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New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector. ig.ft.com/china-proper...

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NEW: Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are not isolated incidents, but seem to be part of a broader pattern that suggests a systematic policy. By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. on.ft.com/4i6Yzve

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You’ll be shocked - shocked! - that the memecoin world is full of absolute chancers. (By @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social)

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My story in the FT Weekend Magazine today - The Fugitive Prince: how a man with a claim to a royal title and a vast fortune made a deal with a notorious businessman that cost him more than he could have imagined. www.ft.com/content/51f8...

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New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

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2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels 2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest on.ft.com/3PwbnPC

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Another detail in the piece: in addition to the $18mn in daily prizes, filings show Musk's group distributed over $40mn in smaller payments ($47/$100) to swing state voters who signed or referred others to the petition.

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Remember Musk’s $1mn prizes ahead of the US election? It turns out the final winner worked for the Trump campaign — and was already traveling to its election-night party in West Palm Beach when he won. Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu

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including replies, Musk has posted more than 1180 times in seven days www.ft.com/content/8e91...

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I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

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NEW: Chinese companies have doubled their industrial footprint in Mexico in three years — a development that is emblematic of the closer ties that are poised to thrust Mexico into the centre of Trump’s trade war with Beijing. ig.ft.com/china-mexico...

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The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional. It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

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Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch share a great dispatch from inside Syria's new bureaucracy as it adapts meeting-room architecture, translates the regime's old euphemisms, and discovers a department for flags: www.ft.com/content/7efc...

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New: Inside the prison at the heart of Assad’s police state, Syrians search for the ghosts of loved ones that have haunted them since their enforced disappearances. W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social on.ft.com/41s7W3A

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Raya Jalabi's profile of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the ambitious 42 year old Islamist who sees himself as the next leader of Syria on.ft.com/3ZtNVXP

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Compelling interviews and videos from the ground in Damascus today, via the FT's Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper: “No one has suffered as much as the Syrian people... The entire city has risen up in joy — everyone is in the streets, shouting, shooting.” on.ft.com/3Bm8P2X (first 300 free)

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New FT investigation: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones www.ft.com/content/31b6...

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New: Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. Story w/ @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social + @cen4infores.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fTNzAL

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I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

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So @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social and I got our hands on Telegram’s first-half results: Claims Pavel Durov’s detainment had no “material impact” on operations Revenue surged over $500m, driven by a side-deal in cryptocurrency Toncoin *Value of crypto holdings surged to $1.3bn on.ft.com/4f3qjz3

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Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this? go.bsky.app/36JpUBi

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He forgot the first rule: don't get high on your own supply www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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The number of newsletters in my inbox about The Yellow Bittern tells me at least ~something~ is going right in the London local news ecosystem

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We built the greatest store of knowledge in human history, made all of it accessible in a few keystrokes… only to replace it with AI cartoons and summaries that read like 7th-grade book reports.

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A full-circle moment: Ben was one of the very best reporters covering the disinformation machine InfoWars created. Now he’s bought the place.

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history is so back

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We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

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I do recommend you read this. It helped me in 2016, and it might help you now. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The AP has just officially called Wisconsin — and with it, the presidency - for Donald Trump. ig.ft.com/us-elections...

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I wrote about the Palestinian Mathematical Olympiad team, their efforts to get to the international final and how they've managed to keep up their studies during the war on.ft.com/4hJW8PZ

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NEW: Sudan's brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country's health facilities. By Andres Schipani, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Chris Campbell, Sam Joiner @peter.andringa.me ig.ft.com/sudan-hospit...

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As someone in this cohort, I’ll offer a hint: no one I know ever answers phone calls from an unknown number! Phone polls with a 0.7% response rate are probably not getting a representative sample of our demographic…

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Free FT game for everyone to play - you can be the chancellor setting the budget

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New in today's FT: Eva Xiao and I spent weeks talking to election officials, sending FOIAs, and analyzing the right-wing media ecosystem to see how the movement to deny the election is already started — well before the votes are cast. www.ft.com/content/f698...

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Sobering @financialtimes.com Big Read from @peter.andringa.me and Eva Xiao on attempts to throw doubt on US election results. Gift link on.ft.com/3Ynoxne

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Ramy and his family used to live a comfortable middle class life in Gaza. After one year of war, his brother and sister have been killed and he lives with his heavily pregnant wife and his daughters in a makeshift tent. One family’s year in Gaza. ig.ft.com/gaza-one-year/

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The FT's Raya Jalabi spent time in the Beirut suburb bombarded by airstrikes this week, and brings back this visceral portrait: "There are possibly more cats than people left in Dahiyeh now." on.ft.com/3zM88iA (first 300 clicks free)

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NEW: The FT analysed satellite-based radar data, finding that over 3,100 buildings in Lebanon have been damaged or destroyed in the last two weeks. Experts told us the intensity of Israel's air campaign was "only comparable to Gaza." on.ft.com/4eOwrev

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Worked w/ @okr.bsky.social, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @peter.andringa.me on our US election game, to help explain some of the decision making process of presidential candidates trying to win the electoral college You can check it out/compete against other readers here [FREE]: ig.ft.com/us-election-...

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In this house we respect clever reverse-engineering 🫡

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Congratulations to an anonymous FT reader who's spent all morning submitting 811 entries to our little game! (And yes, I've checked - they seem to all be real attempts, not a bot.) ig.ft.com/us-election-...

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NEW: How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law For decades, Palestinian villagers say violent settlers have attacked locals and damaged property. Now some of these same settlers have been given the powers of the state. ig.ft.com/west-bank/

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We talk a lot about the (great!) new journalism happening in newsletters… but legal risks are a huge barrier to indie pubs, and frankly discourage investigative work. One lesson in how this often plays out:

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NEW: Ten days that turned the tables on Russia. The story of how Ukraine invaded its invader and changed the narrative of the war. By Chris Miller, Anastasia Stognei and the visual storytelling team. ig.ft.com/ukraine-incu...

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New: Kamala Harris has been on a digital spending (and fundraising) spree, doubling Trump’s YTD spend on FB + Google in just the last three weeks. (Trump’s campaign is also running far behind his 2020 spending pace.) www.ft.com/content/691e...

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