Within the fevered coverage of Russia's growing threat in Europe, it's easy to forget that places on the map are home to real communities. Bloomberg's Borderlands project tries to understand these complex places, and the tension that they're under.
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Inside a Romance Scam Compound- and How People Get Tricked Into Being There
Information & AI Senior Editor @joannaskao.bsky.social selected @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social & @peterguest.bsky.social's story "Inside a Romance Scam Compound—and How People Get Tricked Into Being There,” published in @techreviewjp.bsky.social, as her #PulitzerStaffPicks.
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Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
Populists and the far-right see cultural institutions as a way to embed their narratives into public life; in Lithuania, artists are taking a stand.
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European officials believe that Russia is escalating its hybrid campaign against Europe. Its latest tactic includes seeding a humanitarian crisis in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Read more: bloom.bg/4npsMIN
📷️: Picture Alliance
1.🧵We are thrilled to announce New Lines has won the Online News Award in the topical reporting on climate change category for our collaboration with @thegeckoproject.org. “Dust Money,” looks at Indonesia's green transition and labor abuses around nickel mining
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The story, published by New Lines and the Gecko Project, took us on a three-week road trip through the frontiers of the nickel industry.
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Last night, Dust Money won in its category at the Online Journalism Awards, after winning a Webby earlier in the year.
This is Diana, a Bajau community leader in Sulawesi, who gave us the name for the project.
The judges said nice things here: awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
Exclusive: A cache of 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News offers a raw look into the world of the disgraced financier and sex offender — and reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s secrets
Dust Money, the Gecko Project x New Lines project that used a road trip through the mines, smelters and communities of Sulawesi to chart the human and environmental impacts of the nickel business, is a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards.
awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
Ukraine has faced three years of attacks on its energy grid by Russia. And yet, it's mostly kept the lights on, building under fire a new kind of electricity network, one that's more resilient -- and more sustainable -- than what was there before.
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Officially, one of the best things on the internet. Dust Money, the @thegeckoproject.org / @newlinesmag.bsky.social collaboration is an honoree in multimedia storytelling in this year's Webbys.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
2. 🧵 Our joint investigation with @thegeckoproject.org on Indonesia’s nickel production received a webby honoree nomination for Best Multimedia Storytelling.
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Very sad to hear that Gwen Robinson passed away in Bangkok. A true legend among foreign correspondents, a relentless journalist with a deep love of the craft and her colleagues. Like a lot of journalists in Asia, I owe Gwen a huge debt for opening doors and backing my craziest reporting ideas.
Survivors have spoken to us to reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and what life is like once you're been ensnared.
Fantastic new story this morning.
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Off-white Christmas.
New film from our recent investigation:
We travelled 2,000km through Indonesia’s nickel frontiers investigating how a green, battery-powered future is being achieved through increasingly authoritarian means.
Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
I lost faith in the American Dream when I experienced a "continental breakfast" at a midrange New York hotel.
Devastating longread from @thegeckoproject.org & @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the landscapes & communities of Sulawesi entrained in rapacious forest-stripping, village-gobbling, sea-smothering nickel extraction, pollution from coal-fired smelters, dangerous industry conditions & social conflict
I was totally fascinated by @peterguest.bsky.social’s reporting here, about how Ukraine’s neighbors fear what happened there—and have been inspired to quickly reshape their own civilian tech, like scooters, drones, med tech + way more @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
Journalist @peterguest.bsky.social offers an inside look at what @proton.me CEO Andy Yen calls a constant "cat-and-mouse" game between his company and internet censors around the world. "It’s about whether or not we can innovate and develop faster than they can.”
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🟡 UK JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🟡
@semafor.com is hiring an early-career journalist in its London newsroom. Details here: boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
Reach out if you've got questions!
Considering returning to Twitter for a day to see if anyone can explain Bitcoin to me.
NEW: For the last few months, officials at Britain’s NCA have explained to me how they discovered and disrupted two massive Russian money laundering rings.
The networks have moved billions each year and—unusually—have been caught swapping cash for crypto with drugs gangs
🧵 A wild thread...
NEW: Our 2,000km roadtrip through hidden parts of the nickel supply chain found that Indonesia's government has rewritten environmental laws, militarised the industry and criminalised opposition to mining.
Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social
NEW: Indonesia is the beating heart of nickel production for the world’s green transition. But an investigation by @newlinesmag.bsky.social and @thegeckoproject.org reveals the catastrophic environmental and human toll of the lucrative industry. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
Dust Money
The Indonesian government's obsession with nickel is turning vast areas of the country into a sacrifice zone, where landscapes are wrecked, communities are destroyed and human rights are rolled back.
For @newlinesmag.bsky.social and @thegeckoproject.org
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Ukraine's resistance against Russia has been a miracle of innovation and entrepreneurship, as civilian technologies are turned into weapons or used to build social resilience. Other countries on Russia's borders are trying to learn from Ukraine's example.
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
