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Scammed by the fake Chinese police
The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if you don’t pay “bail”
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Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?
The ѿý goes undercover, exposing a disinformation campaign ahead of Moldova’s election.
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The woman who built an 'aidbot'
ѿý Trending speaks to the Lebanese engineer harnessing WhatsApp to deliver aid.
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Sabotage by smartphone
Ukrainians are being recruited to carry out sabotage attacks against their own country.
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The biker gang ‘securing’ deadly Gaza aid sites
How did an anti-Islamic biker gang end up running security at GHF aid sites?
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Deepfaking disability
We investigate how creators are deepfaking disability to fuel the AI adult industry
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ѿý Trending: Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
How ‘unfair’ Goodreads ratings are leaving writers - and readers - mystified.
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Selling misleading fertility hope
We investigate the science behind fertility supplements being promoted online.
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Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
Did cloud seeding trigger the Texas floods? No, but that didn’t stop the online rumours.
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The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims
The content creators in Pakistan profiting from AI generated Holocaust victims on Facebook
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Could your colleague be a North Korean in disguise?
ѿý Trending investigates North Korean IT workers applying for remote jobs in the West.
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No, there isn’t a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Why is President Trump so interested in South Africa?
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Russian informers: Hunting the enemy within
How a victim of Russia’s super informer exposed their persecutor’s real identity
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Print and shoot: The rise of 3D-printed guns
How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
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Brazilian farmers are (very) online
Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
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Are we dating the same person?
How a Facebook group exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
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The TikTokers accused of triggering an election scandal
ѿý Trending investigates campaigns which led to the cancellation of Romania’s election.
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ѿý Trending: From a smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy
ѿý Trending tracks the digital footprint of a wanted people smuggler
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Can Community Notes clean up your feed?
Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?
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Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals
Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours
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School for scammers: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms
How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria.
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The dark side of music streaming
ѿý Trending investigates how fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry.
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Ukraine war: The cost of bearing witness
Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war.
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Passport bros
ѿý Trending investigates the impact of 'passport bros' on Medellín, Colombia
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Valencia's floods: Engineered weather?
ѿý Trending investigates conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
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The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok 'battles'
Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm.
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Meet the anti-witch hunter
Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa.
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Yami Baito: Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs
How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan.
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The curse of the blessing scam
The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women.
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The Baku initiative?
Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?