🚨REVEALED

Tory candidate Miriam Cates solicited help from Bayswater Support Group – a parent group engaged in anti-LGBTQ+ conversion practices – to bring about policies which rolled back trans rights in the UK

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0… Posts on Bayswater’s Discord, seen by our #TransVoices project, show parents discussing attempts to ‘stop’ their children being trans or non-binary, including destroying their possessions and sending them to conversion therapy

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

EXCLUSIVE: A former employee of tobacco giant Philip Morris has blown the whistle to @TBIJ, revealing a web of payments funding tobacco research

Shiro Konuma told us: “We have to tell the people about this” (🧵) 1/8

bit.ly/scienceforsale Konuma joined Philip Morris because he believed in its vision of a smoke-free world.

At the centre of the company’s vision is Iqos, a heated tobacco product marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes. 2/8

Pictured on the left is British journalist Dom Phillips

On the right is Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira

These photos were taken just before both were brutally killed in Brazil's Javari Valley

#BrunoDomProject @FbdnStories The images were found on Bruno’s phone after it was discovered by an Indigenous search team

At the time of their deaths, Bruno – who devoted his life to protecting Brazil’s Indigenous people – was helping Dom write a book called How to Save the Amazon

🚨NEW

Organised crime groups are using the UK as a virtual base for ‘pig butchering’ scams, exploiting lax regulation to carry out fraud on an industrial scale

But what is ‘pig butchering’? 🐖 /1 Pig butchering is a brutal type of scam, often involving organised criminals, human trafficking, and cryptocurrency.

Some victims have lost tens of thousands of pounds to the scam /2

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🚨HSBC made a *secretive* multimillion-dollar loan to the energy company bulldozing a village in western Germany to expand its huge coal mine.

Just three months ago, the bank pledged to stop funding coal

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-0… Our reporter @jomoulds did some digging and found out HSBC approved the $340m loan to RWE but asked that its involvement be kept as quiet as possible.

🗣️An anonymous HSBC banker described the company’s position as: “Here are the funds. Please don’t tell anyone we gave you them”

Find out how Qatar’s World Cup enemies were hacked – a revelation uncovered by @TBIJ and @thetimes whilst investigating a criminal hacking network (🧵)

Click the link to read the full story 🔗bit.ly/qatarhack Our reporters found that Western private investigators and government officials paid Indian hackers to dig up dirt on targets across the globe. bit.ly/hacksforhire

A dozen lawyers, journalists and famous people were hacked in connection with this year’s World Cup in Qatar ⬇️

🚨EXCLUSIVE – The dark and criminal secrets of private investigators uncovered. According to a source, “most” British private intelligence firms use illegal Indian hackers. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-1… We’ve been investigating the world of corporate intelligence, and the former spies and police officers who become private investigators. Instead of ensuring people abide by the law, they’re commissioning hackers to break it. 👀

🔴 REVEALED

Food giant Nestlé used beef from seized Indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest 🌎

Didn’t know Nestlé makes beef products? It does. And it’s been sourcing some cattle from Marfrig, one of Brazil’s biggest meatpackers…

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… Our story centres on the Mỹky Indigenous community, who have lived in the Amazon for centuries.

Ranchers have been encroaching on their territory to farm cattle. And these farms have been supplying a Marfrig abattoir, which in turn supplies Nestlé.

🔴 Our reporter @Gareth_Davies09 has spent the past THREE YEARS working to bring our latest investigation to light

Strap in for a 🧵 revealing an insane story that many people didn’t want us to tell – the mystery of one businessman and a missing £138m 💷

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… This is Liam Kavanagh.

He owns a solar empire bought and paid for in large part by the taxpayer, and has been living the sort of life most of us can only dream of 💭

⚡ NEW

Sales of disposable vapes are booming, but what’s the environmental cost?

Millions of disposable vapes that could be recycled are ending up in landfill despite containing lithium, an in-demand metal needed for batteries.

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… A joint investigation by @TBIJ, @SkyNews & @Telegraph suggests two disposable vapes are thrown away EVERY SECOND in the UK, rather than being recycled 🗑️

@MattChapmanUK talks through what he’s found ⬇️

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION

The UK has decided to count its donations of excess Covid-19 vaccines in its aid budget - a move that may have effectively cut aid spending last year by up to £140m... thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… The decision comes after new guidance which allows 30 rich nations to report last year’s donations of excess vaccines – doses they bought but did not need – as foreign aid.

New guidelines suggest that governments report donated vaccines as foreign aid at $6.72 per dose.

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION

Is BlackRock a climate saviour or the fossil fuel industry’s biggest fan?

Well, that depends on who it’s talking to… thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… We @TBIJ and @InfluenceMap found emails showing a US regulator was glad to hear that BlackRock “no longer believes the disagreeable things” it's said about oil and gas.

With @Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION

Despite being on international sanctions lists, Putin’s reported allies and their families have been buying the UK’s most sought after properties - and sending their kids to some of Britain’s most exclusive schools 👇 thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0… We @TBIJ have identified 13 wealthy and powerful men who have made Britain their playground, while the UK comes under fire for failing to crack down on key people in Putin’s inner circle…

Applications close TONIGHT for our Big Tech reporter role.

Why are we hiring in this space? A thread 👇

thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2022-02-1… We’re not trying to replicate the work done by national newspapers and magazines to report on Big Tech.

We’re looking instead to meet the urgent need for deeper reporting on the hidden, systemic issues, within the UK and internationally...

REVEALED: David Cameron discussed his $1bn UK-China investment fund with Chancellor Philip Hammond in Oct 2017. This was well within two years of leaving office, so he was under a lobbying ban at the time.
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-0… Philip Hammond revealed that Cameron had raised the subject in an unpublished letter to @Peter_Dowd. “As I noted to Mr Cameron during our meeting, the government is generally supportive of any private sector initiative that furthers UK-China collaboration”: Hammond.

As #Deliveroo prepares a multibillion-pound stock market flotation that could net its chief executive as much as £500m, our investigation finds many riders are paid less than the minimum wage. Sometimes earnings drop as low as £2 an hour

#TakenForARide

bit.ly/deliveroo-pay We collected and analysed thousands of invoices from #Deliveroo riders across the country. Deliveroo say riders earn £13 per hour during their busiest times. But one in three of the riders we sampled made less than the adult minimum wage of £8.72

#TakenForARide
@bureaulocal

One year ago, our world changed. The @WHO declared the rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak was officially a pandemic.

Throughout the crisis, our reporters have dug into the systematic issues undermining the battle against the virus. Twelve months on, what have we found? We exposed how Europe’s mishandling of the coronavirus turned the region into the epicentre of the pandemic. Our investigation revealed how complacency, confusion and a lack of cooperation thrust Europe into crisis. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…

NOW YOU CAN WASH AWAY THOSE NASTY REDACTION STAINS! #journalism101

Often in response to @TBIJ #FOIA requests black redaction blocks hide the juicy details. Sometimes (as with @ben_stockton’s Barracks story this week bit.ly/38aCmL4) you can crack this and here’s how... This isn’t some big secret & if they’ve done the job properly you won’t crack the redaction.

But! It’s always worth copy & pasting it into a Word document (other flavours are available) as @chantaladasilva did (and don’t worry if the format changes as below).

How do we know we’re on to something good when investigating a company like @BATplc? One of our journalists is offered a bribe of course...

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-0… “What is your price?” our reporter was asked via text - by an employee of an agency, @Engage_BCW, working for BAT in Kenya. He wanted our man to hand over everything we had on the tobacco company

New products, old tricks…

Our latest investigation reveals how marketing tactics used by @BATplc have attracted a new generation - including non-smokers - to highly addictive nicotine and tobacco products

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-0… Despite claiming their products are aimed at adults who already smoke, there are clear signs the business also wants to attract new customers...

2020 is a year many people around the world will be glad to see the back of. Here @TBIJ we can’t deny it’s been tough - but we’ve also felt the urgent need for public interest journalism on global, systemic issues. Over coming days we'll be looking back at a very busy 12 months… We launched a global health investigative team in March - they sure had their work cut out. We've investigated systemic issues that #coronavirus threw into sharp relief, starting with the world's opaque and fragile drug supply chains: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2043…