What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town

Ben-Gvir joins hundreds of Israelis to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

State official leads armed incursion into contested religious site while asserting territorial ownership, exemplifying authoritarian… [more]

The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)

Documents the normalization of pervasive facial recognition technology across surveillance infrastructure and consumer devices, enabling… [more]

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Reveals systematic privacy erosion through corporate AI systems where users' intimate uploads and prompts are reviewed by human… [more]

What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town

Documents how foreign corporate investment in Venezuelan gold mining has failed to improve exploitative working conditions, exemplifying… [more]

Ben-Gvir joins hundreds of Israelis to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

State official leads armed incursion into contested religious site while asserting territorial ownership, exemplifying authoritarian… [more]

The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)

Documents the normalization of pervasive facial recognition technology across surveillance infrastructure and consumer devices, enabling… [more]

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Reveals systematic privacy erosion through corporate AI systems where users' intimate uploads and prompts are reviewed by human… [more]

Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says

Documents systematic corporate and fossil fuel industry capture of university governance to suppress climate research and reshape… [more]

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

Article documents security failures in advanced AI systems and unauthorized access by hostile actors, exemplifying risks of concentrated… [more]

Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds

Widespread chemical contamination of water infrastructure affecting millions represents systemic environmental collapse and corporate harm… [more]

Northern Ireland: 25 years after journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered, CPJ and Amnesty call for new investigation

Unsolved assassination of investigative journalist combined with police negligence and resulting impunity creates systemic censorship… [more]

“I lost a friend following an unsafe abortion in Malawi”

Article documents systemic barriers to safe abortion access in Malawi, forcing women into dangerous unsafe procedures—a clear violation of… [more]

Venezuelans demand opposition leader Machado's return

Describes authoritarian suppression of opposition leader and electoral rights in Venezuela, demonstrating systematic political repression… [more]

Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow

Documents authoritarian political repression through indefinite detention of dissidents and use of prisoner releases as political… [more]

Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules

Tech corporations exploit regulatory loopholes to circumvent pollution controls, demonstrating corporate power overriding environmental… [more]

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

Article documents systemic failures in juvenile detention and capital punishment, revealing authoritarian governance through institutional… [more]

The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Documents how massive corporate data center expansion drives climate crisis while public attention focuses narrowly on local opposition… [more]

Exclusive: Feds Denied Ballistics Expert Access to Prairieland Defendant Who Got 100 Years in Prison

Documents systematic denial of expert testimony and judicial interference in a political trial where activists face extreme sentences (100… [more]

Syria: Reconstruction Deals Lack Critical Rights Framework

Describes how Syria's transitional government is implementing billions in reconstruction deals without mandatory human rights frameworks… [more]

Ahead of trial, CPJ, partners demand release of detained photojournalist Hamdi al-Zaeem

Documents systematic state persecution of journalists through prolonged pre-trial detention, false accusations, and mass incarceration—a… [more]

Niger Rejects Key Rights Recommendations at UN Review

Military junta's systematic rejection of UN human rights recommendations demonstrates authoritarian governance through arbitrary… [more]

He Ran a Top Lady Gaga Fan Page. Then He Vanished.

Documents state persecution and imprisonment of activist for pro-democracy protest participation, demonstrating authoritarian suppression… [more]

Could AI firms be held responsible for mass shootings?

Explores corporate accountability gaps in AI development where firms may escape responsibility for harmful outputs, exemplifying how… [more]

OpenAI tools post user images from ChatGPT online

OpenAI's unauthorized sharing of user-uploaded images with third parties exemplifies corporate control through algorithmic systems,… [more]

‘Nowhere else to go’: Gaza families shelter in buildings that may collapse

Documents systematic displacement and forced habitation in structurally unsafe conditions resulting from military conflict, representing… [more]

White House bars CNN from travelling with Trump on Air Force One

Targeted exclusion of a major news outlet from official access represents state-level censorship and suppression of independent media… [more]

‘Shaken faith’: Why are India’s elections under unprecedented scrutiny?

Documents erosion of democratic institutions and questioning of election legitimacy in a major democracy, indicating authoritarian… [more]