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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 10/12/2025
Thrilled to talk with @neilbedi.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive into an emerging and alarming form of gambling www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers (Gift Article)
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
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Neil Bedi @neilbedi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Crypto casinos have become wildly popular with young people. Here's how the sites built an exploitative online marketing machine using celebrities like Drake and an army of livestreamers: w/ @aric.bsky.social Jenny Vrentas, Leo Dominguez and @iamrumz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers (Gift Article)
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs
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The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Although it’s still not available on streaming platforms, the Emmy-winning @bellingcat.com documentary will air on Germany’s BR channel (@BR_Presse) on 25 July. www.prisma.de/tv-programm/...
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Bellingcat - Der Wahrheit auf der Spur - BR - TV-Programm
Bellingcat, das englische Investigativ-Netzwerk, enttarnte die russischen Agenten, die ihren ehemaligen Kollegen und dessen Tochter im englischen Salisbury vergiftet hatten, sie klärten den Abschuss d...
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drone-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.bcBu.SlVgFdhrbLyK&smid=url-share
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Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next. (Gift Article)
Videos and satellite imagery show how the attack unfolded and its aftermath.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The Haitian government has signed a contract with Erik Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
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A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Buddhist monks at the New Masoeyein monastery in #Mandalay survey the remains of a toppled clock tower as their monastery building collapses before them right after the #MyanmarEarthquake. Live coverage on @nytimes.com : nyti.ms/4j1BhqY
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Neil Bedi @neilbedi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Online vigilantes, known as “pedophile hunters,” are now using real-life violence to build a following online, attacking more than 170 people since 2023. From @aric.bsky.social, @alizauf.bsky.social, @iamrumz.bsky.social, Joyce Ho, Natalie Reneau and me www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral (Gift Article)
With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Last year @neilbedi.bsky.social and I found a video on Instagram of a young man tying up an elderly man and beating him with a hammer, alleging he was a pedophile. This marks an escalation of the online pedophile hunting movement. We documented 170+ attacks in 2 years in a new investigation.
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Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We used radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen to build a timeline of the moments before an American Airlines flight and a US Army helicopter collided over DC. With Robin Stein, Dmitriy Khavin, and @ajcardia.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Crowded Skies, Thin Margins for Error: The Minutes Before the D.C. Air Disaster
Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that l...
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New: A deep dive on the gun used by Luigi Mangione to kill the UnitedHealthcare CEO. We spoke to ChairmanWon, the designer of the 3D printed frame, in this piece. From TM (tmgneff on Twitter) and, to a much smaller degree, me www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A mammoth investigation by Declan Walsh into the gold rush fueling Sudan's civil war. The paramilitary RSF has extracted $860m worth from mines it seized in Darfur this year alone. Who's profiting? The UAE. Gift link and 🧵 of some visual reporting. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...
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The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War (Gift Article)
Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Amid scenes of prisoners being freed in Syria, incl. from the "human slaughterhouse" at Sednaya, read Anne Barnard's investigation based on the Caesar files exposing systematic torture and extra-judicial executions by the Assad regime. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/w...
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Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent (Gift Article)
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
An Iranian oil tanker bound for Syria abruptly turned around in the Red Sea this morning, heading back to Iran after reports emerged the Assad government had fallen, ship tracking data shows. Iranian oil makes up a large share of Syria's import, and this reversal may cause extra fuel shortages.
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Neil Bedi @neilbedi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Pasco Sheriff settled a lawsuit from four people targeted by its intelligence-led policing program. The office acknowledged it had infringed on constitutional rights, agreed to not return to a similar program and will pay $105k. Full text: ij.org/wp-content/u...
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Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The Israeli military is expanding and fortifying the areas they control in central Gaza, signaling they may be there for the long haul. New story out now from Aaron Boxerman, @aric.bsky.social, Patrick Kingsley, and @ajcardia.bsky.social. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/w...
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Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay (Gift Article)
In recent months, soldiers have demolished more than 600 buildings to create a buffer area and expanded a network of bases, a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and video footage shows.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You can follow the NYTimes Visual Investigations team on this bsky list. Will add more as they sign up here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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