In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

This foreign policy re-alignment we've heard so much about

Both in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in now the Israel/US war on Iran, military aggressors aren't even bothering to try to build consensus or justify what they're doing before they do it. Just pure force. Looking back, it's pretty clear that the 2003 invasion of Iraq broke everything.

NEW + WEIRD one from us @occrp.org The U.S. government charged and imprisoned a Chinese scam artist who who tried to create a Pacific city-state next to a U.S. ballistic missile range... but mixed his name up with his twin (who was already in prison in China) www.occrp.org/en/news/us-i...

Ryan wants to fall for this so badly

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

Telegram claims to be a secure "free speech" app But reporting reveals its links to Russia's intelligence agencies (Telegram's founder also visited Russia 50+ times while claiming to be in exile) Translatable captions here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pn...

Russian exile reporters just revealed how the Telegram app is connected to Putin's FSB intelligence service Makes a hell of a lot of sense Russian-language link here: istories.media/stories/2025...

Check out @danmcgarry.bsky.social on the ABC about our @occrp.org story revealing Andrew Tate's "golden" Vanuatu passport www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Le...

Remember late last year when @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc thought they had uncovered a *scandal* in the fact that investigative journalism outlets openly received U.S. grants? What a quaint idea Now, we can see the full effect of the brutal Trump aid cuts their reporting helped make happen

Exclusive: Andrew Tate was was granted a 'golden passport' by Vanuatu while under high-profile investigation in Romania www.occrp.org/en/news/excl... by myself, @danmcgarry.bsky.social, the @occrp.org team in the Pacific + Ana Poenariu, with Matt Bernadini of Intelligence Online

SCOOP from @occrp.org and friends: Andrew Tate got himself a passport from Vanuatu just after his 2022 arrest in Romania on charges including rape and human trafficking www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Glenn Greenwald, the Brazil-based journalist?

This is nuts. Son of a CIA deputy director was killed in Ukraine last year fighting for *Russia*, reports independent Russian outlet Important Stories. istories.media/en/news/2025...

The next gen: Aleph Pro www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

I once walked into a bar bathroom in New Orleans and an absolutely wasted Robert Downey Jr. stuck his head out of a stall like a meerkat with this exact expression. His bodyguard ushered me out a split second later but it is seared into my brain.

Update on crazy @occrp.org story about a pair of China-born "miracle water" scammers who infiltrated the U.N. and tried to create a crypto city on a radioactive atoll next to a U.S. army facility. They just got their passports revoked, leaving them in limbo abroad: www.occrp.org/en/news/conv...

Men who unbuckle and drop their pants at the urinal are basically The Joker to me. I'll smile and agree no matter what they say. I'll give them a wide berth. These are people with nothing to lose. They are unspeakably dangerous.

Scam call centers are destroying lives across the world. Now we’re putting the spotlight on them. Coming soon… #ScamEmpire

Why have I seen more great investigations from Wired in the last month than NYT and WaPo combined?

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

The US has never had a pro-corruption administration like this one: stopped enforcing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), fired 17 Inspectors General, pardoned Blagojevic… Now will stop enforcing most important anti-corruption legislation since FCPA that ended anonymous shell companies. YCMTSU

The 21st century has seen an incredible number of inspiring people’s uprisings — Ukraine, Georgia, HK etc — that were greeted with indifference or hostility by westerners who claim to be revolutionaries. Rather than try to learn from them, they chose instead to believe authoritarian govt propaganda.

I’ve also recently been accused of “treason” for reporting I’ve done about Giuliani in Ukraine. The censorship campaign from people who just moments ago were bleating about “free speech” is only going to get worse. We need to be ready and act with solidarity.

NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

it's like watching ants find their way around a puddle. you can do it little guys! keep working those tiny brains!

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

Asked about my wallet, the wallet inspector replies: “What wallet?”

I gotta figure out how to make money off this. It’s simply too good.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

That scene from Being John Malkovich where he goes into his own head but everyone is Dan Bongino and the only thing they say is his full name "Dan Bongino"

Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director is an incredible representation win for real life guys who look like Goldeneye N64 characters

Gulf of Alf

Any reason why Europe isn't right now giving that 300 million in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine? Cut the legs out from under Trump and Putin before they cut the legs out from under Europe and Ukraine.

People think Russian propaganda is overblown because Russiagate was a dud, but how do you explain this? In 10 years, one of the US’s two main political parties went from hostile to Russia to adopting every Kremlin talking point. Russia played US partisanship & negative polarisation masterfully.

It’s always worth emphasising that Russia just isn’t that economically important. They have gas, second-rate weapons, some minerals, and dash cam videos. They’re trading away Europe for some magic beans, except the beans are actually synthetic bath salts

Ken very upset that Tulsi didn't fly the flags of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics on stage

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

It brings me no pleasure to inform you that some Pepe dipshits are trying to pump an egg-themed shitcoin over on X

A crystal-clear @washingtonpost.com headline: "Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The tin foil hat brigade attacking @occrp.org and other investigative journalists are absurd, but they do serve a very serious purpose: protecting authoritarians, the corrupt and plutocrats from accountability

American conspiracy theorists Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger are online claiming a 2019 story I wrote for @occrp.org was a CIA / deep state operation to impeach Donald Trump Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...

Papua New Guinea’s central bank is standing by its governor despite @occrp.org revelations that she was subject of a police money laundering investigation when she was appointed www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...

Kiama Blowhole. Nature’s original K-hole

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

In 2019, I started an investigation into Hunter Biden in Ukraine. Then I found out that a lot of the stories I was reading about him and Burisma were bunk, being pushed by some very questionable characters. It was all very weird, because Hunter really was corrupt. So why did they make up a story?

It seems neither the Trump administration nor Elon Musk truly understand how independent investigative journalism works. We uncover wrongdoing, investigate it, publish our findings, and move on. @abelf.bsky.social explained it perfectly, read it

@abelf.bsky.social wrote a @occrp.org story that was cited by a whistleblower complaint that led to Donald Trump’s first impeachment. Now, it’s being used to attack foreign aid and the free press as part of a conspiracy theory. Here’s what really happened. www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...