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Articles tagged with "Democracy"

17.03.25

Local Power

Council that gambled £1bn on the property market set for government takeover

Spelthorne spent big on commercial properties to offset austerity cuts but amassed disastrous debts

07.03.25

Big Tech

Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line

The Kremlin has long sought to sow chaos using ‘information confrontation’. That job just got a lot easier

24.01.25

Our Impact

Sara Sharif case: journalists win appeal to name family court judges

Judges involved in decisions around welfare of murdered 10-year-old had been kept nameless due to ‘unprecedented’ order

08.01.25

Big Tech

Zuckerberg and Musk have shown that Big Tech doesn’t care about facts

With tech titans openly disregarding the truth ahead of Trump’s second term, 2025 is likely to herald a new era of disinformation

16.12.24

The Enablers

‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash millions looted from Syria

Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

03.12.24

Global Health

Why Trump’s next presidency poses a new threat to women’s health

Figures close to new president have already been making moves to influence reproductive services around the world

21.11.24

The Enablers

TBIJ teams up with MPs to uncover stories silenced by threats

TBIJ spent a year uncovering public-interest stories blocked by legal threats. On Thursday, MPs will use parliamentary privilege to discuss them

01.11.24

Big Tech

Profiteers are exploiting US conspiracies and hate to make millions

Toxic lies being used to push bitcoin scams and MAGA shirts to Facebook users in run-up to US election

09.10.24

The Enablers

Illegal donations: how does dark money get into UK politics?

Parties’ growing reliance on private cash has opened up the entire system to foreign influence

17.07.24

Reporting restrictions explained: which parts of a court case make the news – and why

Most legal cases are open to the public and media alike – but not all the details are allowed to be reported

06.07.24

Big Tech

Russian disinformation networks ramp up attacks on European elections

Two sets of sites pushing Russian misinformation grew rapidly in the run up to this week’s votes in the UK and France

02.07.24

The Enablers

Five parties accept illegal donations, exposing flaws in foreign-influence rules

Conservatives, SNP, Reform, Lib Dems and Greens took payments from donor not on electoral register

01.07.24

Big Tech

Anti-Ukraine Facebook network targeting UK voters on left and right

Experts say promotion of divisive views combined with anti-Ukraine stance has been a mark of Russian influence operations

28.06.24

UK Elections

‘It’s a basic civil right’: millions in UK unable to vote due to immigration status

Elected members of government and NHS doctors are among those with no say on 4 July

26.06.24

Big Tech

How I uncovered a network of Reform-linked Facebook groups

After months of trawling social media and logging spreadsheets, we found a story that shows the alarming proximity of ‘fringe’ views to mainstream politics

26.06.24

Big Tech

Hate speech and climate denial: inside the Facebook network run by Reform candidates

Groups boast more than 60,000 members and have been used as a recruiting ground for Reform despite bearing no official links to the party

14.06.24

UK Elections

Explainer: what do the UK’s ID rules mean for voters?

New changes led to 14,000 people turned away from polling booths at local elections

06.06.24

UK Elections

What does the UK election mean for gender policies?

TBIJ’s Trans+ Voices project sets out what the vote could mean for policy on healthcare, education and more

05.06.24

Big Tech

Doctored footage and hijacked accounts: anatomy of a deepfake scam network

AI-edited videos of Starmer and Sunak evaded social media rules and cheated people out of money

05.06.24

Big Tech

Deepfakes and their threat to global democracy

With 2bn people heading to the polls this year, regulators must keep pace with new strategies of deception

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