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Jun 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 How are Israeli drones killing journalists in Gaza?
For the #GazaProject, 50 journalists from 13 international newsrooms coordinated by @FbdnStories investigated the targeting of those who were covering the war. ⬇️
Samer Abu Daqqa, Abdallah Al-Hajj, Ahmed Fatima, Anas Al-Sharif… their names are among those of the 18 reporters we identified as injured or killed by precision strikes launched by drones, since the outbreak of Israel’s war in Gaza following Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7th. Four of them were wearing press vests and were clearly identifiable as journalists.
👉 forbiddenstories.org/death-from-abo…
Jun 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Cette annonce Facebook pour la vente d’un terrain dans une réserve protégée d’Amazonie, le journaliste Dom Phillips l’avait repérée en 2019.
Un an après son meurtre, @FbdnStories et un consortium de 16 médias poursuivent son travail. #BrunoDomProject 1/6 bit.ly/3ITgF4y
En partant de cette annonce, nous avons découvert des dizaines et des dizaines de parcelles enregistrées au nom d’individus dans des zones de l’Amazonie pourtant protégées et interdites à la propriété.
2/6 Image: Guillaume Meigniez
Jun 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Reporter Dom Phillips spotted this Facebook ad for the sale of land in a protected Amazon reserve in 2019.🌳
One year after his murder, @FbdnStories and a consortium of 16 media outlets are continuing his work.
➡️ forbiddenstories.org/in-the-brazili… #BrunoDomProject 1/6
Using this post as a starting point, we discovered dozens and dozens of plots registered in the name of individuals in protected areas in the Amazon. 2/6 Image: Guillaume Meigniez
Jun 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Em restaurantes holandeses 🇳🇱, supermercados alemães 🇩🇪 ou cantinas francesas 🇫🇷, pode-se consumir, sem saber, carne bovina ligada ao desmatamento na Amazônia🌳
Isso é o que revelamos nesta segunda parte do #BrunoDomProject 1/4
Antes de ser assassinado, o jornalista Dom Phillips estava investigando a JBS, a Marfrig e a Minerva, as principais multinacionais de carne bovina do Brasil. 🥩
A indústria da carne é a principal causa do desmatamento no Brasil.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
You can find it in Dutch restaurants 🇳🇱 German supermarkets🇩🇪 or French lunchrooms 🇫🇷
You might have eaten it without knowing. Beef linked to Amazon deforestation could be making its way onto your plate🌳
That’s what we’re revealing in the second part of the #BrunoDomProject 1/4
Before he was killed, journalist Dom Phillips was investigating JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, Brazil’s three most important beef multinationals.🥩
The cattle industry is the biggest cause of deforestation in Brazil.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
La langue de bœuf, un pur produit du terroir 🇫🇷 ? Si vous en avez goûté à la cantine, vous pourriez avoir contribué, sans le savoir, à la déforestation en Amazonie 🌳
🔎 Pour ce 2e volet du #BrunoDomProject nous avons traqué les importations de viande de bœuf en Europe.
Ici par exemple, la fiche technique d’une langue de bœuf du grossiste Pomona.
Derrière le numéro SIF 337, se cache un abattoir de l’entreprise JBS, qui s’approvisionne en bœufs provenant de tout le Brésil, même en Amazonie.
Jun 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Le journaliste Dom Phillips préparait un livre : «Comment sauver l’Amazonie ?» Il ne le publiera jamais.
Le 5/06/2022, il a été tué avec son guide, l’expert des peuples indigènes, Bruno Pereira, dans la Vallée de Javari, au Brésil 🇧🇷 1/10 #BrunoDomProjectbit.ly/3qpVFvO
Dans ce territoire menacé, Bruno Pereira aidait les indigènes à documenter les crimes environnementaux commis sur leurs terres.
🎣 Parmi eux, la pêche illégale, le sujet qui amène Dom Phillips en reportage.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Journalist Dom Phillips was working on a book: “How to Save the Amazon.” He never published it.
On June 5, 2022, he was killed with his guide Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous communities, in the Javari Valley.
🎣Among them was illegal fishing, the subject that initially led Phillips to report from this region.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
O jornalista Dom Phillips estava preparando um livro intitulado "How to save the Amazon" (Como salvar a Amazônia).
Ele nunca o publicou. Em 5 de junho de 2022, foi morto com seu amigo, o indigenista Bruno Pereira, no Vale do Javari #BrunoDomProject bit.ly/42nhJ7I
Nesse território ameaçado, Bruno Pereira ajudou os indígenas a documentar os crimes ambientais cometidos em suas terras.
🎣Entre eles, a pesca ilegal, assunto que levou Dom Phillips à reportagem.
May 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Des sociétés mystérieuses, un kidnapping, des millions envolés
Avec @guardian@OCCRP & @TheObserverMex la dernière enquête de @FbdnStories révèle la signature de contrats publics entre des sociétés écran et @Edomex pour un montant de près de 280millions€ bit.ly/3qkpuhx
Au départ de l’enquête: le kidnapping en 2021 de la journaliste mexicaine María Teresa Delgado.
Spécialisée dans les affaires de corruption, elle s’intéresse à des sociétés aux adresses suspectes.
3 mois après l'enlèvement, elle décide d’aller voir sur place.
May 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Shell companies, a kidnapping and millions stolen.
Together with @guardian, @OCCRP and @TheObserverMex, the latest @FbdnStories investigation is revealing nearly €280 million in public contracts signed by shell companies in the State of Mexico. 1/7 bit.ly/3C4F2bD
Our starting point ? 🧐
The 2021 kidnapping of Mexican journalist María Teresa Delgado.
Specialized in reporting on corruption, she began to investigate suspicious companies. Going on the ground, she found fake addresses and shuttered storefronts.
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May 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Empresas misteriosas, un secuestro... A 4 días de las elecciones en el @Edomex, @FbdnStories@guardian@OCCRP@TheObserverMex destapan el desvío de 5 mil millones de pesos mediante empresas fachada. Figuras del PRI, el partido en el poder, están implicadas bit.ly/42iP7MV
¿Nuestro punto de partida?🧐
En 2021, la periodista mexicana María Teresa Delgado es secuestrada mientras investigaba sobre empresas fachada, utilizadas para malversar dinero público.
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Feb 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
This photo shows an account that's been hacked to remotely activate the camera.
But in this case, the author of the intrusion is not a government or hacktivist; it's an open-source intelligence company you've probably never heard of.
#Thread on #StoryKillers part VII (1/8) ⤵️
Hidden in a trove of Colombian military docs leaked to @FbdnStories by #Guacamaya, we discovered a brochure for a powerful social media surveillance tool.
Its capacities include influence operations, mass geolocation of targets and even automated phishing campaigns. (2/8)
Feb 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
VIDÉO : Retour sur #StoryKillers, l’enquête mondiale du consortium @FbdnStories sur les mercenaires de la désinformation.
En se faisant passer pour des clients, les journalistes de @TheMarker@InvestigationRF@haaretzcom sont entrés en contact avec un mystérieux “Jorge”.
Déjà impliqué dans le scandale Cambridge Analytica, comme l’a révélé l’enquête, "Jorge" se vante devant les journalistes d'avoir travaillé sur “33 campagnes présidentielles” dans le monde, “dont 27 couronnées de succès".
Ceci est une « étude de cas », présentée par la société d’influence israélienne Percepto International à ses clients, en fait des journalistes sous couverture du consortium @FbdnStories ⤵️
Elle raconte, dans le détail, comment « limiter l’intervention d’une éminente ONG », pour satisfaire un client, nommé « gov. » comme gouvernement, en anglais.
Feb 16, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The following is a "case study," presented by Israeli influence firm Percepto International to its prospective clients – in reality undercover journalists for #StoryKillers ⤵️
It explains in detail how to "limit prominent NGO intervention" in order to satisfy a client, which they call "gov.”
Feb 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Videos #StoryKillers: Today @FbdnStories & 30 media partners reveal “Jorge’s” secretive disinformation business. Discover how he offered to manipulate elections and influence opinions to undercover journalists of the project, from @haaretzcom@InvestigationRF@TheMarker. #Thread
Before journalists who posed as clients, “Jorge” showed how his tool “AIMS” can create avatars for influence campaigns. Meet Sophie Wilde ⤵️
Feb 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Twisted information, an army of avatars, hacking of high-ranking officials: the second part of #StoryKillers pulls back the curtain on "Team Jorge", a shadowy ”black ops” entity that worked with Cambridge Analytica.
A global investigation into disinformation mercenaries that brought together more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets in more than 20 countries. (2/10)