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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Glenn Greenwald, the Brazil-based journalist?

Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I once walked into a bar bathroom in New Orleans and an absolutely wasted Robert Downey Jr. stuck his head out of a stall like a meerkat with this exact expression. His bodyguard ushered me out a split second later but it is seared into my brain.

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Asked about my wallet, the wallet inspector replies: “What wallet?”

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I gotta figure out how to make money off this. It’s simply too good.

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It brings me no pleasure to inform you that some Pepe dipshits are trying to pump an egg-themed shitcoin over on X

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The tin foil hat brigade attacking @occrp.org and other investigative journalists are absurd, but they do serve a very serious purpose: protecting authoritarians, the corrupt and plutocrats from accountability

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

American conspiracy theorists Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger are online claiming a 2019 story I wrote for @occrp.org was a CIA / deep state operation to impeach Donald Trump Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Kiama Blowhole. Nature’s original K-hole

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. I'm proud to say that @occrp.org is getting some ripping stories out real soon.

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is really good. It made me realise the last couple weeks have made me spiral into destructive online habits — even within the last hours. No more internecine arguments, no more dunks. From now on, we use the internet to inform and organise. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die” In the future, we may refer to 2025 as the year of Elon Musk’s Famine www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

POV: An American tankie is trying to prove to you that it’s OK that USAID is being gutted because the CIA is actually secretly behind every change of government in the world

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This story about about the White House ordering the CIA to share the names of employees via unclassified email is jaw-dropping. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Last year @mediapart.fr, @yphilippin.bsky.social, @ryangrim.bsky.social etc put out a false hit piece trying to smear OCCRP reporters as US agents. Now that Trump and Musk are in charge, they are using this conspiracy theory to slash humanitarian assistance. Here we see Wikileaks gleefully join in

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The guy influencing Musk to attack investigative journalism, Mike Benz, is an anti-semitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist, who used to hide behind anonymity until he was unmasked via real journalism: nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I have stumbled across the part of YouTube that is West African giant soup bare hand eating mukbangs, home to such hits as "MY WIFE NEEDS FOOD OGBONO SOUP/OKRA AND FUFU AFRICAN FOOD MUKBANG ASMR SHOW" I can't deny it looks pretty good though

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This story about a serial pest who was elected to a local council in NSW and is harassing everyone has some absolutely insane details. It’s also just premium grade Australiacore www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Emails show that John Goetz, the NDR journo key to @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc's hatchet job into @occrp.org, misleadingly represented himself while reporting. He also obtained inconvenient (for him) evidence *16 months ago* that showed OCCRP is editorially independent of US donors

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Depends what kind of juice you’re talking about

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

They have hit rock bottom. Not content with the authoritarian backlash they have provoked against journalists around the world with their inaccurate reporting, @mediapart.fr has labeled OCCRP a "criminal organization". Libelous and extremely dangerous info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This includes targeted harassment of Anand Mangnale, who has exposed alleged corruption by India’s Adani conglomerate They’re also upset with reporting we have done on how Pegasus spyware, produced by the NSO group of the US’s major ally Israel, was used to spy on citizens

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The predictable anti-journalist fallout from @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc’s deceptive and unethical story on OCCRP continues. See here how Narendra Modi’s BJP has exploited it, thanks to @ryangrim.bsky.social et al falsely implying we are under editorial influence from the US

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The fact that OCCRP's largest single income is via US aid grants has long been publicly disclosed. It's on our website: occrp.org/en/about-us/... Nonetheless, they released an "investigation" that dishonestly claims this was hidden.

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In their deliberately misleading hit piece, @mediapart.fr @ryangrim.bsky.social etc claim to uncover @OCCRP's "hidden" US funding. Nonsense. We've always disclosed this: www.occrp.org/en/about-us/... This is spin, not an "investigation". They are smearing and endangering investigative reporters

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We are editorially independent and this piece doesn’t even bother to prove otherwise. Indeed, they give a (very incomplete) rundown of investigations we have done that prove our bona fides. So what exactly is the point of this article? And why risk the safety of investigative journalists?

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I sell big ass ants and big ass ants accessories

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

LAX gift shop. Absolutely brutal.

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Uh oh I guess I’m going to have to go turn dark gothic maga now

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Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Azerbaijan is mad that @occrp.bsky.social investigations embarrassed them during COP 29, so one mouthpiece, Fakt Yoxlab, put out a report claiming our own Eli Moskowitz is a "ghost journalist" who doesn't exist. Sadly, I can confirm he is real PLUS he looks like my dad circa 1987