Articles by Forbidden Stories

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Forbidden Stories: The Bruno and Dom Amazon Project
Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – “This story must be told.” A collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, which involves over 50 journalists from 16 media organisations to continue the work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. We pursued their work because our future depends on it.

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Story Killers: Inside the Deadly Disinformation-for-Hire Industry
Forbidden Stories/Story Killers - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

14 Feb 2023 – Journalists investigating disinformation are threatened, jailed and in extreme cases, like that of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, killed. Forbidden Stories gathered more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets to expose the inner workings of the global, secretive world of disinformation mercenaries.

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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.

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Story Killers (Part 2): “Team Jorge”–In the Heart of a Global Disinformation Machine
Cécile Andrzejewski | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

15 Feb 2023 – In Part 2 of the “Story Killers” project, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined.

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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.

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Pegasus Project: All the Articles
Forbidden Stories | Global Investigative Journalism Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – Forbidden Stories Gathered All the Articles from the Pegasus Project Here

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About the Pegasus Project
Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jul 2021

18 Jul 2021 – Journalists from the Pegasus Project – more than 80 reporters from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab – sifted through these records of phone numbers and were able to take a peak behind the curtain of this surveillance weapon, which had never been possible to this extent before.

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The Pegasus Project Dossier
Forbidden Stories – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jul 2021

19 Jul 2021 –
*Pegasus: The New Global Weapon for Silencing Journalists
*The Rise and Fall of NSO Group
*Profiles | Journalists under surveillance
*All our partners’ articles
*A Worldwide Collaboration to Counter a Global Crime

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