Part time investigations editor @LHreports, focus on global food systems. Won/lost enough awards to be confused by them. Now at https://xitter.cf/t.co/zklnp7lMVI
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My first time going undercover, and it was well-worth it. Read below.
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BIGGEST WIN FOR INDIA’S HEALTH REVOLUTION! 🇮🇳
Imagine picking up a Coca-Cola and seeing “HIGH SUGAR” clearly on the front.
Imagine picking up Lays and seeing “HIGH FAT” clearly on the front.
Imagine picking up Maggi and seeing “HIGH SALT” before you decide to buy them.
Now, you don’t need to imagine because FSSAI has proposed warning labels on Indian packaged foods. Companies will be asked to put a “high sugar”, “high salt”, “high fat” sign in a big red font in the front.
A massive thank you to all the doctors and public health experts who have fought for this reform, especially @Moveribfan and @dr_sivaranjani
My message to food companies is very simple. Improve your products before warning labels expose them.
HEALTH REVOLUTION IS HERE!!!
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🥫⚠️| El reportaje #BigFood es la primera investigación global que documenta cómo la industria de alimentos y bebidas usa los tribunales para frenar políticas de salud pública.
Conoce aquí los hallazgos encontrados por @QuintoElementoLab, @LighthouseReports y 9 medios internacionales.
➡️quintoelab.org/project/mexic…
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‘If all else fails, sue.’
This is an astounding new report.
We know that big food companies deliberately engineer and market unhealthy products so that we eat too much of them, too often.
And lots of you will have seen that this is why multiple lawsuits are beginning in the USA.
But what you probably didn’t realise is that it isn’t just people who are harmed by unhealthy food who are using the law.
The companies who make unhealthy food are doing it too. But on a MUCH bigger scale...🧵
theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Exposed: 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. lighthousereports.com/invest…
Latest investigation with @thinink, give it a read!
Our food increasingly makes us sick. When governments protect us, they get sued by big food companies like Coke, Pepsi and others.
It's a global epidemic. Here in Kenya, a 1/3 of adults are overweight, leading to diabetes etc.
Exposed: 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. lighthousereports.com/invest…
Can someone start a class action in Kenya for all the sellers who don't actually have the products they advertise...
Lagos Lagoon, viewed from Ikoyi, looking towards Lagos Island. Things have changed a bit!
dc.library.northwestern.edu/…
ALT View of an unbuilt creek
On #Ebola, it's encouraging seeing local concerns of "Ebola business" treated seriously rather than dismissed as irrational fears.
There was an *incredible* amount of mismanagement in the 2018 outbreak. Millions of dollars handed in cash, payments to armed groups etc.
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I like to think I contributed to this change, as most of the press coverage was uncritical of the response.
The WHO's comms team gave me the worst pushback ever. One research report was censored, editors called by "friends", personal attacks...
liberation.fr/planete/2020/0…
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Or here in English (note the long time between the articles, partly due to pressures)
thenewhumanitarian.org/inves…
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Every year, bad diets kill millions of people and cost trillions of $. The world’s largest food companies say they want to be part of the solution. But behind closed doors, companies lobby governments to derail public health laws.
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Given what was reported at the time, this represents a massive underestimate of casualty figures in Tanzania's elections last October. As the opposition Chadema says, "a government accused of carrying out violent abuses cannot investigate itself".
At least 518 people were killed in violence that broke out during Tanzania's elections last October, a government-appointed commission of inquiry said on Thursday, in the first official acknowledgment of the scale of the deadly unrest. reuters.com/world/africa/tan…
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NOTES ON (NOT) BEING NEEDED substack.com/@johnallannamu/…
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#Cameroon
Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the US+detaining +abusing journalists who tried to interview them. But Trump’s administration doesn’t seem to care, @LozSeibert @hrw
hrw.org/news/2026/02/20/abus…
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🛑New Investigation Alert
We received a trove of documents created by a Russian influence operation last October. The company from which they leaked was dissolved the very next month. This weekend we are launching a series delving into them.
#Russia #InvestigativeJournalism
ALT Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
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In this #Backlight episode, Lighthouse reporters @cr0ft0n and @EmmanFre take us inside the undercover reporting behind the Surveillance Secrets investigation: lighthousereports.com/invest…
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