The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Auch erstaunlich: Jens Spahn feierte noch im Juli mit Angermayer - obwohl seit Juni 2025 bekannt ist, dass die Londoner Stiftung Aurora unter Angermayer nie Berichte über den Verbleib von angeblich Millionen an Spenden einreichte, dann 2024 von Behörden geschlossen wurde www.ftm.eu/articles/cha...

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.

The German Press Council has ruled that tabloid BILD violated the press code by describing Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif as a "Hamas leader" without evidence www.presserat.de/presse-nachr...

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

NEU: Geheime Regierungspapiere zeigen, dass Milliardensummen in umstrittene Waffensysteme fließen sollen. Viele Aufträge sollen ohne Ausschreibung an Rüstungsunternehmen gehen. Recherche mit @martinboehmer.bsky.social, @alexejhock.bsky.social und Stella Hesch. correctiv.org/aktuelles/si...

Meta removed a few Nazi posts — but left influencers with millions of followers free to push misogyny, racism, and white supremacist content. Instagram is still hosting creators who monetize hate. The platform isn’t moderating extremism — it’s amplifying it. Read more:

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Deutschland bestellt Russlands #Botschafter ein: Sie macht Russland verantwortlich für #Cyberangriffe und Einmischung in den #Bundestagswahlkampf 2025. CORRECTIV hatte die #Desinformationskampagne im Januar aufgedeckt.

Am heutigen Montag verabschieden die #EU-Außenminister neue #Russland-Sanktionen. Darunter sind nach CORRECTIV-Informationen auch Propaganda-Sprachrohre und Hacker – und ein Mann, den die Bundesregierung der Einmischung in die #Bundestagswahl beschuldigt.

“Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated, ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks’.”

@alexejhock.bsky.social, @mxbernhard.bsky.social, @timetodiscover.bsky.social and me exposed the operation in January and found more than a hundred fake websites filled with AI-generated content spreading false news. Read the story here: correctiv.org/en/fact-chec...

New: The German government summoned the Russian ambassador and accused Moscow of playing a "central role" in an influence operation that targeted the German elections earlier this year, which we uncovered. correctiv.org/hybride-krie...

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

AfD-MdB Jan Wenzel Schmidt flog nach China, um mit einem Spion eine Diamantenproduktion zu besichtigen. Verbindungen zu entsprechenden Handelsunternehmen seiner Familie bestritt er. Nun liegt t-online eine Visitenkarte vor. Darauf steht: "Vertriebsleiter Jan Schmidt". Recherche mit Annika Leister

Was hat Noah Krieger vor? Der gebürtige Tschetschene ist in Hannover für die #AfD aktiv und präsentiert sich knapp 440.000 Instagram–Followern als patriotischer Macher. Gleichzeitig unterhält er Verbindungen zum Netzwerk des Diktators Kadyrow – „Putins Bluthund“.

What made the US-backed aid system in Gaza so deadly? Our new short film reconstructs two Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distributions, showing how the militarised aid system resulted in death and injury. Watch the full video here: ghf.airwars.org

Does anyone know a good way to run Whisper locally and *with working speaker recognition*? I have tried some GUI wrappers but the speaker recognition never works..

The Handbasket's independent journalism holiday gift guide is LIVE! If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:

US SouthCom a few tweets way from using a Sonnenrad patch in their imagery.

"The vendors' suspensions follow the emergence of serious allegations indicating that it is likely the suppliers engaged in sanctionable practices, including irregularities in the award of contracts" www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...

I recently wrote about how right-wing accounts have been spreading the false narrative that the violence in Sudan is mainly targeted at Christians and perpetrated by Muslims. Several experts I spoke to explained why it is not a religious conflict correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

Sie nennen sich „Competitiveness Roundtable“. Ein Zusammenschluss aus mehrheitlich fossilen Unternehmen hat wohl massiven Einfluss auf die Verwässerung der EU-Lieferkettenrichtlinie genommen. Das zeigt ein Leak, das @somoamsterdam.bsky.social ausgewertet hat.

💥🚢 Sea Baby naval drones strike two sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” tankers in the Black Sea. Sea Baby naval drones operated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) have struck two sanctioned tankers of Russia’s shadow fleet — KAIRO and VIRAT — in the Black Sea.

Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.

"As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BBC staff are not allowed to quote or show footage of @rutgerbregman.com saying that Donald Trump is "the most openly corrupt president in American history" www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

„Demnach handelt es sich bei den #Deepfakes weder um „Satire“ oder „Karikaturen“, noch würde der Antrag Bohrn Mensa auf einstweilige Verfügung ein „Verbot kritischer Berichterstattung“ bezwecken“

Censys' mobile website is criminal

HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030

Zum Konflikt im Sudan verbreiten sich verschiedene Falschbehauptungen – etwa, dass die Gewalt dort von Muslimen ausgehe und sich hauptsächlich gegen Christen richte. Mein Kollege @mxbernhard.bsky.social hat Fachleute zu den tatsächlichen Hintergründen befragt. correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous. In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.

Verdi meldet, dass ein Amazon-Beschäftigter während seiner Schicht im Amazon Fulfilment-Centers in Erfurt-Stotternheim gestorben ist - und fordert Aufklärung. Berichten zufolge soll er vorher vergeblich versucht haben, sich bei seinem Vorgesetzen krank zu melden. sat.verdi.de/presse/press...

Anti-fascist groups newly listed as foreign terrorist organizations “barely exist and certainly aren’t terrorists,” says @heidibeirich.bsky.social — a move experts warn diverts attention from the real threat: escalating far-right violence at home and abroad. Read more from @theguardian.com:

I can't get over how quickly the window shifted at Google over what is acceptable from its image generator. Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line. No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.

Hong Kong national security police have arrested two people on suspicion of publishing seditious posts on the social media account of their pancake shop. In full: buff.ly/gQ3K5cB

Meta has to pay more than half a billion dollars in Spain for breaking data-protection rules but hey, that's only a fraction of the 16 billion per year it reportedly makes with ads for scams www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exklusiv: Gerhard Schröder ließ im Juni Akten aus seinem bisherigen Büro im Bundestag in die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung verfrachten, darunter 178 Ordner mit amtlichen Dokumenten, die das Kanzleramt eigentlich 2022 zurückgefordert hatte. Meine Recherche für @correctiv.org correctiv.org/transparenz/...

New: @timetodiscover.bsky.social looked into a terror threat against Berlin schools posted on Telegram and found a pattern that's consistent with similar threats in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and other countries correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

"Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Europe’s new pro-Kremlin bloc takes shape in the European Parliament" euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Wir recherchieren zu russischen Desinformationskampagnen, zu Sanktionsumgehung und Kriegsverbrechen. Mit Radio Sacharow bieten wir Exil-Journalist:innen eine Plattform. Dafür hat Russland @correctiv.org zur sogenannten „unerwünschten ausländischen Organisation“ erklärt. correctiv.org/in-eigener-s...

Russia has declared CORRECTIV an "undesirable organization" correctiv.org/in-eigener-s...