"It may be the biggest money-laundering operation in Eastern Europe -- a virtual laundromat operating through banks and companies connected to powerful people in the region."
"OCCRP & *Novaya Gazeta* obtained detailed banking records for more than 120 accounts that made up the Laundromat. We shared the data with dozens of reporters from around the world who tracked down the money locally."
"An ex-CNN bureau chief, and now the founder of her own news organisation, Rappler, she had spent the past two years sounding a warning about what she’d seen happen in her native country..."
"Fallacious reasoning, leaps in logic, poisoning the well – these are only some of the propaganda techniques that have helped shift public opinion on key issues."
"Facebook's algorithms, created in a black box, are extremely powerful in shaping reality and creating echo chambers that could be harmful to democracy."
"The danger of propagators spreading false or misleading information is all too evident. It can result in beliefs or convictions anchored on false premises."
"A series of five videos about journalist Maria Ressa and the investigations of Rappler.com – stories that the Philippine authorities want to silence."
"The battle for truth is the battle of our generation. With technology as the accelerant, a lie told a million times becomes a fact."
[OPINION] The role of America's social media platforms in the battle for truth - by Maria Ressa rappler.com/voices/thought…
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“What we’re seeing is a death by a thousand cuts of our democracy,” Ressa says in the film.
'Lies Laced With Anger and Hate Spread Fastest': Journalist Maria Ressa Maps Social Media Disinformation pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
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May 21, 2013
"She possesses a deep understanding of terrorist networks, having authored two books on the subject."
Philippines’ Rappler fuses online journalism with counter-terrorism tactics, social network theory techinasia.com/how-rappler-is…
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"In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Maria Ressa traces the spread of terrorism from the training camps of Afghanistan to Southeast Asia & the Philippines."
"Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had established a cell in the Philippines and trained members of the Abu Sayyaf between 1994-1995."
Notably, Muratov's Novaya Gazeta is also well-known for it's terrorism investigations, especially involving Chechnya and Dagestan. The outlet is mentioned numerous times in this article.
"I told them I wanted to close the paper," recalls Mr. Muratov, editor in chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. "I felt no profession was worth dying for."
"There was an enormous amount of material in...Novaya Gazeta which pointed to the possibility and in fact to the likelihood that the authorities themselves blew up those buildings."
"Former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko & Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky co-write a book called ‘Blowing Up Russia’, excerpts are published in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper."
"...the manuscript of Blowing Up Russia was finalized and published in a special edition of Novaya gazeta in August 2001."
'All Of Russia Was At Stake In This Game': Who Blew Up The Apartment Buildings In 1999? rferl.org/a/who-blew-up-…
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March 21, 2000
"Novaya Gazeta...has published a series of articles suggesting that the FSB -- the former KGB -- was involved in an attempted bombing in the city of Ryazan."
"On Wednesday,Novaya Gazeta found that somebody had broken into its computer network two hours before the paper went to press and erased the whole of yesterday's issue."
"I'm not very optimistic about freedom of speech in Russia today," Muratov says. "But life is a long-term project. That's why everything will work out somehow, and we'll do our best..."
"The German bank allowed Trump to delay making principal payments on the loan, the committee said."
Trump received 'undisclosed preferential treatment' on a $170 million loan from Deutsche Bank for his DC hotel, House Oversight Committee says news.yahoo.com/trump-received…
"...by the end of the day, three unprecedented events unfolded that, in remarkably unpredictable ways, would change the course of American history."
Access Hollywood, Russian hacking and the Podesta emails: One year later cnn.com/2017/10/07/pol…
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This came out first.
"We believe...that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities."
Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security dhs.gov/news/2016/10/0…
"Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania's richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality,.."
"Moreover, he and Ion Tiriac did business together, after his return from Germany, after the Revolution."
[Who was the millionaire Dan Petrescu, Ion Țiriac's business partner. 'The richest Romanian' died in a plane crash in Milan] fanatik.ro/cine-era-milio…
"Through clever licensing, founding the first private bank of Romania to setting up retail, insurance, auto leasing, and airlines firms, the money began to roll in."
Meet tennis legend Ion Tiriac who's £1.2bn fortune makes him richer than Federer the-sun.com/sport/3658548/…