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Secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent. We reveal with Svenska Dagbladet how Sweden built this system then stonewalled journalists

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

I’m really excited about an article interrogating the agency’s projections of widescale welfare fraud. I’ll write a thread on this when it comes out, but you can already see our analysis in the methodology.

Must read thread from the lead reporter on today's new investigation. What's it like actually get stonewalled by public servants whose job is meant to be transparency?

Outstanding stubborn reporting catches 'open' Sweden deploying secret algorithms on welfare recipients seeking to root out an epidemic of fraud, that the agency has largely created.. Dystopic

This is for me one of the main lessons from reporting on welfare surveillance. There is no epidemic of cheating. The moral panic in welfare states about the heedless poor is often artificial, or based on conflating mistakes in complex bureaucracy with deliberate cheating

Always read and look carefully the work done by Gabriel and Lighthouse Reports team on AI accountability. It is quite shocking that governments in EU keep using this kind of systems. And even more that oversighting around them still falls on the shoulders of a small group of reporters.

Serious impact in Sweden where the welfare agency has been called before parliament to answer questions over discriminatory algorithms used to profile benefits recipients svd.se/a/63VOxo/efter…

Texas has become the blueprint for the militarization of the US-Mexico border. This politically-driven show of force has sent the Rio Grande death toll soaring. We reveal for first time the true human cost of this lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

In today’s The Washington Post & El Universal, the story of the >1K people who drowned in the Rio Grande, 2017-23. Together w/Lighthouse Reports, we collected, analyzed data for a year to show a ghastly portrait of the human costs of border policy in both nations. washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12…

Pleased to see our in-depth investigation into the human cost of the military build up on the US Southern border getting broader attention, thanks Arelis R. Hernández for your reporting and partnership

Across Europe college-educated migrants are locked out of the skilled workforce due to policy failures. @publico & @LHReports reveal how Portugal mitigated brain waste, as well as the limits of this success publico.pt/interactivos/b…

Estas são as histórias de Gianna, Tahir, Grabiela e Jairo - quatro entre milhares de imigrantes que vieram para Portugal com os seus cursos universitários na esperança de integrar o mercado de trabalho publico.pt/interactivos/b…

If European states want to help democracy flourish in Syria, they should allow resident refugees to come and go, at least over the next year. The more people go home, the stronger civil society will be. But you can't expect people to immediately take their kinds out of school...

Proud to see our story on the EU financed deportation system in Turkey among Global Investigative Journalism Network investigators of the year in that country. gijn.org/stories/2024-e…

EXECLUSIVE: Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence Spying on SIRAJ and our journalistic activities. 📍A file discovered at GID General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian journalist collective

An absolute MUST READ: our partners SIRAJ were under heavy surveillance by the Assad regime for work we did together Lighthouse Reports. BASSIKI بَسّيكي showing what brave journalism in exile looks like

For WIRED & Lighthouse Reports, I looked inside the European companies (and one UN agency) selling governments around the world software that claims to predict "risky" travelers using AI: wired.com/story/inside-t…

The case of Alaa Hamoudi was one of the first I investigated as an OSI & investigative journalist with Lighthouse Reports. The chain of evidence we gathered was unprecedented, with most parts of Alaa's experience corroborated by digital evidence or third-party testimonies.