So Team Starmer couldn’t ’possibly have known’ Mandelson was lying about his relationship with a convicted paedophile. Despite mountains of publicly available evidence. Yet they spent £30,000 on private investigators trying to dig dirt on journalists who asked them troublesome questions? 🤔

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

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VERY excited about this ❤️💪🔥 pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

First Boris. Now Tony…

Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK. Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉 Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message? Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

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Excited to be back in gorgeous Perugia for #ijf25 Come hear how creative media leaders are growing high-impact businesses despite the odds… in places with hostile governments & and where most foreign funding is banned 🔥 www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

🚨 A secretive policing unit has been instructing forces across the UK withhold information, track journalists, and rescind previously approved FOI responses. @jennacorderoy.bsky.social 's debut on Democracy for Sale - and it's a banger democracyforsale.substack.com/p/democracy-...

As AI upends everything, do we want journalism delivered by Elon Musk (or Melon Tusk, as my 8 year old calls him)? Or, can we do better? Me & Dave Caswell on why the BBC & others must step up. We need a public service revolution now. Before it's too late www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

We're raising cash for 100 Palestinian families for @shelterbox.bsky.social. It's a minuscule amount but better than ignoring Gaza. Join us. Fund us Repost. I need your help to get to £44k target. Thanks! www.eventbookings.com/b/event/the-... @claraandersson.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social

SO proud to have supported @financialtimes.com's Democracy 2024 series, produced by the brilliant @julietriddell.bsky.social, now nominated for the RTS Journalism Award ❤️ Comes on the back of a slew of other nominations & awards for these beautiful films from women around the world: osf.to/3Q60KDe

'Putin has been trying to kill independent media for God knows how many years now. Ironically the country that has this free speech is now about to give [it] the death blow' www.ft.com/content/10b6...

Money for public-interest journalism! Are you a media outlet based in Hungary, Poland, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia - or do you know others who are? Please spread this call widely… 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 civitates-eu.org/funding-oppo...

'But he seemed like such a nice chap...'? BREAKING on Democracy for Sale today: How Putin's mercenary chief made a mockery of Britain's legal system. And how it will happen again, and again, and again until Keir Starmer's government acts on #SLAPPS democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...

Zuckerberg claims he's canning Meta's factchecking program to stop politicised censorship (ie. to make friendly with Trump). But what's really driving this move? Clue: It's all about the money, money, money... www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck...

ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Beyond parody. Guess where? 🙄 apple.news/AfR70lKoLQDC...

🚨 We're hiring! TBIJ is looking for a diligent and detail-oriented fact-checker to join our team next year Contract: 12-month fixed term (with the possibility of an extension) Salary: £37,000–£40,000 Location: London office/hybrid working Deadline: 3 January 2025 Apply 👇

BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

So pleased to see @tbij.bsky.social's & @theguardian.com excellent reporting on the Abramovich empire win @pressgazette.co.uk award. Hugely deserved 👏 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

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