ICYMI, our #RTEInvestigates documentary on the forced labour cotton from the #Xinjiang region of #China entering into European supply chains can be watched here: www.rte.ie/player/movie...

Powerful messaging. Whoever is leading the Democrats comms strategy, give them a raise.

Diarmaid Ferriter: Two out of three candidates for the presidency can’t speak fluent Irish. That matters

A year ago (to the day), we released research documenting 60+ incidents of anti-migrant violence, harassment and intimidation over the space of 3 and half months. Nolan was responsible for 40% of these incidents. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

Lisa Nandy is on Media Confidential talking about the future of the BBC, GB News and how to regulate Big Tech, whatever Trump says open.spotify.com/episode/3Xf9...

A partnership between the Toy Show and the fast fashion retailer Penneys will not go ahead this year, RTÉ has confirmed in a statement. Penneys said the partnership was "paused" because an ordering deadline "coincided with the initial conversations with RTÉ Investigates." www.rte.ie/news/investi...

Nuria Zyden, an Irish-Uyghur woman, believes she is being targeted by China for speaking out against abuses in Xinjiang. "As an Irish citizen, she is being harassed in Ireland in a way that is genuinely chilling," David O’Brien, an Irish academic, told RTÉ Investigates. www.rte.ie/news/investi...

Reminder that our doc is coming up after the news tonight on RTÉ One.

Nuria Zyden, an Irish-Uyghur woman, believes she is being targeted by China for speaking out against abuses in Xinjiang. "As an Irish citizen, she is being harassed in Ireland in a way that is genuinely chilling," David O’Brien, an Irish academic, told RTÉ Investigates. www.rte.ie/news/investi...

Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... Thread

The tag on your t-shirt may not be telling you the full story, as it says where your clothes were made but not necessarily where the cotton was grown Watch: What your clothing labels really tell you www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Our documentary Forced Fashion airs tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One and on RTÉ Player, looking at the links between forced labour cotton from Xinjiang in China and high street retailers. Until then, you can read this piece on the investigation: www.rte.ie/news/investi...

No government officials have been charged in court & critics accuse the 🇬🇷govt of a cover-up. A low-ranking judge will hear the case against 2 Israelis & 2 Greeks, allegedly involved with marketing Predator, write @kkoukoumakas.bsky.social @kostaskallergis.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New from @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social, with a contribution by myself: the links between the Kinahans and Russia's shadow oil fleet: www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

In light of RTÉ Prime Time exposé, @johnnyryan.bsky.social spoke today on radio about how in 2020 he bought similar data identifying 200 Irish people tagged as sex abuse survivors. He gave evidence of this - and more - to DPC and Justice Minister... but nothing happened. www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wa...

This morning, 3 Russian Mig-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace. NATO fighters responded and the Russian planes were forced to flee. Such violation is totally unacceptable. The Government of Estonia has decided to request NATO Article 4 consultations.

My investigation into the exposure of major retailers here in Ireland to forced labour cotton is going to be broadcast next Wednesday at 9.35pm on RTÉ One, with contributors including Kenneth Roth @lauratmurphy.bsky.social. Hope you tune in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8O...

"Authoritarianism. How is that different from a dictatorship? Does authoritarianism breed dictators? Is dictator a special category? Where are we on that progress? Because I think we’re inexorably headed in that direction." David Letterman on Kimmel etc: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Anxiety is rippling through CNN's bureaus as staffers prepare for the Ellison family to make a bid for their parent company—an acquisition that could put them under Bari Weiss' editorial control and radically transform the network. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

Sadly, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is right. And it's just nine months in to Trump's term.

A UN commission of inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & says "the duty to prevent genocide obligates States to take all necessary steps to try to avoid or stop the commission of genocide". Its full report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

And btw, you can SEE this is a moral panic, bc even in this guy's post he's complaining abt *content* it's not about the technology of smartphones. It's about *content* these people don't like and how they believe specific content is destroying ppl's minds, just like rap music, TV, comic books, etc

It explains so much about the Irish state’s attitude to privacy and technology if it did not even attempt to secure its own communications. I have no trouble believing that sensitive calls about Brexit were held in the clear on public networks. archive.is/3H4gK

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

The unnecessary race to ascribe a motive to this killing has led to some deeply irresponsible reporting. This is not the time to contribute to the incredibly febrile atmosphere.

When Boris Johnson overrode security service advice in order to give Evgeny Lebedev a peerage, Keir Starmer (rightly) demanded a full investigation. Now we learn Starmer did exactly the same thing with Peter Mandelson. news.sky.com/story/no-10-...

Brilliant reporting from the BBC--with some assistance from the subject of the article.

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time www.ft.com/content/0723...

The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

Though critics will argue this doesn't go far enough, it is significant that a figure as pro-Israel as von der Leyen has proposed this - and it may indicate that Germany's position is changing, too.

President Trump has just announced that Princeton University PhD student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held by Kata'ib Hezbollah has been released and is now at the American Embassy in Iraq.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Intellexa operators return to a Greek court this month on privacy breach charges – but the mystery of its sanctioned 🇮🇪Irish entities still lingers. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

This piece is incredible. If any other democratic country was deploying troops to city streets, the NYT would rightly report it as a threat to democracy. It is flabbergasting how they do not seem to recognise what is happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health

"Reuters also found that Meta had allowed users to create publicly available chatbots of child celebrities, including Walker Scobell, a 16-year-old film star. Asked for a picture of the teen actor at the beach, the bot produced a lifelike shirtless image. 'Pretty cute, huh?' the avatar wrote."

New: US & 12 allies release detailed report on yearslong Chinese hacking campaign against telecoms, transpo firms, & other infrastructure. Salt Typhoon is just one part of this. Several Chinese companies helping Beijing. Govts urging orgs to patch flawed devices. media.defense.gov/2025/Aug/22/...

I understand the short-term logic of writing and publishing stuff like this. You'll make a name for yourself, you'll get an audience. But once you go down that road, there's no going back. So I would encourage any aspiring journalists who are hoping for a long and fulfilling career to avoid it...

Rare to hear an EU official speak as candidly as Weyand here “From the Commission’s perspective this was a strategic trade-off, not an economic policy ideal solution" “There was a risk that the USA, in return, would question the security partnership. That is the realpolitik of the turning point"

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”

An unprecedented number of former EU and national ambassadors, as well as former senior EU officials, have signed a fresh letter urging the EU to take tougher action against Israel over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza.

New episode of our podcast is out, this time discussing the AI bubble, overinflation & valuations and dot-com comparisons.

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

"Germany’s 'never again' pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Washington Post editorial board publishes a justification for Trump's militaristion of Washington DC. Hard to see this as anything other than another nail in a once-great institution's coffin. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...