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How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable on one time codes to save time and money

16.06.2025

Two Factor Insecurity

How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money

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11.06.2025

The Limits of Ethical AI

Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI

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20.05.2025

Forest Fraud: National Greenwashing Program

Satellite imagery analysis and inside sources reveal deforestation and questionable commodities across the Philippines’ national greening program

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01.02.2025

Inequality Before the Law

Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system.

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14.01.2025

Computer says no fly

Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships

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08.12.2024

Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande

More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.

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METHODOLOGIES / BACKLIGHT

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11.06.2025

How we investigated Amsterdam’s attempt to build a ‘fair’ fraud detection model

Amsterdam spent years trying to build an unbiased welfare fraud algorithm. Here’s what we found when we analyzed it.

31 05 2025

What journalists can learn from content creators

We dive into how news content creator journalists are building trust, communicating complexity, and making journalism not just informative, but engaging.

31.01.2025

How we investigated sentencing bias in Norway’s criminal justice system

Norway’s criminal justice system is regularly hailed as a model — but is it truly impartial?

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