Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/07/2026Governments were forced to spend years defending measures intended to protect public health. Big Food lost more than 80% of the cases examined. But losing does not mean the lawsuits had no effect: legal challenges delayed the implementation of some public health measures for years. 110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/07/2026Companies sometimes tried to hide their names. Of the cases brought by identifiable companies, more than one in three were linked to just 9 parent groups, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and confectionery giant Mondelez. 120
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/07/2026Between 2010 and 2025, at least 239 lawsuits were filed against public health policies in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, the US, India, and the UK. Food companies lost most of the time, but these cases add up to an extraordinary 595 years of litigation. 121
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/07/2026Exposed: Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies Our investigation, #BigFood vs The People reveals how food giants use tobacco-style legal tactics to challenge public health regulations around the world. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio... 2158
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 29/05/2026Sales of extra services have become central to VFS’s business: our analysis of 2K+ Swedish visa applicant receipts from 16 countries indicates they account for 30% of its revenue The company's operating profits have surged from €31m to €172m in 7 years 110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 14/05/2026The RSF built a berm around the city, trapping people inside. We reviewed hundreds of satellite images captured between April and October 2025, mapped the construction of the berm around El Fasher. 141
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 14/05/2026@amnesty.org 's Janine Morna told us “There was a time before the takeover of El Fasher where so much could’ve been done to save lives. As an international community we couldn’t even provide the most basic of protection.” 132
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 14/05/2026Halima Abdallah fled El Fasher with her 4 children in December 2024. In May 2024, Halima’s 7 year old daughter went outside to use a public toilet and was attacked by RSF soldiers. 122
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 14/05/2026Abulgasim is a citizen journalist. He told us “Sometimes I would be the first person to find the wounded and people killed by bombs. Sometimes I’d find an entire family that was killed. No one left.” 121
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 14/05/2026Ruqaya escaped El Fasher on foot. During the siege the RSF killed 12 members of her family. Her 21 year old son is still missing. 131
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 09/02/2026It's not often we get to report on hopeful news Alaa Hamoudi won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks. @bdeeb.bsky.social tells how he reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat.com. And how this evidence ended up in court. 19836
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 12/12/2025“And it ended up me being in this place. And I was with a fake name, with a fake haircut, and funny looking glasses and a camera in my watch, walking around all these Nazis and neo-Nazis.” 1103
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/10/2025His elder daughter “remembers her father every day.” “The moments when she asks why the Taliban shot her father are the most painful,” his widow told us. “To this day I don't have an answer to this and other countless questions she has.” 110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/10/2025Ali Gul Hadari–an elite commando unit soldier–was one of them. He worked closely with US Special Forces during the war, but was left behind when the US pulled out. Last year, the Taliban killed him in front of his wife and daughters. 110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 15/10/2025🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out 712679
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/09/202531-year-old Farid Djassadi lost both his legs during an interception. Court documents we obtained show he fell into the sea as the police were pursuing his boat, causing his legs to be severed by the police boat’s motor 140
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/09/2025We found training videos demonstrating the dangerous interception tactics described by the officers we spoke to 132
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/09/2025To cross-check these accounts, We obtained case files documenting 4 deadly incidents, as well as police & gendarmerie reports. We interviewed 6 serving & former French officials who had been posted to Mayotte. They confirmed aggressive tactics were part of routine practice 141
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/09/2025Officially, French police are only allowed to rescue people at sea, and not to intercept them b/c it’s too risky. But 20 survivors from 17 different incidents told us the police had circled or collided with their boats, sometimes causing them to capsize 141
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 16/09/2025REVEALED: French police have caused dozens of drownings by violently intercepting small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte. Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel, to try to stop people from reaching the UK. 34864
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 11/09/2025Partner BBC Eye follows Reem al-Kari as she searches for her son Karim. The 2yr old went missing when Reem’s husband Osama was kidnapped by security services. He would now be 15. Reem navigates a bureaucratic labyrinth of missing and falsified records. youtu.be/LymByDEqWkM 1110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 11/09/2025Mohammed Ghbeis was seized from an incubator in Damascus while only days old. By the time Mohammed’s mother Iman was able to see him in prison, he was a year old, taking his first steps. They couldn’t recognise each other. Ghbeis archive: Mohammed Ghbeis newborn 1160
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 02/06/2025What would journalism look like if it wasn’t written for an editor, but for your best friend over dinner? In this Backlight episode, we dive into how news content creator-journalists are redefining the way stories are told and what traditional journalists can learn from them. 162
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 21/05/2025Satellite imagery analysis corroborates whistleblowers' testimony exposing widespread greenwashing across the Philippines’ national reforestation program. Davao Today, @thibico.bsky.social and Lighthouse prove instead of restoring forests, it’s often fueling deforestation. 🧵 175
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 17/04/2025Help turn our investigations into powerful visual content. You’ll work with our media partners to create high-impact videos for social media & more and help shape how investigative journalism reaches new audiences. Remote | €40K–€50K | Full-time apply.workable.com/lighthouse-r... 064
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 11/03/2025Exciting news! Our investigation Smoke and Lies has been shortlisted for the @cen4infores.bsky.social Open Source Film Awards. A collaboration with La Verdad Juárez & El Paso Matters. www.info-res.org/film-awards/... 0104
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 07/03/2025On this episode of #Backlight, award-winning reporters @karenhao.bsky.social and @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social explain how to report on #AI. 162
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 01/02/2025We found disparities beyond income, too. Even when accounting for other factors, women receive shorter sentences than men. Older judges hand out longer sentences than younger judges—and punish migrant defendants especially harshly. 120
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 01/02/2025Our findings in particular point to stark class injustice within Norwegian courts. Jakob and Frank are part of a larger pattern where those who earn the least are punished more harshly than those who earn the most. 121
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 01/02/2025In 2022, two men were convicted for driving under the influence. Frank in a cheap, old car, unemployed with debt. Jakob in a new, expensive Audi, worth millions. Their cases were nearly identical, but their sentences could not have been further apart. 12513
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 27/11/2024Secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent. We reveal with @SvD how Sweden built this system then stonewalled journalists 22312
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 24/11/2024The Taliban-run Kabul municipality says they are combating land grabbing, helping displaced ppl return and investing in infrastructure. But we found a darker reality: violent evictions leaving families homeless & without compensation (image from Kabul Municipality X) 110
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 24/11/2024The Taliban has demolished over 1.5 million sqm in Kabul, displacing thousands of people and hitting marginalised communities hardest. Our new investigation w/ @cen4infores.bsky.social - Afghan Witness, Zan Times, Etilaatroz, & @theguardian.com 1167
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/05/2024The gravest human rights violations were told to Lighthouse by 9 people who were attacked by dogs & beaten in the south of Morocco by security forces, near the Mauritania border Some were abandoned in the desert tied to each other, suffering from their wounds 000
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 22/05/2024The system works the same way in all 3 countries: people rounded up on the streets, taken from their homes or intercepted at sea They're detained, loaded onto buses & left in the desert without food or water, at risk of kidnapping, extortion & sometimes death 010
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 19/03/2024Mexico has a massive migrant detention system, which continues to grow with US support. Our findings raise serious concerns about the safety of people caught up in this anti-immigration dragnet 020
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 19/03/2024Even the 27 survivors, several of whom we interviewed, will suffer lifelong health consequences. We discovered that blocked exits, fire escapes and no working fire extinguishers turned the center into a death trap 020
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 19/03/2024After the fire, Mexico's president blamed the deaths on the cell door keys not being at the facility. We spoke with survivors, examined 16hrs of CCTV, 1000s of documents & mapped evidence onto a 3D model to prove that the keys never left the facility. 020