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Big Tech
As big chatbot platforms tighten safety rules, smaller AI apps are courting cast-off users with weak age checks – and reading their private chats
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Family Court Files
Language discrediting and trivialising mothers is widespread in sexual and domestic violence cases, new report reveals
Masked thugs burning the homes of ‘foreigners’ is part of a long history of racist violence in Northern Ireland
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Environment
Investors and churches argue HSBC breached global human rights duties after we revealed its deal with mining giant Glencore
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Lack of protections have left farmers vulnerable to a historic price swing that could put them out of business
Nearly a fifth of the largest farms have been linked to pollution in recent years
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MPs and campaigners call for full transparency on milk and cheese products after we reveal twofold growth in UK’s intensive cattle farms
The Enablers
How Rifaat al-Assad stashed his stolen millions – and eluded the lawyers trying to take him down
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Unite the Kingdom was billed as a people’s protest. On the ground, it looked like an operation to turn grievance into clips, donations and sales
Public sector pensions have ploughed billions into opaque investment funds which are financing ruinous gas projects on the US Gulf Coast
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London lawyers used a private government meeting to throw mud at the press and describe their super-rich clients as locked in a ‘David and Goliath’ battle
Prosecutors are looking into whether the digital finance firm has been used to launder proceeds of fraud, corruption and drug trafficking
Early findings show that vast number of unlicensed farms should indeed hold environmental permits – as we had feared
The hate economy
Hostile political rhetoric and harmful media coverage overshadows statistics that show net migration is falling
The conflict in Iran has shown up gas and oil as unsafe investments. It’s time our pensions left them behind
We've been reporting on unregulated experts because we hoped our scrutiny would help drive change. Now it has
Analysis: Until lawyers are barred from sending out empty threats on behalf of mega-rich clients, free speech remains in danger
Global Health
With the NHS on its knees, the UK has struck a secretive new drugs deal. But how was it made – and what will it really cost?
We reveal how the bullish tactics of a pharma giant have left taxpayers spending over the odds for its life-saving medicine
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Major new project reveals the aggressive strategies used by MSD to make billions from a drug many desperate patients can’t afford
Hear about our latest investigations, before they break
We sat down with the Empire of AI author to discuss the global power dynamics shaping today’s tech arms race
Reporting on financial secrecy throws up a constant challenge: who are the victims? So we set out to find them – and give their voices a platform
Local Power
How a mysterious late-night email blew open the biggest story of my career
COP in, COP out
We've been investigating the threats faced by Indigenous people for years. But ahead of this year's climate summit, I wanted to do something different.
