This week’s Top 10 Data Journalism column highlights, curated by Hanna Duggal for GIJN 🧵👇 Full story:

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Thousands of workers promised digital jobs are being used as collateral in Big Tech’s race to build “super-intelligent AI.” AI Fellows @marche.bsky.social and Kathryn Cleary reveal how workers are lured into jobs with no pay and no work. Story for Africa Uncensored. 👉 bit.ly/4ncZ7lQ

“Our investigation reveals that despite thousands of job postings, these companies offer no promise of work, but instead leverage digital workers as collateral to win Big Tech contracts.“

"We employ the unemployable so be grateful you have a job." Great work by @marche.bsky.social on the hype behind "AI trainers" africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Yesterday, our investigation dropped in Africa Uncensored about how human labour from the Global South is being leveraged by Big Tech as collateral in a gambling game of epic proportions. How? Through the mass recruitment of 'AI Trainers' or 'AI Tutors'. 🧵 africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Today, the investigation my reporting partner Kathryn Cleary and I have been working on for over a year is finally out in Africa Uncensored! africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Any other neurodivergent peeps with strong pattern recognition and a pretty good general knowledge of world history freaking out right now?

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 191 of The Continent The Sudanese army is closing in on the Republican Palace in Khartoum – but the war is far from over. Get your copy, for free, here: bit.ly/TC191

Definitely! See this 🧵 for links. Experts @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @xriskology.bsky.social have talked about TESCREAL for years. Here's a quick explainer from Dr. Torres: www.truthdig.com/articles/the... Plus a YouTube of TESCREAL ideas in tech billionaires' own words: youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...

Trump is that creepy dude in the club who thinks eye contact is an invitation for harassment. He and my country (South Africa) are currently in a staring contest. So now feels like an appropriate time to read Project 2025 because that shit affects us all. A living 🧵 #Project2025CribNotes

I think we need to be talking about TESCREAL more... Spoiler: Eugenics is back. 🧵

Yep 👇

Anyone else think it's weird that Trump can suddenly string a sentence together (low bar) and no one is talking about 'word salad' anymore? Or is it just me?

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

Our contributors did it scared. They stayed inside Goma, doing journalism, as the city fell to M23.

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A good headline hits different 💯

Community is an act of resistance. Let's build, shall we?

I'm building a starter pack of journalists based in South Africa covering the Majority World. Please tag anyone you think should be on this list! go.bsky.app/2qrmSqu

🧵 1/13 After decades of living and working in conflict zones, I need to share something crucial about what happens when governance systems collapse. This isn't abstract - it's a reality I've lived firsthand. Today is what they mean by to "hasten the collapse" (accelerationism 101).

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence for advocating direct action during a videoconference. It hasn’t stopped him. newrepublic.com/article/1904...

2/ @mccra-essex.bsky.social, @poorvak.bsky.social, @tigrayan.bsky.social, @john.africandefence.net, @alexkuria.bsky.social, @soerenbendixen.bsky.social, @natedfallen.bsky.social, @briticoyemo.bsky.social, @owlarcana.bsky.social, @marche.bsky.social, @seitzramona.bsky.social, @philipobaji.bsky.social

If a TikTok user from the US or Europe wants any of their data that the platform collects, they can request it from the company. The same is not true for African TikTok or YouTube users, who aren’t even given the option to apply, @marche.bsky.social reports.

Starter Pack for Africa-based journalists, including foreign correspondents and local journalists from their country of origin go.bsky.app/PYNaWY7

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.