Audience need: Expose

18.12.22

Big Tobacco

Quarter of a million children in Lima exposed to cigarette advertising near school

Crowdsourced data from across Lima shows splashy displays of cigarettes placed next to sweets, chocolates and soda

16.12.22

Health Inequality

Thousands of vulnerable people cut off from gas and electricity for days at a time

Stark figures of those forced to 'self-disconnect' only paint fraction of the picture as cost-of-living crisis takes hold

15.12.22

Big Tobacco

Lithium being trashed by the tonne as disposable vapes flood the US market

Five devices per second are thrown away by 15- to 24-year-olds despite containing reusable batteries

30.11.22

Local Power

'Unprecedented risk': Thurrock finance chief ignored warnings about catastrophic deals

Sean Clark acted against consultants' advice on investments that have left council with largest budget gap ever reported by a local authority

29.11.22

Local Power

Thurrock council reveals £500m black hole caused by ruinous business deals

Series of catastrophic investments has left Thurrock with biggest deficit ever recorded by UK local authority

22.11.22

Global Superbugs

Swimming in superbugs: MRSA and E coli found in British rivers

Testing commissioned by the Bureau, World Animal Protection and the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics has found evidence of drug resistance in waterways near farms

21.11.22

Big Tech

The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers

21.11.22

Global Superbugs

McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers risk public health with ‘reckless’ antibiotics use

The most important antibiotics to human health are still being used within the supply chains of major US food companies, risking the spread of dangerous superbugs

10.11.22

Global Health

Who killed the vaccine waiver?

How Big Pharma and various government officials worked to water down a radical proposal aimed at giving poorer countries greater access to vaccines

05.11.22

The Enablers

How Qatar hacked the World Cup

Critics who threatened to expose wrongdoing by Qatar were targeting as part of huge hacking operation

05.11.22

The Enablers

Inside the global hack-for-hire industry

British investigators have been able to commission 'hack-for-hire' firms with little fear that they will be prosecuted for breaking the law

31.10.22

Environment

Mines, pipelines and oil rigs: what HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for

Bank is using ‘green’ initiatives to raise billions for companies that are fuelling the climate crisis

20.10.22

Big Tech

Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators

Moderators told the Bureau they faced inadequate psychological support to deal with the endless stream of disturbing content and had to work to gruelling performance targets

07.10.22

Big Tobacco

A US farmer was accused of abusing his workers. Then Big Tobacco backed his election

Reynolds American has pumped a thousands of dollars into the campaigns of a local politician with anti-union agenda

07.10.22

The Housing Crisis

Lack of affordable lets leaves families with little left to live on

Three years since the Bureau first investigated, housing benefit rates still fall short across the country

25.09.22

Big Tech

Unholy alliance: the far-right religious network attacking reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights

CitizenGo network combines the US Christian right, militant European Catholics, Russian Orthodox hardliners and sanctioned oligarchs

22.09.22

Environment

Nestlé supplier used Brazilian beef from seized Indigenous land

Abattoir owned by meatpacking giant Marfrig is at the centre of murky supply chain that also includes McDonald’s and Burger King

28.08.22

Big Tobacco

Philip Morris misleading the public about nicotine in heated tobacco

Tobacco giant claims there is 0.5mg of nicotine in an Iqos stick but research by the Bureau reveals the actual figure is eight times higher

21.08.22

Sent to jail for feeding the pigeons: the broken system of antisocial behaviour laws

Rigid legal rules have seen draconian punishments meted out to vulnerable people who often face court hearings without a lawyer

05.08.22

Global Health

Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid

UK aid cuts mean an estimated 7.1 million children have lost their education, 5.3 million women and girls have lost access to modern family planning methods, and nearly 12 million children and women h...

Quarter of a million children in Lima exposed to cigarette advertising near school

Thousands of vulnerable people cut off from gas and electricity for days at a time

Lithium being trashed by the tonne as disposable vapes flood the US market

'Unprecedented risk': Thurrock finance chief ignored warnings about catastrophic deals

Thurrock council reveals £500m black hole caused by ruinous business deals

Swimming in superbugs: MRSA and E coli found in British rivers

The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers risk public health with ‘reckless’ antibiotics use

Who killed the vaccine waiver?

How Qatar hacked the World Cup

Inside the global hack-for-hire industry

Mines, pipelines and oil rigs: what HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for

Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators

A US farmer was accused of abusing his workers. Then Big Tobacco backed his election

Lack of affordable lets leaves families with little left to live on

Unholy alliance: the far-right religious network attacking reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights

Nestlé supplier used Brazilian beef from seized Indigenous land

Philip Morris misleading the public about nicotine in heated tobacco

Sent to jail for feeding the pigeons: the broken system of antisocial behaviour laws

Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid

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