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24 Nov, 5 tweets, 5 min read
BREAKING: Gove’s Cabinet office is running an ‘Orwellian’ unit to ‘blacklist’ journalists & block sensitive FOI requests.

What are they hiding? Today @openDemocracy announces a legal bid w/ @LeighDay_Law to challenge govt secrecy.

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@LeighDay_Law The secretive 'Clearing House' collates lists of journalists that are shared across Whitehall.

Departments have had to show drafts of FOI responses to the Clearing House – effectively centralising control within Gove’s office over what information is released to the public
Journalists & orgs profiled by this unit include @guardiannews @thetimes, @bbcnews @@privacyint @BigBrotherWatch – and our very own @JennaCorderoy

Read her story here.

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@DavidDavisMP says it’s ‘certainly against the spirit of the FOI Act - and probably the letter too’. So do @NUJofficial & @CampaignFoI

Our new report ‘Art of Darkness’ reveals the disastrous consequences for press freedom – and the worst govt offenders

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@DavidDavisMP @NUJofficial @CampaignFoI Throughout COVID-19, our journalism has exposed how Johnson’s govt has run roughshod over our rights and transparency protections

Please consider support @openDemocracy today so we can hold our leaders accountable. Thank you!

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U.S. Christian groups have funelled hundreds of millions of dollars into Europe, Africa and other parts of the world to assail women's health and LGBT+ rights.

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BREAKING: The Trump-linked $280m dark money ‘empire’

Our new investigation shows powerful US Christian right groups have helped win big fights against women's and LGBT rights.

(Including Poland's 'draconian' abortion ruling last week)

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It's the first in a major global series landing this week – with more on links to Russia, Africa and Latin America to follow

Search our interactive map with all our findings:
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And: check out this story about the group that's suing cash-strapped UK councils during COVID-19 – arguing for 'religious freedom' to spread anti-LGBT ‘hate speech’
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BREAKING: Under pressure, UK govt has released its massive NHS COVID-19 datastore contracts with Amazon, Microsoft, Faculty, Palantir, Google – hours before @opendemocracy & @foxglovelegal were due to sue.

Here’s the full story – and all the documents:

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@Foxglovelegal The contracts show that the companies involved, including Faculty and Palantir, were granted the IP rights to the contract (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off unprecedented access to NHS data.
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