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Peter Andringa

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Journalist/technologist, @financialtimes.com Visual Investigations 📍London ✉️ peter.andringa@ft.com 🔏 Signal: @peterandringa.01 ft.com/news-tips

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
FT exclusive: Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles in one of the most significant known transfers of strategic military technology from Moscow to Tehran www.ft.com/content/6cf3...
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Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles
Leaks reveal programme behind one of the most significant known transfers of military technology from Moscow to Tehran
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry was a poet who saw the world just a little more clearly and generously shared glimpses of it with the rest of us. May he rest in peace, enjoying good peaches forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
A Meeting
By Wendell Berry

In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: 'How you been?'
He grins and looks at me.
'I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.'
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My piece on the Colombian mercenaries in Sudan - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @justinlynch.bsky.social Here's a gift link: as.ft.com/r/868d9fe4-1...
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 30/07/2026
The DRC is the world's richest source of cobalt, critical for batteries. But its land contains another hidden mineral: Uranium. An investigation from FT and Lighthouse Reports finds the cobalt industry often ignores radioactive material in its exports — creating both health and proliferation risks.
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DR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uranium
Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs
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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fascinating, beautifully written magazine cover story by @samlearner.bsky.social on how vibe coding is overwhelming the unsung human caretakers who keep the web running. Your weekend must read right here as.ft.com/r/1e761e4c-c...
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 15/06/2026
Unfortunately, reporting does take longer than tweeting
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 15/06/2026
Credit to my FT colleagues' follow-up, which published new details before the weekend was over (and includes five credits across four timezones!)
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Anthropic scrambles after Trump administration freezes its top AI models
Export controls on Fable and Mythos raise doubts over how US will police the most powerful AI systems
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 15/06/2026
Felix makes good rebuttals to the "why does no one cover this??" tweets. But also: this news broke around 1am Saturday morning in London! It's hard for anyone to do much beyond writing up Anthropic's statement at that hour.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 31/05/2026
lol
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.
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Antonia Cundy @antoniacundy.ft.com · 15/05/2026
In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out against him — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. www.ft.com/content/edbe...
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Crispin Odey and the £79mn libel battle that wasn’t
A legal fight revealed the disgraced financier’s thinking — and fresh allegations of misconduct
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 15/04/2026
New FT investigation: Leaked satellite tasking records show Iran used a high-resolution Chinese satellite to surveil US bases last month. as.ft.com/r/ac8726e8-f...
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Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases
Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“This is a vindication for investigative journalism and for the victims whose stories of abuse we reported,” said the FT’s editor, Roula Khalaf. “The FT was always confident in its reporting. This is a case that should have never been brought.”
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 04/04/2026
The information available to journalists and researchers studying Iran gets narrower and narrower, as we explored in our story a few weeks ago: www.ft.com/content/c0d3...
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The Iranian school bombing and the information war
Evidence suggests that the US was most likely to be behind the attack that killed over 100 children
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kadhim @kadhim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One of the best journalists I have known - Najmeh Bozorgmehr - on what it is like being in Tehran at the moment and the small rituals of survival www.ft.com/content/a2b3...
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Small rituals of survival in Tehran
War feels like something that should have been left behind in a more brutal century
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
some interesting stuff happening lately with the truth machines as.ft.com/r/40518eb1-4...
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Ultra-short-term bets add ‘even more mania’ to crypto trading
[FREE TO READ] Five and 15-minute contracts have surged in popularity as cryptocurrencies have fallen from recent peaks
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 13/03/2026
NEW: Our team of FT reporters across the world dug into the strike on the school in Minab. Along the way, we explored what the dearth of real-time, on-the-ground information means for open-source research in this conflict: as.ft.com/r/f29c784b-3...
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The Iranian school bombing and the information war
[FREE TO READ] Evidence suggests that the US was most likely to be behind the attack that killed over 100 children
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 25/02/2026
It was great to work with Michela and the brilliant Behind the Money team this week to share our reporting on ICE. Find it in your podcast app below:
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
the oldest adage in journalism is “follow the money” new in the FT:
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 31/01/2026
An absolutely shocking story with brilliant reporting from Jim here:
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/01/2026
A city under siege: Minneapolis reels after another killing ft.trib.al/sdWQun9
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A city under siege: Minneapolis reels after another killing
ICE could become the largest enforcement agency in the US, but critics say its behaviour is increasingly lawless
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 24/01/2026
I think this is the most important article I've written for a while: a trip to Sudan to report on the UN's refugee agency. Battered by Trump's cuts and western retreat, can humanitarianism survive? as.ft.com/r/f137508d-d...
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 20/12/2025
Our latest on the Epstein files (and a rare "Boston Logan airport" byline):
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 12/12/2025
By all reports its not going... great www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
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Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 10/12/2025
Since I’ve had a few people ask, I’ll note: our story isn’t behind a paywall! All you have to do is sign up for a (free) FT account, and you can access this — and also 5 other great stories every month.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 10/12/2025
Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge. An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
An investigation by @peter.andringa.me worth reading that also serves as a reminder of a well-known yet always uncomfortable truth: OSINT tools used for accountability (geolocation, facial recognition, data cross-referencing) are embedded in ICE’s deportation machinery.
Thousands of contracts and documents outline the contours of DHS’s surveillance capabilities: geolocation, facial recognition, DNA testing, eye scans, spyware, licence plate cameras, credit reports and more. AI tools cross-reference datasets, while mobile apps give field agents information at their fingertips.

At the same time, the proliferation of data brokers and digital, “open-source” intelligence has made surveillance easier than ever. Unlike the government programmes revealed by Edward Snowden over a decade ago, DHS has not needed to build extensive in-house capabilities — vendors now offer sweeping tools at relatively low cost.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 10/12/2025
Former officials say that criminal investigators (and tools) have been directed to go after immigrants — potentially leaving other crimes unaddressed. Meanwhile, internal privacy and civil liberties oversight has been sidelined, leading to an increased risk of their misuse.
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 10/12/2025
NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 06/11/2025
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled on.ft.com/47FBigb
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Asked whether the FT’s calculations on his family’s profits were broadly accurate, Eric Trump said the true figure was “probably more”. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com today on how the broader slopification of social media has led to an almost 10% drop in time spent on platforms worldwide. Except in the US, where consumption of "extreme rhetoric, engagement bait and slop" has continued to rise.
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Have we passed peak social media?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is amongst the best reported stories about the current state of ICE Air. Must read.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
If you hit the paywall here, you can try searching the headline on Google and clicking there. Our paywall has complex logic based on the number of stories you've read and where you've clicked from... and ultimately it helps us pay for this work. (But also, we want people to read it!)
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
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The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
You can also read the other stories in our series, "deportation dollars." On Folkston Georgia, the site of a new immigration processing facility, set to become the largest in the country: on.ft.com/4fVPt4F On the growing industry of private detention centres : ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
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Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
Many more details (and visuals) in the full story: This reporting was a team effort with @inari-ta.bsky.social, @okr.bsky.social, Stefania Palma, and Molly Taylor.
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The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
We also spoke to a federal air marshal seconded from his usual job to work for ICE. He said staff often worked 24 to 30 hours on multi-stop flights, without much rest. He also raised concerns about evacuating chained detainees. “If we had a water landing, God forbid, they’re all going to drown.”
A graphic showing four examples of routes taken by long, multi-stop deportation flights. They range from 16 hours to 26 hours, not including the return journey, traveling to Nairobi, Kenya; Santiago, Chile; and Buenos Aires, Argentine with 2-3 other stops between.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
Avelo is the only passenger airline also operating for ICE, drawing significant public criticism and boycotts. We spoke to two former employees who raised concerns and say they were fired as a result. One flight attendant told us he feared for the safety of the chained detainees in an emergency.
A triptych with three images captured by an Avelo flight attendant on a 2022 deportation flight. The first shows a plane with purple "Avelo" text. The second shows two ICE staff counting sets of handcuffs and chains. The third shows two ICE staff escorting a chained detainee up the stairs into the plane.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
CSI subcontracts flight operations to charter airlines like GlobalX. In it's most recent quarterly filing, GlobalX revealed that 58% of revenue comes from ICE flights, on 11 of its 19 planes. In an earnings call this month, its CFO said "We feel there’s demand for significantly more passengers.”
A chart titled "More than half of GlobalX's revenue now comes from ICE." It shows the company's global revenue by source, with the share of revenue from ICE gradually growing from 0% in Q1 2023 to 58% in Q2 2025, as total revenue grows from about $32mn to $61mn.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
The founder and CEO of ICE's main contractor, CSI Aviation, spoke at a Trump rally in 2016 and hosted one at his hangar in 2024. CSI's president (& Weh's daughter), Deborah Maestas, signed docs as a "fake elector" in 2020. Both were appointed to Trump WH advisory committees last term.
Allen Weh frowns on stage as he concedes a race for New Mexico governor in 2010.Deborah Weh Maestas poses for a selfie with Chris Christie at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 28/08/2025
ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
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The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 21/08/2025
Was about to post the same but you’ve beat me to it!
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 20/08/2025
I’ve been using volta.sh lately… which is still like screaming into the void, but in Rust (so at least it’s fast)
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Volta - The Hassle-Free JavaScript Tool Manager
Volta: Start your engines.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 16/08/2025
When Ollie writes about spies and puzzles, you know it’ll be a must-read. This is one to enjoy with your coffee this weekend:
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