22.07.24
Big Tech
Senior figures at dating app accused of mismanagement, negligence and nepotism
26.06.24
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
After months of trawling social media and logging spreadsheets, we found a story that shows the alarming proximity of ‘fringe’ views to mainstream politics
14.06.24
Local push to protect Worcestershire farmland has hired longtime Boris Johnson adviser and cost upwards of £10,000
05.06.24
Concerns raised over platform’s ability to curb misinformation as major elections loom
With 2bn people heading to the polls this year, regulators must keep pace with new strategies of deception
13.12.23
‘It's messed up … they don't think about the safety for their agents’
29.11.23
Environment
Almost a million posts have been found to spread false or misleading information about meat, dairy and alternative diets
20.11.23
Harsh targets and distressing content have left mental scars on a global workforce of content moderators
28.06.23
The lawsuit cited TBIJ reporting about the traumatic content Teleperformance workers in Colombia were exposed to when working as TikTok moderators
19.04.23
Outsourcing giant’s deal comes after TBIJ investigation into working conditions faced by company's TikTok moderators
14.02.23
Remote workers are being paid a pittance to play fictional women messaging men who sign up for sex-chat services
29.01.23
Criminal gangs are exploiting lax regulation to use the UK as a base for carrying out industrial-scale fraud
25.09.22
CitizenGo network combines the US Christian right, militant European Catholics, Russian Orthodox hardliners and sanctioned oligarchs
20.02.22
Fact checkers and civil society organisations describe company's virtually 'non-existent' support for their work tackling misinformation
10.06.21
Social media platforms are failing to get to grips with a wave of dangerous misinformation targeting Indians on social media
25.04.21
Big Tobacco
The company has been running disguised adverts for its brands, enabling it to bypass social media site rules and national laws on marketing of cigarettes to teenagers and young people
11.04.21
The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines
28.02.21
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
31.01.21
The Bureau has found hundreds of pages using monetisation tools designed by Facebook while spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines