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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29785804

The Trump administration continues to detain, expel, and imprison thousands of Americans for the most cruel and arbitrary reasons, helped in no small part by the advanced surveillance networks provided by Silicon Valley contractors: sweeping databases of sensitive information, sophisticated tracking devices, facial recognition software, social media screening. In response, tech-savvy users are taking to social media platforms and encrypted messaging apps to warn their communities, in real time, of encroachments from immigration agents. Some are even going beyond that—by building their own tools to fight back.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/34355458

Shortlist

• https://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

Hear more about these stories in the Page 94 Podcast

• https://audioboom.com/posts/8718911-mini-series-the-paul-foot-award-2025

• Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
  The Guardian/Reuters Institute
  Out of Sight: Missing People campaign
  Brinkhurst-Cuff movingly told the story of Fiona Holm’s disappearance, asking why it was so overlooked. She supplemented her reporting with a wider investigation into how the media covers missing people.
• https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/forgotten-lives-unpacking-crisis-missing-people-coverage-uk-media

• Patrick Butler & Josh Halliday
  The Guardian
  The carer’s allowance scandal
  Vulnerable carers were taken to court for accidentally claiming carer’s allowance while working part-time – even when some of them had reported their earnings to the DWP. Labour has now set up an independent review.
• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/15/labour-to-set-up-review-after-carers-allowance-overpayments-scandal

• Laura Hughes
  Financial Times
  Lead poisoning
  In this deeply reported investigation into the effects of lead in paint and in the soil, Hughes asked a provocative question: will lead exposure one day be seen as a scandal on the level of asbestos?
• https://www.ft.com/content/e0f09d7f-5f05-4902-8778-c0ee7a13cbcd

• Aaron Walawalkar & Harriet Clugston
  Liberty Investigates in partnership with Sky News, Metro and The Guardian
  Inside UK universities’ Gaza protest “crackdown”
  The investigation unit at the human rights charity looked at British universities’ harsh measures against pro-Palestinian protests and activism on campus, and the institutions’ close cooperation with police.
• https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/gaza-protests-uk-uni-leaders-reassured-campus-security-chiefs/

• Jim Waterson
  LondonCentric
  Lime bikes and broken legs
  Waterson’s Substack newsletter uncovered a spate of broken legs caused by the heavy frames of Lime electronic bikes falling on their riders. Who was regulating this Californian company?
• https://www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bikes-keep-breaking-londoners

• Abi Whistance
  The Liverpool Post
  Investigation into the Big Help Project
  Whistance’s four-part investigation for the Liverpool Post newsletter exposed a housing charity that left residents of its homes living in dire conditions.
• https://www.livpost.co.uk/special-investigation-the-collapsing/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/38745122

An accused serial killer who was executed for murder in Florida on Thursday used his final words to express support for President Trump after offering comfort to his family and his victims’ families.

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/2881339

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/182912

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories via this RSS feed

In a time when civil society voices are increasingly dismissed as radical or disloyal, new research led by Ph.D. student Lee Aldar and Professor Eran Halperin at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found that a discourse emphasizing shared values and common goals—like fairness, solidarity, and support for vulnerable communities—can significantly boost the legitimacy of controversial civil groups, even among skeptical or even hostile public.

From the study:

These interventions, emphasizing common interests (e.g., supporting communities, reducing disparities in the provision of health services) and common values (e.g., human dignity, fair due process), can be applied to amplify and include critical voices as part of the effort to combat the harmful consequences of democratic backsliding.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64035920

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44364106

I wrote the book Copaganda based on my years of being a civil rights lawyer and public defender representing the most vulnerable people in our society. I watched as the police and the news media distorted how we think about our collective safety. Copaganda makes us afraid of the most powerless people, helps us ignore far greater harms committed by people with money and power, and always pushes on us the idea that our fears can be solved by more money for police, prosecution, and prisons. Based on the evidence, this idea of more investment in the punishment bureaucracy making us safer is like climate science denial.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30393129

• Increased scrutiny of Chinese tech companies pushed startups to hide their roots overseas.
• DeepSeek’s success has emboldened some Chinese founders to tout advantages of China talent and operations.
• Startups chasing foreign investment are more likely to pursue China-shedding.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/182950

From Scientific American via this RSS feed

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/94522

A councillor's wife tells the appeal court she never intended to incite violence with a 2024 post.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44073921

He DOGEd Twitter's employees in France, and it turns out... not so legal.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64004969

"We're in danger of having no public service broadcasting within a decade, certainly within 20 years," he says. "We don't have a strategy for their survival. It's that serious. The regulators need to start thinking about it."

Do we want a future where European media is dominated by US streamers like Netflix and YouTube, and European broadcasters are a shadow of their former selves or have even ceased to exist?