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With support from the Fund, Lourdes Medrano dug into the impact of new federal rules intended to crack down on cartel money-laundering – which are devastating small…
In the second part of an investigation into a case that highlights lengthy pretrial detention in San Francisco, Amy Martyn uncovered information that a witness’s…
For an investigation in TechCity, Anibe Idakili uncovered how digital lenders, smartphone ecosystems, data brokers, and artificial intelligence contractors extract…
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Given so many powerful figures have seen charges dropped and sentences set aside in Malaysia, it can hardly have seemed fair that the grandest kleptocrat of the lot…
Paco Alvarez: Just to get us started, what inspired your investigation? Katia Savchuk: So I had coffee with Amanda Silverman, who’s an editor at MIT Tech Review, and she…
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This article was produced in partnership with MIT Technology Review and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak…
On July 4, 2023, Caitlin Ditta had just finished hosting a barbecue with her husband and baby daughter when she felt a strange sensation. Ditta, a 33-year-old school…
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. On a June night in 1996, in a basement apartment in Boston’s…
In authoritarian regimes, the “tradwife” trend is more than just a social media aesthetic: Behind the idyllic family scenes and dough-kneading lies a low-cost propaganda…
