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Conflict and Power
Living Under Drones: The aftermath of drone attacks
A website centered around a report by Stanford/NYU, based on interviews with drone strike victims in...
Investigating Visual Media
Mikel Maron: Crowdsourcing satellite imagery to document deforestation
Mikel Maron has a long history in open source, open-data and mapping. He is a founding member of the...
Money and Politics
Mapping Arms Data: A visualisation
This award-winning data visualisation from Brazil's Igarape Institute (together with the Peace Resea...
Investigating Visual Media
Investigating Instagram: More than meets the eye
A case-study focused on gathering geo-location data from images posted on Instagram to tell stories ...
Access to information
Busting the Viral: Fact-checking on social media
An interview with three groups and organisations working on fact checking: Africa Check, Stop Fake a...
Investigating Visual Media
Postcards from Google Earth
Nicholas Mirzoeff shows us what happens when Google Earth's and Street View's process of 'stitching'...
Access to information
Treasure Islands: Uncovering offshore banking and tax havens
In his book Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxson attempts to challenge the preconceptions people have ...
Safety
No Spyware for Dictators
You can read further details on this on this website created by The Greens/EFA in the European Parli...
Conflict and Power
Assad Debunkation
A blog is attempting to unravel two years' worth of Internet propaganda, leading to what they call a...
Investigating Visual Media
Satellite orbiting
Featuring a project from Quarz that visualised hundreds of active satellites orbiting the Earth on t...
Conflict and Power
Brown Moses: Exposing the real story behind arms in Syria
Introducing Eliot Higgins, who, having sifted daily through hundreds of YouTube videos coming out of...
Money and Politics
The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
By publishing freely-accessible, groundbreaking investigative articles in English and Russian, the O...
Money and Politics
The Civil Contract of Photography: A book on the power politics of the image
Author Ariella Azoulay argues that the act of photography describes the set of power relations betwe...
Money and Politics
B'Tselem Camera Project: Palestine-Israel
Featuring a project that distributes video cameras, and provides training to Palestinians living in ...
Access to information
Journalist's Resource: A research database
A website providing academic reports on subjects that make the news.
James Bridle: Seamless Transitions
A project by artist James Bridle looking to recreate the ‘invisible’ spaces around the detention cen...
Investigating Visual Media
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
A book containing ten essays and ten maps displaying social issues ranging from globalisation to gar...
Conflict and Power
Measure of a Life: A documentary on drone strikes
A powerful 8-minute documentary that brings you face-to-face with survivors of one of the most infam...
Conflict and Power
Dirty Wars: A film exposing covert drone warfare
A film released by investigative journalist and activist Jeremy Scahill that tells the stories of dr...
Money and Politics
Classified Information: A review of current legislation across 15 countries & the EU
An in-depth review of security classification legislation of 15 countries, such as Germany, New Zeal...
James Bridle
A profile of James Bridle who defines himself as a writer, publisher, artist, and technologist explo...
Investigating Visual Media
The Art of Data Visualization: A video homage
An 8-minute video depicting the emerging art of data visualization from its early stages up to recen...
Conflict and Power
Breaking the Silence: Testimonies of Israeli soldiers
A website created to give a voice to Israeli soldiers who have served in the West Bank, Gaza and Eas...
Access to information
Crowdsourcing: What it is and how it can be used
Crowdsourcing has taken many forms and been adopted in various businesses as a profitable model. Thi...
Conflict and Power
5,000 Feet Is Best: Filming a former drone operator
A film based on an interview carried out in a Las Vegas hotel room with a former Predator drone sens...
Access to information
Nohomophobes
A real-time interface collecting data from Twitter and designed to track casual homophobia in our so...
Conflict and Power
Naming the Dead: Data on drone strikes in Pakistan
This project builds on two years of work tracking US drone strikes in Pakistan, which found that 2,5...
Access to information
Harlo Holmes: Metadata or it Didn't Happen
An interview with digital security trainer Harlo Holmes about CameraV, e-evidence used in courts, he...
Investigating Visual Media
Mapping territorial control in Syria
A young student maps out the territorial control of Iraq, Libya, and Syria as it evolves and posts t...
Money and Politics
Walls That Speak
A 47-minute video showing the power of the visual in Beirut's public spaces, and how the graffiti on...
Conflict and Power
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A drone strike visualisation
A dynamic visualisation created by California-based Pitch Interactive, charting the number of drone ...
Investigating Visual Media
Subjective Atlas of Palestine
A collection of intimate and subjective images of life in Palestine, curated by Dutch designer Annel...
Investigating Visual Media
Visualizing Palestine
A bank of creative data visualizations describing a factual-based narrative of Palestine and Israel.
Money and Politics
Taxodus
A web-based game created to more accurately represent the reality of tax havens today.
Access to information
The Rules.org
A decentralized movement of activists campaigning around the world against poverty.
Money and Politics
Tax Justice Network: Resources on tax evasion
An independent network that advocates against tax evasion and undertakes research and analysis on ta...
Safety
La Technologie Est Stupide : Comment choisir la technologie pour le travail à distance
Cet article aborde les questions de savoir quelle technologie est bonne, sûre et appropriée à utilis...
Safety
Technology Is Stupid: How to choose tech for remote working
This article addresses questions about which tech is good, safe and appropriate to use in these comp...
Safety
From Tails to Whiskers: How We Created a Secure Investigation Framework
At Tactical Tech we sometimes experiment with creating tools and software that we think are needed b...
Money and Politics
Investigating Google's revolving door
Over the past ten years, at least 80 people have been identified to have moved jobs between Google a...
Access to information
Regret the Error
Craig Silverman looks at the damage done by 'screw-ups' in eroding public confidence in journalism a...
Money and Politics
Finding Neverland: The story behind Peter Thiel’s secret citizenship revelation
How a journalist uncovered a surprise citizen of New Zealand: US tech tycoon Peter Thiel.
Access to information
Amnesty International on small tasks, big data and massive engagement
Milena Marin demonstrates how Amnesty International uses micro-tasking, the process of splitting a l...
Investigating Visual Media
Switching perspectives
An interview with Swiss artist Lea Schaffner about her focus on mass media images, how people react ...
Access to information
The Virtual Watchers
A project that looks critically at an online platform of 203,633 volunteers surveilling the US-Mexic...
Investigating Visual Media
Seeing the world through Google's eyes
An article that looks at Google's various platforms and technologies and how they capture everything...
Investigating Visual Media
Michael Kreil: An Honest Picture of Metadata
An interview about a series of projects based on the information and digital traces that we and our ...
Conflict and Power
From My Point of View
The second episode in the series, 'From My Point of View', rather thanlooking at professional invest...
Conflict and Power
Unseen War
Exploring the physical, moral and political invisibility of US drone warfare in Pakistan.
Access to information
Disclosures of a Hashtag
Showcasing the possibilities of using hashtags for investigations.
Conflict and Power
Working with visual evidence
An interview with Hadi Al Khatib discussing methods of gathering visual evidence from social media i...
Money and Politics
Hacking Social Systems: Opera calling
Carmen and Doma discuss hacking and misusing closed systems through finding ways of using systems in...
Access to information
M.C. McGrath: Watching the watchers
M.C. talks about using open data to understand the intelligence sector and why he chooses to focus o...
Conflict and Power
Corpwatch: A website publishing and aggregating investigations on corporations
CorpWatch is a non-profit project, whose aim is to expose malfeasance and to advocate for corporate ...
Investigating Visual Media
Trevor Paglen
Profile of an American visual artist and geographer who has been documenting the "state of secrecy" ...
Money and Politics
Rise Project: Investigating corruption in Eastern Europe
A community of journalists, hackers, designers and activists dedicated to accurately depicting the r...
Access to information
Automated sectarianism and pro-Saudi propaganda on Twitter
The discovery of thousands of fake twitter accounts in the Persian Gulf results in an investigation ...
Conflict and Power
The Project
Hadi Al Khatib, founding member of The Syrian Archive, discusses why it continues to be important to...
Access to information
Trackography
A Tactical Tech project that aims to increase transparency about the data industry by illustrating w...
Money and Politics
Jesus Robles Maloof: The power of conviction
Jesus Robles Maloof talks to us about the conviction needed to do the work he does, against a backdr...
Drone Updates: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Monitoring the impact of drone warfare on civilians to hold powers accountable.
Investigating Visual Media
James Bridle: Abracadabra algorithms
James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist from London currentlyliving in Athens. In this sho...
Access to information
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Artfully asking questions
In this short video they talk about using art as a space for reflection and to ask questions rather ...
Conflict and Power
Living in Messy Times
In this video Carmen and Doma talk about the environment in which they are operating in and how with...
Losing Control: Delivery for Mr. Assange
Carmen and Doma discuss why losing control is an important aspect of their work through their 2013 p...
Anonymity: Random Darknet shopper
This video looks at one of the most popular projects that Mediengruppe Bitnik has worked on with bot...
James Bridle: Five Eyes
James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist from London currentlyliving in Athens. 'Five Eyes'...
James Bridle: Seamless transitions
An interview with James Bridle in conjunction with his work "Seamless Transitions."
James Bridle: Beyond the binary
In this video interview, James Bridle discusses the internet asa unconsciously generated tool for un...
Investigating Visual Media
Ingrid Burrington: Tactical cartography
Ingrid Burrington talks about growth of Occupy movement, why she got involved, how we look at maps. ...
M.C. McGrath: Activists and online activity
M.C. suggests tips and techniques for activists to be safer online through lessons he's learned whil...
M.C. McGrath, The making of IC Watch
M.C. focuses on the processes and methodology behind making ICWATCH. He talks about the insertion of...
M.C. McGrath: Accidental leaking and other types of open data
M.C. proposes three main ways that individuals and groups can get data from governments and organisa...
M.C. McGrath: Using the tool
M.C. introduces the tool ICWATCH. This video focuses on how the tool can be used, what data it conta...
Mari Bastashevski: From gigabytes to stories
Finding treasure troves of documents within data dumps.
Mari Bastashevski: "Enjoy the labour, never the fruits"
In this interview Mari uses the phrase "You are only entitled to the labour, not the fruits of your ...
Mari Bastashevski: Modes of operating
In this first interview with Mari, she talks about her practices and processes of her work which com...
Mari Bastashevski: Observe the unobservable
Artist and investigator Mari Bastashevski about photography at the boundaries of secrecy.
Money and Politics
Our Currency is Information
Our currency is Information is the first episode of the documentary film series Exposing the Invisib...
Brett Scott: Economic explorer
Brett explored the inner workings of the financial sector from the trading room floor, before leavin...
Lydia Medland: From freedom of information to genuine accountability
Lydia has worked with Spain-based Access Info for several years, working to promote a stronger right...
Niccolo: Retro-engineering conflict
Niccolo Figa-Talamanca works specifically on conflict mapping, a practice that tries to tell storie...
Rahul Bhargava: How stories move
Tips on how to work with Big Data using new tools, explains why the notion of “completeness” in a st...
Access to information
Smari McCarthy: Making data speak
Smari McCarthy talks about how to work with data to create knowledge from information, how when it c...