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Daisy Bata

@batadaisy.bsky.social
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investigative journo & documentary producer @bbc @channel4 @itv @mindhouse @hardcash @keofilms etc. specialise in OSINT, cyber crimes, crypto, algorithms & tech also writer/director of scripted shorts ("Bloodbuzz")

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A hatch-year Eastern Screech Owl recovering from a window strike. Wings Wildlife posted her with many other birds of prey, urging to help resupply stocks of frozen rats and mice. Want to donate to Wings Wildlife? wingswildlifecentre.com/donate Source: fb.com/833227389002... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
A Screech Owl with supremely bombastic stink eye is wrapped at the armpits in a minty white towel, wings akimbo. Her olive-grey eyes, one a half moon, the other a crescent, match her beak in colour. The faintest outline of "ear" tufts appear on her fuzzy silhouette, before a plain yellow-green background the tone of under-ripe avocado.
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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Patti Smith holding a copy of Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This looks fucking excellent - @benmckenzie.bsky.social saying what a lot of us have thought for a long time! youtu.be/hEXxAOFqv4U?...
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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Official Trailer UHD
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
wired.com
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! - Brecht
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 16/09/2025
[after looking at the news] well, it's time to go and do something relaxing like watch horror movies for the rest of my life
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/09/2025
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/09/2025
We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk: “Martin Luther King was awful. He’s not a good person. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.” Boris Johnson:
The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy, and a sign of the utter desperation and cowardice of those who could not defeat him in argument. Charlie Kirk has been killed not for espousing extremist views - because he didn't. He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain. The world has a shining new martyr to free speech. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm sorry but in the UK the Chipocalypse is only bad news for seagulls.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
After the earthquake in Afghanistan, "many male rescuers helped men but not women." The Taliban's "prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
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After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Football’s ‘Post Office’ scandal: The players who lost £100m
Special report: Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand among those snared in alleged investment fraud scheme, with some even losing their homes
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Premier League footballers lose millions through financial advisers
Affected footballers joined the V11 campaign group comprising individuals who invested with Kingsbridge Asset Management in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Glad to see our documentary making some waves in politics! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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V11 group: MPs want investigation into case of ex-Premier League players who lost money
Three parliamentarians want an investigation into the case of a group of former Premier League players who say they were victims of
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
4 stars for our film in the Guardian!
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
One of my first investigative documentary jobs was on a film that is airing tonight! Took a while to get it out there but I'm sure it'll be worth it. It was a huge job, and I worked closely with two private investigators. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... #documentary #football #storyville #bbc
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Premier League players lost millions in investments
Danny Murphy, Brian Deane and Craig Short are part of a group of footballers who say they are victims of
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns. A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns. A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes! It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Sophie Rottenberg took her own life this year. Before doing so, she turned to ChatGPT for help. “A.I. catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst,” writes her mother, Laura Reiley, "to pretend she was doing better than she was, to shield everyone from her full agony.”
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Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
The medical profession has clear rules and responsibilities. What about the chatbots?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hot take but maybe that's what a healthy social media site, not built on growth at any cost, looks like?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/08/2025
What is required for someone to be an American? 30% of Republicans say being White is very or somewhat important. www.pbump.net/o/what-makes...
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/08/2025
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
wired.com
TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.
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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 31/07/2025
New! CourtListener now has AI-generated transcripts of more than three million minutes of circuit court oral argument recordings. You can: ✅ Search the full text of the recordings ✅ Set custom alerts and make custom podcasts ✅ Follow along with transcripts Learn more here: free.law/2025/07/31/o...
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Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener!
With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.
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Starling (based on the novel by Stephen King) @darlingstarling.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Emblematic of a political establishment completely out of touch with young people. What did they think would happen? 🤦
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2025
The country’s newly formed space agency wants to establish a lunar base by 2045. www.wired.com/story/south-...
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South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon
The country’s newly formed space agency wants to establish a lunar base by 2045.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time
Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment
Precursor to a lawsuit also claims the Palestinian activist was maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Damn this is good. "Permissiveness [...] is the one tangible political reward the right can deliver to young Americans [...] In place of concrete policy that could benefit this cohort"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
So he's basically built a machine for spreading automated Nazi propaganda
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Trump officials are incensed about the popularity of the ICEBlock app, which shares the locations of ICE agents, and are threatening to prosecute its developer and CNN for covering it. Lawyers tell @thiccreese.bsky.social that would be blatantly unconstitutional: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
wired.com
Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional
The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app.
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Alongside investigative journalism and documentary producing, I just finished my first short narrative film. It's about a conspiracy theorist ... You can find out more on insta @bloodbuzz_film I couldn't be more proud! Coming to a festival near you soon (I hope) 🩸🦟
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Google Veo 3 providing new and exciting ways to do racism.
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Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It's hard to believe this is happening but there are multiple videos of multiple instances now. Utterly insane.
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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When you discover a year-old potato in the back of the pantry cupboard:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Meta's AI discover feed is (still!) leaking user conversations with its AI. With its scale/import in shaping people's perception of reality, it is hard to think of a worse actor in the AI space than Meta, or to imagine a more invasive, user-hostile product than this www.404media.co/meta-invents...
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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/06/2025
Bluesky is dying... or Bluesky helped create one of the most effective spontaneous protest movements of the year?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/06/2025
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/06/2025
Operation Spider’s Web was an audacious Ukrainian sneak attack that caused billions of dollars in damage to Russian warplanes — using drones that cost as little as $600. Our reporter explains what the attack revealed about modern warfare. Listen to "The Daily."
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Inside Operation Spider’s Web
What Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian airfields revealed about modern warfare.
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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese semiconductor factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, unequal treatment and the threat of deportation, report Hsiuwen Liu and @michaelbeltran.bsky.social for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/filipin...
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Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.
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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones. With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death.
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‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones
With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/05/2025
The company behind TeleMessage, the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official, was breached earlier this month in 20 minutes. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
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How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Freedom of the Press Foundation says it has notified Paramount that it intends to file a shareholder lawsuit if the company settles President Trump’s CBS News complaint: freedom.press/issues/we-pl...
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We plan to sue if Paramount settles with Trump over CBS lawsuit
Freedom of the Press Foundation notifies Paramount executives of liability and demands preservation of records
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