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🔎The International Burke Institute, a self-styled Israeli think tank linked to Russian influence ops, used bogus expert affiliations and copied studies to build credibility. Its sovereignty index reached media and academia. @investigace_cz @slerkajosef vsquare.org/international-bu…
🔎 Orbán’s government poured €12 million into Slovakia’s Ma7 media group, benefiting a firm run by former MKP (Hungarian minority party) officials and a printing house linked to his ally Oszkár Világi. Experts say distribution fees may have been inflated. vsquare.org/how-orbans-media…
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💥An Israeli think tank whose "sovereignty index" reached reputable media and academia is actually part of a Russian influence operation. Leaks show the Kremlin's propaganda firm Social Design Agency planned influence ops as early as 2024. @investigace_cz vsquare.org/international-bu…
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💥Fresh Goulash newsletter is out with new stories and scoops from Central Europe, including Hungary’s expulsion of Russian diplomats and Orbán’s oligarchs waving a white flag. Investigative journalism from the region, all in one place. Read and subscribe👇vsquare.org/goulash-slovakia…
China’s foreign reserve agency secretly acquired stakes in European infrastructure, utilities and real estate through shell companies. This joint investigation reveals the hidden portfolio & the growing opacity surrounding ownership. @OCCRP @FRONTSTORY_PL vsquare.org/police-wind-farm…
Over the past 15 years, Hungary’s @Atlatszo—meaning “transparent”—has become a leading investigative newsroom, uncovering Orbán-era corruption while enduring police raids and smear campaigns. Founder Tamás Bodoky looks back—and ahead. @panyiszabolcs vsquare.org/investigating-th…
💥🇷🇺 Russia is turning propaganda into lawfare against the Baltic countries. Claims once dismissed as disinformation are now being used to build an ICJ case, with help from a Moscow law firm and propagandists linked to Russian intelligence. @rebaltica vsquare.org/from-propaganda-…
China’s foreign reserve agency secretly acquired stakes in European infrastructure, utilities and real estate through shell companies. This joint investigation reveals the hidden portfolio & the growing opacity surrounding ownership. @OCCRP @FRONTSTORY_PL vsquare.org/police-wind-farm…
Over the past 15 years, Hungary’s @Atlatszo—meaning “transparent”—has become a leading investigative newsroom, uncovering Orbán-era corruption while enduring police raids and smear campaigns. Founder Tamás Bodoky looks back—and ahead. @panyiszabolcs vsquare.org/investigating-th…
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💥SCOOP: Hungary calls him back from retirement, and sends Václav Havel's old friend and translator, György Varga, back to Prague as ambassador. He has already served there as ambassador in 1990–1995. Havel called Varga his “window into Hungary.”
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💥🇷🇺 Russia is turning propaganda into lawfare against the Baltic countries. Claims once dismissed as disinformation are now being used to build an ICJ case, with help from a Moscow law firm and propagandists linked to Russian intelligence. @rebaltica vsquare.org/from-propaganda-…
IT’S HERE. 🎉
The Breakwater Festival programme is now live.
And just look at who’s coming to Gdańsk. Investigative journalists, reporters, editors, data nerds, media leaders, OSINT experts, filmmakers and people doing some seriously important work to keep independent journalism alive.
From investigations and OSINT to disinformation, war reporting, data, exile, sustainability and everything in between - three days packed with people, stories, methods and conversations.
And yes, there’s more to come. We’re still adding sessions and speakers as the final pieces fall into place.
But we couldn’t wait any longer.
Go explore the programme → link in the thread 👀
See you in Gdańsk🌊
China’s foreign reserve agency secretly acquired stakes in European infrastructure, utilities and real estate through shell companies. This joint investigation reveals the hidden portfolio & the growing opacity surrounding ownership. @OCCRP @FRONTSTORY_PL vsquare.org/police-wind-farm…
Over the past 15 years, Hungary’s @Atlatszo—meaning “transparent”—has become a leading investigative newsroom, uncovering Orbán-era corruption while enduring police raids and smear campaigns. Founder Tamás Bodoky looks back—and ahead. @panyiszabolcs vsquare.org/investigating-th…
💥🇷🇺 Russia is turning propaganda into lawfare against the Baltic countries. Claims once dismissed as disinformation are now being used to build an ICJ case, with help from a Moscow law firm and propagandists linked to Russian intelligence. @rebaltica vsquare.org/from-propaganda-…
China’s foreign reserve agency secretly acquired stakes in European infrastructure, utilities and real estate through shell companies. This joint investigation reveals the hidden portfolio & the growing opacity surrounding ownership. @OCCRP @FRONTSTORY_PL vsquare.org/police-wind-farm…
Over the past 15 years, Hungary’s @Atlatszo—meaning “transparent”—has become a leading investigative newsroom, uncovering Orbán-era corruption while enduring police raids and smear campaigns. Founder Tamás Bodoky looks back—and ahead. @panyiszabolcs vsquare.org/investigating-th…
💥🇷🇺 Russia is turning propaganda into lawfare against the Baltic countries. Claims once dismissed as disinformation are now being used to build an ICJ case, with help from a Moscow law firm and propagandists linked to Russian intelligence. @rebaltica vsquare.org/from-propaganda-…