It's here! 🥳 'MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World' is published Verso Books 22 October 2024. Get in touch for review copies / interview requests / commissions / talks / podcasts etc

RIP CrowdTangle 🕊️ Transparency: Gone but not forgotten. Today Meta is killing CrowdTangle, a vital tool for researchers and journalists. Today, CITR members have launched the ripcrowdtangle.com website to commemorate and raise awareness of the loss.

I spoke to Bradley Hope about London's libel lawyers, my experience of being sued at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and how this city became the libel capital of the world for Project Brazen's excellent weekly pod, Whale Hunting – out wherever you get your podcasts now. youtube.com/watch?v=hqvGxj…

Enforcement is a pillar of the new government's immigration policy,but who suffers from the fallout of regulatory action? In the case of a recent sponsor licence revocation about 100 workers were left in limbo for months. Many are now in debt & unemployed thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

A 25-year-old civil servant lies in a Pakistan hospital recovering from major surgery after an accident on a building site In the same hospital, a 47-year-old who cut his foot crossing the road is now coming to terms with an emergency amputation

🟡 Reminder that I am now available to discuss football crowds, riot crowds, carnival crowds, protest crowds, crowd policing, crowd behaviour, mobs etc - and if you want to review MULTITUDES, please get in touch! 🟡

Lots of content moderators and other safety workers at TikTok in the UK are being cut. It's a global trend of outsourcing and reliance on AI. But teams with local knowledge are crucial to protecting users. So soon after the riots this seems extra mad. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-1…

Ah yes, because we need *fewer* moderators, not more

TikTok are trying to shrink the teams that keep the app safe, and our members aren't having it from Niamh McIntyre thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-1…

"We are workers, not criminals.” I spoke to the migrant delivery workers targeted by an immigration enforcement operation backed by Labour ministers 👇 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

More content moderation and other safety role layoffs at TikTok, this time in the UK. The company implies they're by reallocating work to AI and outsourced contract workers in other countries. x.com/niamh_mcintyre…

Niamh McIntyre Including this incredible detail - live, laugh, love, fired ...

Monday morning bump for this one from friday:

TikTok plans mass job cuts on UK moderation and safety teams. What can go wrong? ⁦The Bureau of Investigative Journalism⁩ investigates thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-1…

Last year we revealed that DRC’s oil and gas block auction had been plagued with apparent preferential treatment and backroom deals. Now the new hydrocarbons minister has cancelled the auction. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-1…

Our investigation on how the health and care visa throws people into situations of extreme exploitation has just won the HumanTraffickingFdn's Anti-Slavery Day Award for best investigation. Huge congratulations to my colleagues Vicky Gayle Charles Boutaud, hajar.