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Read the reporting in @rci.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...
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“Don't be intimidated by the fact that this is a technical artifact, an AI model. You don't need to be a coder in order to do these investigations.”
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“There are so many AI stories right now that just intersect every possibility. If you're covering healthcare, if you're covering the environment, if you're covering politics, AI has impacted your world.”
AI reporter @karenhao.bsky.social on why you shouldn’t be leaving AI reporting to the experts.
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We are joined by award-winning AI reporter @karenhao.bsky.social and Lighthouse reporter @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social who share tips and tricks on how to identify leads and break into AI reporting.
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Read the coverage in Le Monde www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Read the original investigation here www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
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And @thenewlede.bsky.social www.thenewlede.org/2025/02/prof...
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Read the stories about the fallout in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Another influential #MAHA supporter, The Food Babe, was also amongst those profiled. Despite this, the project got support from the USDA during Trump’s first presidency, highlighting tensions between commitment on health and to industrial agriculture.
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The firm, v-Fluence, said some of its clients terminated their contracts due to our reporting, and it had to lay off some of its workforce. It might also have new enemies in government - one secret profile was on Trump pick for Sec of Health Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Over the past few months, we have been trying to understand whether who you are plays a role in how you are sentenced in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system: Norway bsky.app/profile/lhre...
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Accessing verdicts and data for rigorous investigative reporting is hard to do in Europe. But in a new @lhreports.bsky.social investigation w/ NRK we built a database with 1000s of verdicts & conducted a rigorous analysis, providing a rare look inside www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
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It’s been a pleasure working with NRK. Kudos to the team.
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We have published a comprehensive methodology explaining our analysis and published the underlying code and results to Github.
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We found disparities beyond income, too. Even when accounting for other factors, women receive shorter sentences than men. Older judges hand out longer sentences than younger judges—and punish migrant defendants especially harshly.
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But for defendants like Frank and Jakob, this is about more than statistics. This is about the difference between freedom and imprisonment. NRK reports on how Frank went to prison – and a rich man went free
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Our findings in particular point to stark class injustice within Norwegian courts. Jakob and Frank are part of a larger pattern where those who earn the least are punished more harshly than those who earn the most.
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Income, age, gender and migration background are associated with sentencing, even when accounting for 12s of other factors, like convictions & aggravating factors
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So we built our own database containing 1000s of criminal cases, defendants and judges from Norway’s criminal justice system, which ranks as one of the most impartial in the world. All to answer the question: does who you are affect the sentence you receive?
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Data-driven criminal justice reporting is hard to do in Europe. Obtaining verdicts and usable data is difficult. Norway, which has no centralized database of verdicts, is no different
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Norway’s criminal justice system ranks as one of the most impartial in the world. Yet with partner NRK, we found that people are on trial not only for what they may have done, but for who they are.
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Jakob walked free, sentenced to community service. Frank was sentenced to three weeks in prison. Why?
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A joint piece with our friends at @lhreports.bsky.social and our own @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social, looking at how US climate-change denial and anti-vaccine protests have spread across the Atlantic — making even such a benign concept as the '15-minute city' into a battleground for conspiracy theories.
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Explore the data yourself with Big Local News at purl.stanford.edu/vv199dn8443 and get ideas for how to uncover a story at biglocalnews.org/content/news...
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We were able to investigate and uncover different barriers facing educated migrants, leading to widespread brain waste across Europe. But we have not covered every country in Europe.
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“It once again raises the question of whether the Netherlands is making optimal use of the human capital we have here,” said Paul de Beer, a member of cabinet advisor the Advisory Council on Migration.
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Many educated migrants never make it that far. Unemployment among highly educated immigrants is also twice as high in percentage terms as among people born in the Netherlands.
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while both groups face a daunting but surmountable degree recognition process, one group of professionals has a much easier time acquiring the much needed on the job experience and therefore are able to break into the job market, while the other does not. Find out why:
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Evaline Schot investigates the barriers for educated health and education professionals entering the labor force and discovers two starkly different realities:
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Even when migrants do get jobs that match their qualifications. If migrant workers were paid as much as comparable workers born in the Netherlands, the economy could grow by 1.4 billion euros annually. Read more:
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In total, migrants working below their level of qualifications compared to natives working more often in the right job cost the national economy just under 400 million euros in additional lost wages.
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To wrap up Part 3 of the brain waste series,
@nrc.nl in the Netherlands explains why two out of five migrants trained in the arts or social sciences work in the Netherlands below their level of education, often in jobs that do not require a university degree.
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Read the full investigation into Italian brain waste in Italian at wired.it/article/laur... and in English here:
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In Italy, migrants with a university degree are most likely found working as waiters and bartenders, domestic workers, including as hotel and office cleaners and helpers, or as shop salespersons. And it’s worse for women.
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...working fewer hours than they would like or unemployed than almost any other country in Europe.
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A deep dive into Italy, one of the countries with the highest rates of brain waste in Europe by WIRED Italy and @unbiasthenews.bsky.social explores why educated migrants are much more likely than natives to be working in jobs far below their qualifications...
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Check out the rest of our groundbreaking brain waste series published with @financialtimes.com @elpais.com @unbiasthenews.bsky.social France3tv @publico.pt www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio... & get a full breakdown of how we did it www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
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See their stories in the full programme with reports by Sophie Béchir and Marion David including an interview with @lhreports.bsky.social editor @maudjullien.bsky.social & economist Anthony Edo
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In France, immigrants are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed than natives. Brainwaste costs the country an estimated €7.3bn annually. IT engineer Anass El Doukhan, lawyer Nagla Mohamed Ali & tech entrepreneur Hamze Ghalebi have all faced a maze of bureaucratic hurdles
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Doctors like Arteniza have been protesting to demand better working conditions & President Macron’s promised change. But it’s too little too late for many. Tunisian Dr Mohammed Lahyeni chose to leave France for Germany where he is now paid equally.