for work, and are left with little hope of justice if something goes wrong

13.02.21

Eating the Earth

Walmart among US retail giants selling beef linked to Amazon destruction

Campaigners call for major grocers to cut ties with controversial Brazilian meat firm JBS

06.02.21

Coronavirus

The next Covid crisis: a vaccine apartheid endangering us all

Unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will harm all of us – leaving reservoirs for the virus across the world in which new, potentially more dangerous strains will emerge and spread

31.01.21

Decision Machines

Misinformation market: The money-making tools Facebook hands to Covid cranks

The Bureau has found hundreds of pages using monetisation tools designed by Facebook while spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

27.01.21

Impact

2020 investigations and impact

A look back at the stories we revealed over the last year, and the change they helped drive

Pfizer backs down over “unreasonable” terms in South Africa vaccine deal

Home Office algorithm to detect sham marriages may contain built-in discrimination

High court judge questions integrity of businessman behind multi-million pound council deals

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50 seawater

Met officer alleged to have violently sexually abused two colleagues

Deliveroo riders can earn as little as £2 an hour during shifts, as boss stands to make £500m

‘Victory for taxpayers’: Bureau wins fight to reveal council investments

Vaccine contract forces a government to pay if Pfizer makes mistakes

Revealed: Home Office knew housing refugees at run down barracks risked mass infection

Factchecks and fake news – but Facebook still let them post

Revealed: Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal

New products, old tricks? Concerns big tobacco is targeting youngsters

BAT’s PR agency tried to bribe Bureau’s Kenyan reporter

Amazon’s empty pledge leaves agency workers without shifts and pay

Agency work pits “minnow against the whale”

Walmart among US retail giants selling beef linked to Amazon destruction

The next Covid crisis: a vaccine apartheid endangering us all

Misinformation market: The money-making tools Facebook hands to Covid cranks

2020 investigations and impact

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PR and Spin

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