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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔴🇲🇽 #México. Forbidden Stories está al tanto de las descalificaciones y de los actos intimidatorios que enfrentan el medio mexicano Todo en Contra, miembro de la #RedSafeBox, y el periodista Carlos Alberto Pérez.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🇵🇪 Geraldine Santos, periodista independiente peruana, se une a la #RedSafeBox de Forbidden Stories. Geraldine está especializada en temas relacionados con los derechos humanos, los pueblos indígenas y el crimen organizado en la Amazonía.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 Big News: Forbidden Stories and @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social join forces to launch a flagship, cross-border investigative lab, respond to mounting threats to press freedom in the U.S.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] How the Trump Administration’s Policies Are Stranding People in Mexico. Since January 2025, nearly 20,000 third country nationals removed from the United States have been sent to Mexico, about 80% of the total identified by our investigation.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇺🇸 #DeportationProject [NEW VIDEO] The full story behind our investigation. 32 journalists were arrested last year in the US Nearly 90% of them were covering ICE protests.
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🇺🇸 DEPORTATION PROJECT: Inside Trump Administration's Secret Deals To Expel People Worldwide
🇺🇸 What happens after people are deported from the United States and sent to countries they have no ties? In response to mounting pressure on journalists covering US immigration and deportation…
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] She had a US judge's protection against ever being sent back to Sierra Leone. Ghana sent her there anyway.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] « Faites savoir au monde entier » : au Cameroun, enquêter sur les expulsés des États-Unis peut mener en détention.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] Explore the Map Behind the US Third Country Deportation System When people are deported, but not to their countries of origin... Where do they go?
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] The Office of Remigration: “America First” and its overseas negotiations. Behind the Trump administration’s third-country deportation system is a little-known Department of State: the Office of Remigration.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🇺🇸#DeportationProject [NEW REVELATIONS TOMORROW]: We will take you inside the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide. Stay tuned.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🔴🏆 Eloïse Layan pré-sélectionnée pour le #PrixAlbertLondres 2026 Notre journaliste Eloïse Layan fait partie des finalistes du Prix Albert-Londres pour notre série d’enquêtes menée avec Wethzer Piercin de @ayibopost.bsky.social, en partenariat avec @LeMonde.fr et @societymagazine.bsky.social.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🇮🇶#Iraq: In his latest investigation, Iraqi journalist and #SafeBoxNetwork member Asaad Zalzali reveals what happened to journalists who were injured while covering the battles against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to @forbidden-stories.bsky.social and the journalists behind the #ViktoriiaProject, winner of the 2026 Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Collaboration & Partnerships 👏👏 Watch Laurent Richard and Juliette Garside discuss the investigation at Truth Tellers: tinyurl.com/37tesdvm
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🔏🔴 The SafeBox Network is growing stronger and expanding into new countries, with new members joining from across Africa and the Middle East.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔴 We are honored that the #ViktoriiaProject has won the 2026 Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships. Coordinated by Fbdn Stories, the investigation brought together 50 journalists from 12 media organizations to continue the work of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🔴 “I am stunned by the jury’ verdict. Despite the evidence, justice has failed in its duty to identify and hold accountable the mastermind behind Daphne’s assassination.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🔴 ”Un tel jugement envoie un signal d’impunité terrible à l’ensemble de la société maltaise.” - @laurentrichard.bsky.social 🇲🇹 À Malte, Yorgen Fenech, l’homme d’affaires accusé d’avoir commandité l’assassinat de la journaliste Daphne Caruana Galizia, a été acquitté par un tribunal.
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom @ecpmf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Her investigation cost her her life. Following the work of murdered journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, “Viktoriia Project” exposes a hidden system of enforced disappearance and torture against Ukrainian civilians by Russia: forbiddenstories.org/projects_pos... @forbidden-stories.bsky.social
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
☀️ Envie d’un peu de lecture cet été ? ☀️ Soutenez notre travail et recevez un magazine chez vous ! 📰🔴 Forbidden Stories s’est associé à @societymagazine.bsky.social, magazine français bimensuel reconnu pour ses récits au long cours, à l’occasion d’un numéro hors-série.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🇲🇽🎙️ « Como periodista, [...] he recibido mensajes amenazantes y enfrentado otros problemas graves, como el robo de cuentas, el hackeo de mi computadora y teléfonos, e incluso el robo, durante un par de días, del portal que dirijo ».
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🇯🇴🔴 Four journalists and one media have already joined the #SafeBoxNetwork following a workshop organised by Forbidden Stories and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ Network) in Amman on July 8 and 9, with more expected to join soon.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🇲🇽 #México: Forbidden Stories ha tomado conocimiento de las amenazas, intimidaciones, agresiones digitales y actos de vigilancia denunciados por la periodista mexicana María Teresa Montaño Delgado.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🇱🇧 #Liban : L'orient Le Jour, média membre du SafeBox Network, dévoile sa nouvelle enquête sur Antoun Sehnaoui : “Une ombre sur le Liban”.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
👉 [RED SAFEBOX | MARIANA MORALES] 🇲🇽 A quienes amenazan a periodistas: la intimidación no sirve. Mariana Morales forma parte de la Red SafeBox. Si algo le impide seguir investigando, su trabajo no terminará con ella. Continuará, y la historia que intentaron silenciar llegará aún más lejos.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🤝 #SafeBoxNetwork | [NEW PARTNERSHIP] We first met Dilrukshi Handunnetti, Co-Founder and Trustee of the Center for Investigative Reporting (Sri Lanka), at GIJC25 in Kuala Lumpur. 🧵 1/3
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🔴 #ProjetPegasus | [NOUVELLE VIDÉO EN LIGNE] 👉 Pour la première fois, des captures d’écran de l’interface de Pegasus, obtenues par Forbidden Stories, sont publiées.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🔴 #PegasusProject | [NEW VIDEO ONLINE] 👉 For certain targets, Moroccan intelligence does not rely on a single tool. It may use several at once. That is what it did to Omar Radi, a journalist and outspoken critic of the Moroccan authorities who has joined our consortium:
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦🇬🇦 [New Investigation] How Morocco allegedly used Pegasus to spy on an African ally In 2019, as Gabon faced a major succession crisis following Pr. Ali Bongo’s stroke, the phone numbers of several prominent Gabonese figures appeared on a list of potential Pegasus targets attributed to Morocco.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🔴 #ProjetPegasus | [NOUVELLE VIDÉO EN LIGNE] 👉 « Seule la DGST a accès à Pegasus. Je vous explique tout ça avec le regard de quelqu'un qui a travaillé de l'intérieur, qui n’en n’a pas seulement entendu parler ».
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦 [New Investigation] Codename “Morgan”: How Morocco accessed Pegasus through Israel and the United Arab Emirates. 🌍 From secret demonstrations inside a villa in Rabat to training sessions at NSO’s headquarters in Herzliya, our investigation retraces the early stages of Morocco’s access to Pegasus
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦 [New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. 🌍 Five years after the Pegasus Project, our new investigation reveals the inner workings of the spyware and how Morocco used it to monitor and repress dissident voices, both inside and outside the country.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔴 #PegasusProject | [NEW VIDEO ONLINE] 👉 “Imagine your own phone capturing photos of you without your knowledge. Or a computer at an internet café is infected with malware before you use it. Or your home is bugged with microphones."
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦 [New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. For the first time, our consortium is publishing screenshots of the Pegasus spyware interface.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦 [New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. French PM Sébastien Lecornu is travelling to Rabat on July 15 and 16 with twelve ministers for a “high-level meeting” intended to cement the reconciliation between France and Morocco.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/07/2026
Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets A former member of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has helped to provide an unprecedented insight into how the north African state used hacking software – including Pegasus spyware – to target journalists, human rights defenders, French politicians and Spanish cabinet ministers and police officers. Pegasus, which is manufactured by the Israel-based NSO Group, allows its operator to access everything on a target’s mobile phone, including emails, text messages and photographs. It can also activate the phone’s recorder and camera, turning it into a listening device. Continue reading...
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Antton Rouget @anttonrouget.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
De nouveaux documents et témoignages révélés par @forbidden-stories.bsky.social prouvent que le Royaume du Maroc est bien derrière l’utilisation du logiciel espion #Pegasus contre Emmanuel Macron, des ministres, opposants et journalistes (dont @mediapart.fr)👇
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Le régime marocain a bien utilisé le logiciel-espion Pegasus, notamment contre des ministres français
Cinq ans après le “projet Pegasus”, alors que le Premier ministre et une partie du gouvernement sont en déplacement au Maroc, nous publions une nouvelle enquête coordonnée par Forbidden Stories, montr...
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🇲🇦🇫🇷 [Nouvelle enquête] #PegasusProject : Quand la France voulait acheter Pegasus, le Maroc espionnait ses ministres. S. Lecornu se rend ces 15 et 16 juillet à Rabat, accompagné de douze ministres, pour une « rencontre de haut niveau » qui doit consacrer le rabibochage entre la France et le Maroc.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🔴🇲🇦[New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. For years following the publication of the #PegasusProject in 2020, Morocco has been asking for evidence on them spying on journalists. We are releasing them today.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🇲🇦#PegasusProject [NEW REVELATIONS TOMORROW]: We will take you inside Morocco’s spying machine. Stay tuned. #Pegasus: Révélations sur l’appareil de surveillance marocain. En ligne dès demain. #مشروع بيغاسوس [كشوفات جديدة غداً]: نأخذكم إلى قلب منظومة التجسّس المغربية. تابعونا.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🔴🇧🇩 Five Bangladeshi journalists have already joined the #SafeBoxNetwork following Forbidden Stories’ workshop in Bangladesh.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🔴 Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo, journaliste centrafricain réfugié en France, à l'origine de l’enquête #PropagandaMachine publiée par Forbidden Stories et ses partenaires en novembre 2024, s’est vu refuser l’asile par les autorités françaises.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🔴#MozambiqueExosed: New video online youtube.com/shorts/tKaDa... In partnership with @evidentmedia.org @observateurs.france24.com @papertrailmedia.de @zdfde.bsky.social @source-material.org
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Unpublished UN report implicates energy workers and Mozambique soldiers
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Iranian journalist Saeed Aganji (IranGate) faces coordinated attacks on his social media, including repeated attempts to restrict and suspend his accounts, which has been down several times.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🔴 In an age where Big Tech companies are flooding our information ecosystem and fake news spreads six times faster than facts, reliable journalism is what we need most.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎯+400K views. The video in which Amalfi Rosales, a SafeBox Network member, speaks directly to the people threatening her, has now reached more than 400,000 views across our platforms, mainly in Colombia.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🔴👁️ In Mozambique, investigating corruption and environmental crime can come at a very high cost.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] MozambiqueExposed #2: Rapport inédit de l’ONU : des employés du projet gazier mené par TotalEnergies accusés d’exploitation sexuelle, l’armée mozambicaine de violences sexuelles.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔴🎙️ « Forbidden Stories, l’assurance vie du journalisme d’investigation ». Dans une interview par Alexandra Klinnik pour Méta-Média (@francetelevisions.bsky.social), Laurent Richard, fondateur de Forbidden Stories, revient sur l’importance du journalisme collaboratif.
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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] MozambiqueExposed #2: Rapport inédit de l’ONU : des employés du projet gazier mené par TotalEnergies accusés d’exploitation sexuelle, l’armée mozambicaine de violences sexuelles.
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