Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
An older trailer model of the Belgian transport company Van de Poel was used to hide Iranian missile launchers in Iraq.
low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations www.404media.co/ai-translati...
Air Defenses Add To Evidence Of Russian Oreshnik Missile Deployment In Belarus
www.rferl.org/a/russian-or...
Ein Mord an einem tschetschenischen #Regierungskritiker in Wien im Jahr 2009 holt Europas Behörden wieder ein: Ein Mordhelfer wurde vorzeitig entlassen und kehrte nach #Russland zurück. Nach CORRECTIV-Recherchen reiste er aber nach Hannover – dort wurde er wieder aktenkundig.
prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible:
www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Iran state media has said that 201 people have been killed in the attacks, including 85 people who were mostly schoolgirls in a strike on a school.
Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran's retaliation: ft.trib.al/coexPsq
Financial Times exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser.
ft.trib.al/6lAW6ay
This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.
In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.
Cops found his body 5 days later
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
Scoop: Rubio has ordered US diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives worldwide
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
"Intent on escalating its “hybrid war” on the West, Russian spy agencies have allegedly acquired summer houses, holiday cabins, warehouses, abandoned schools, ... with the intention of using them ... for co-ordinated surveillance, sabotage and covert attacks."
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/92b988c...
not inspiring a lot of confidence www.404media.co/meta-directo...
Der US-Angriff auf Venezuela liegt fast zwei Monate zurück. Bundeskanzler Merz stellte danach eine völkerrechtliche Bewertung in Aussicht. Doch sie liegt immer noch nicht vor. Adis Ahmetović (SPD) sagt: „Das Völkerrecht ist nicht optional.“ @correctiv.org correctiv.org/aktuelles/si...
What could possibly go wrong?! 🤦♂️https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/osnabrueck_emsland/bund-erlaubt-russische-kooperation-mit-brennelemente-fabrik-lingen,framatome-100.html
"42,200 women, children and elderly people died between 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack into Israel that prompted a devastating Israeli offensive into Gaza, and 5 January 2025 ... These deaths comprised 56% of violent deaths in Gaza."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Das französische Finanzministerium publiziert Studie: Rund 13.000 Millionäre (und Multimillionäre) zahlen keine Einkommenssteuern. Zéro. Null. Nada.
Wie sähe es in Deutschland aus?
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
"Whereas last July the agency [ICE] was storing around 400 terabytes of data in Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, by the end of January that had risen to almost 1,400 terabytes — equivalent to approximately 490 million images."
www.972mag.com/ice-microsof...
Das Verteidigungsministerium will zwei Start-ups Milliardenaufträge für Kampfdrohnen erteilen. Doch der Deal wackelt: Im Parlament laufen die Grünen dagegen Sturm. Selbst Minister Pistorius äußert sich jetzt kritisch.
correctiv.org/aktuelles/si...
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
Yandex Maps has for years blurred sensitive weapons stores sites and military airports on the Kola Peninsula, but limiting public insights to a cemetery is a first of a kind.
Im März 2022 sperrt die EU den russischen Staatssender RT, um Propaganda und Desinformation des Kremls zum Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine zu unterbinden. Fast vier Jahre später erreicht der deutsche Ableger RT DE über Spiegelseiten noch immer Millionen Aufrufe. Warum?
correctiv.org/faktencheck/...
Your car is spying on you – and these three Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race.
From hands-free systems to tire-pressure data, CARINT turns vehicles into powerful intelligence tools.
@omerbenj has the details
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
I don't think the neighbor would have been able to recognize it but Eremenko is reportedly a former GRU officer and has repeatedly posed in Russian uniforms
When the neighbor asked Eremenko what he was doing, he said he needed to get ready for the war
Seit 2017 ist Oleg Eremnko im Verein Desant aktiv, hier zu sehen in Uniform im Jahr 2019. (Quelle: Facebook / Desant e.V.; Screenshot: CORRECTIV)
When we visited Eremenko's old address - where the business in question was also registered, neighbors told us, he is in Moscow now.
One neighbor said he saw Eremenko walking around in uniform and working out in his garden before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...
Story with @alexejhock.bsky.social for @correctiv.org in cooperation with Osint4Ukraine and @kyivindependent.com
Read their investigation into the wider network here: kyivindependent.com/investigatio...
