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1/ Today, ICIJ unveils a bold new brand, mission and vision to expand our global reporting collaborations and renew our commitment to telling stories that show how the world really works — triggering positive change in tumultuous times. 🧵bit.ly/3bLEVI8
2/ With democracy & press freedom under attack globally, authoritarianism & inequality on the rise, and corporations increasingly operating beyond the realms of accountability, wealth & influence have accumulated in the hands of a powerful elite – secretly hoarded out of reach.
3/ ICIJ has directed the largest cross-border reporting initiatives in history, convincing reporters across the globe to set aside traditional rivalries to uncover corruption, abuses of power and grave harms inflicted on the world's most vulnerable people.
4/ Time and time again, our revolutionary investigations – including the #PanamaPapers, #ParadisePapers, #ImplantFiles, #FinCENFiles and #PandoraPapers – have revealed broken systems, widespread corruption and devastating injustice and inequality.
5/ Twenty-five years after we was first founded and five years since we became an independent investigative news outlet, our track record of breaking stories that rock the world has made ICIJ an indispensable news source, and a leader in the global battle for truth.
6/ With a bold new logo and a reinvigorated focus on innovative, technology-led journalism, ICIJ plans to broaden its network and its storytelling to new frontiers, working with more journalists and media outlets than ever before to tell stories that will truly rock the world.
7/ While we celebrate our bold new vision together, we are humbly reminded of the work that remains ahead of us.

At ICIJ, our team members, board, journalist members, media partners and supporters are up to the challenge in large part because of you — our global community.
8/ Together, we will expose wrongdoing so that the world can make it right.

Join us on this journey by becoming a subscriber, or consider making a contribution to support our journalism.

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Jul 5
Want to get to know the #PandoraPapers, the biggest offshore financial investigation in history?

📧 We’ve curated a new series to walk readers through the most explosive stories and bottom-line findings.

In just six emails, we’ll cover … ⤵️ bit.ly/3NrFO5W
👥 THE POWER PLAYERS: Hidden in millions of leaked documents are the secret financial activities of hundreds of politicians, tycoons, billionaires, criminals, and celebrities.

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🧵/ Days ago, the U.S. blocked the Madame Gu yacht and other holdings linked to sanctioned Russian billionaire Andrei Skoch.

#ParadisePapers reveals the network of middlemen he used to acquire the yacht and other luxury assets worth hundreds of millions. bit.ly/3MpOold
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NEW: Thousands of images and documents leaked from public security bureaus in Xinjiang provide an unprecedented view of the militarized nature of China’s mass internment camps, refuting official claims about so-called ‘educational centers’ for Uyghurs. 🧵 bit.ly/3PFV01u
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Today, ICIJ is releasing its final installment of #PandoraPapers data, adding information from seven offshore providers headquartered in Hong Kong, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Switzerland and Dubai to the #OffshoreLeaks Database. #WPFD 🧵bit.ly/3kyqvwb
In total, the #OffshoreLeaks Database now boasts information on more than three-quarters of a million people and companies behind secret offshore structures with links to more than 200 countries and territories, spanning five different major leaks. bit.ly/3kyqvwb
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Operating with no required training and little oversight, some agents have massive, globe-spanning client lists. bit.ly/3ubd230
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