@clairelwilmot
Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender. https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
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I guess fuelling war rhetoric is good business for conflict monitors.
How do you justify your six-figure salary if the situation de-escalates?
Let that sink in.
ACLED (a methodologically flawed ‘conflict monitor’ that has severely under-counted causalities in some of the world’s deadliest conflicts) says Ethiopia’s increasingly authoritarian government will be justified in killing its own citizens & Eritreans in pursuit of an ill-defined goal of “change”.
Gig-work giant Appen recruits people from around the world, telling them little about the purpose of their work
It has also held numerous US military contracts, including one mentioning a high-tech spy plane
#EpsteinFiles
A few days later, July 31 2018, #Epstein sends a Vox article to Bannon on the peace deal between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea.
"As advertised", he writes.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
In this exchange www.justice.gov/epstein/file... Epstein's name is redacted.
In this document you can see he is the sender, and Bannon is redacted www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
In July 2018, shortly after #Abiy became PM, #Epstein texts #Bannon:
"Note, I spoke with the president of #Ethiopia and #Eritrea , they have agreed not to do any
more work with the Chinese. ! as they now understand the trick.
In fact there is a possiblitiy of the two countries becoming one".
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www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
#EpsteinFiles
I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
New from me, feat. Prince of Darkness and his “best pal”
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And the current moment, where the right are revealed as what they are - fascists, thugs, criminals, grasping swine who would loot the fillings from your teeth - means the death of Sensible Centrism. Because if your opponents are Nazi sex offenders, then who are you supposed to compromise with?
Big tech has gutted ad revenue and monopolized distribution, billionaires have exerted a corrosive control over the platforms, and both squeezed the industry away. We have to organize. We have to get systematic, and think and act collectively.
I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left?
Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
Brilliant investigation
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
This really is the revolt of the degenerates, the freaks, the guys who follow teenage girls around shopping malls, the guys who talk about 'virtue signalling' because they hate virtue, against normal people who are just trying to live their lives.
Great to see our investigation in the Guardian!
Portland declined to comment on our findings.
They told the Guardian they didn't have a relationship with the subcontractor we linked them to, claimed to follow guidelines for all "social media platforms".
(Wikipedia is not a social media platform)
Prominent PR firm accused of employing an intermediary to favourably edit client Wikipedia pages.
It's Portland, founded by Tim Allan, now Keir Starmer's comms chief. No suggestion Allan involved.
Great work by @tbij.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A London UK 🇬🇧 private contractor rewrites Wikipedia entries for billionaire oligarchs and corrupt governments (w/ comments from @citizenlab.ca's @fittarelli.com )
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
v good article from the TBIJ www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Wikipedia was created 25 years ago, today – since then it’s become the largest collection of relatively reliable knowledge in history
But how vulnerable is it to those willing to pay top dollar to polish their reputations? And how do British PR firms help them do it?
Great investigation by Claire Wilmot at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on Portland, a firm specializing in “reputation management”… by hiding negative stories through surreptitious editing of Wikipedia articles.
Glad to have contributed with a couple of quotes on this one.
