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Great scoop from ⁦@peter.andringa⁩.me The Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador and dumped in prison thought they were going to Venezuela. They had signed paperwork to go home. via @FT www.ft.com/content/dbfa...

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NEW: Some Venezuelans now in a prison in El Salvador signed docs believing they would be sent home, per families and an activist. Flight records and gov statements suggest plans for a direct deportation flight may have been scrapped amid rising tensions btw the US and Venezuela. on.ft.com/4bNdwRa

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New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics As tensions rise with Moscow, suspected cable sabotage has exposed the vulnerability of Europe's subsea infrastructure. “I can believe that one case could be an accident. Two cases in a row? Hardly. Three and more? Never." 👉 ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

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Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

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New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics. “It is impossible to drag an anchor for 150km without knowing you’re doing it”. We analysed suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea as European nations prepare themselves for a longer-term confrontation with Moscow. 👉 ft.com/baltic-sea

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Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics 📊 https://ig.ft.com/baltic-sea

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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 18 days ago • 121 comments

Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today? Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

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Our stories often downplay the computational lift that goes into getting them. Suffice it to say "a Financial Times analysis of blockchain data" denotes some really impressive data journalism work from @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social.

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Elon Musk’s Doge is not happy with government spending on consultants. Great little scoop by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social @chriscook.news @joemillerjr.ft.com 👉 on.ft.com/4klvr5n

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NEW: As the Chinese government struggles to ease the real estate crisis, state owned developers have been buying up land. In Beijing, the state now accounts for 60% of new land sales, with few private developers left. ig.ft.com/china-proper...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

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: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

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New: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy. Investigation with @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me

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New: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? In our latest visual story, we assess the US president’s plans for a national stockpile... W/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @nikasgari.bsky.social Dan Clark @inari-ta.bsky.social ky.social @ian-bott.bsky.social @raydouglas.bsky.social ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

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NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear. ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

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Thought-provoking column from @samjoiner.bsky.social on how AI is quietly creeping into our daily work and relationships. www.ft.com/content/814e...

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I wrote about the quiet AI revolution taking place at work. on.ft.com/4hr0zhQ

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The FT Visual Stories team's piece on the barriers to electric vehicle use is in @gijn.org's round up of this week's best data stories. @upyorkshire.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social

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NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

New: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we outline the changes needed to accelerate the transition. ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

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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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Scoop by @peter.andringa.me & Alex Rogers: The final winner of Musk’s $1mn election prizes worked for Trump's campaign and was on his way to its West Palm Beach victory party. The giveaway was subject to a lawsuit, but Musk’s Pac successfully argued the contest was a job posting. on.ft.com/409CDbm

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New: A handful of X accounts are fuelling Musk’s UK obsession. Twitter's former head of operations in Europe said he'd become “the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product.” He's also posted more than 1k times in the past week! www.ft.com/content/8e91...

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Fascinating piece on whether Musk is being radicalised by his own algorithm, rather than the other way round www.ft.com/content/8e91...

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

Still think #Arsenal need to buy a top class forward who can play across the front, but if Saka’s injury enables Nwaneri to show he can play on the right as well as in the left eight, it might turn out to be a blessing in disguise - especially if Saka comes back refreshed for the run in

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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲 Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

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New: @barneyjopson.bsky.social visited the tiny villages above Valencia, where the floods that ravaged the province first took hold. In this exquisitely written, heartbreaking and excoriating piece, he meets residents and experts to lay bare the scandal of a disaster foretold on.ft.com/406zbiP

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NEW: The largest map I've made at the @financialtimes.com, highlighting the tragic events in Valencia. @barneyjopson.bsky.social report looks into the failed implementation of risk reduction plans, building on known flood zones and failure to heed warnings on the day ft.com/content/6199... #dataviz

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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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This is an incredible story, brilliantly told by my colleague Tom Wilson. www.ft.com/content/eb3b...

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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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Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.

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“What she wrote that week was more than journalism — it was a testament to these people’s resilience and a call for the world to act. It is one of the finest pieces of war reporting ever published.” Paul Conroy on the 2012 siege of Homs and the murder of Marie Colvin www.thetimes.com/article/1334...

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

submitted 108 days ago • 229 comments

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

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NEW: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones. Kherson’s residents have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted campaign to empty a city by stalking its population with drones. Free to read: on.ft.com/3Vohxoa

submitted 111 days ago • 31 comments

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

submitted 111 days ago • 9 comments