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not the most important news of the day but a man just tried to bring his pet rabbit into the British library
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Waves of bombing, for over an hour, flattened a residential complex in Chora, Afghanistan. At least eleven people were killed, and homes & land were destroyed.
Survivors have waited for 15 years for accountability.
Our visual investigation here
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For
@WIRED
, I wrote about how the Home Office is increasingly moving to a 'digital-by-default' immigration system, and how this affects migrants throughout the UK —
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this is my last week on the investigations unit at airwars 🌟 I feel very grateful + lucky to have been a part of an incredible team + org, getting to collaborate and work on investigations that matter. Some of the investigations I'm most proud of -
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very pleased to be nominated for the Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist at the Amnesty Media Awards, among many other incredible journalists
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sorry 2 be annoying but rly pleased to see this piece in print!!! ft photo I sent to my mum lol 🌻
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"Airwars, which monitors harm to civilians, said last week that it had documented reports of 127 incidents involving explosive weapons within the “safe zone” in the first week after Israel’s warning on October 14."
@KaamilAhmed
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.
@_EmmaGH
& I picked up the second prize in the Outstanding Investigative Reporting category at the
@fjawards
, for our Airwars / Guardian series on missing victims of Britain’s airstrikes in Iraq, w/
@joedyke
@julnueno
@azul_demonte
@FreelanceHabib
@imogen_piper
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for WIRED UK, I wrote about the IAATW / International Alliance of App-based Workers 🚗🚘
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🐚 earnest tweet but i went freelance in april this year and am v proud of the stuff i've written since so here's a thread 🐚
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In 2022, I joined the Airwars Investigative Unit as a junior investigator, and I'm really proud of the work we've done over the past year, threaded below:
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here's a funky piece i've been working on for a little while – on how instagram changed the tattoo industry, and in what ways
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Just about a year ago, Russia was first accused of using the cheap Iranian Shahed drone in Ukraine.
@airwars
have documented every attack since. Read our new immersive investigation in partnership with
@derspiegel
–
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i'm now freelancing full-time – i write about tech, culture, politics and science, and i can write general news stories to tight deadlines too. my email is sanjanamvarghese
@gmail
.com - pls hmu!!
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💗🏡🎷🦜📚🎚️over the moon to have this piece on the British Library's Sound Archive in this week's copy of the New Statesman 🎚️📚🦜🎷🏡💗
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We found 127 allegations of harm to civilians in the south of the Gaza Strip, the week after they were told to move for their own safety.
@airwars
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i spoke to fka twigs for one of
@ClashMagazine
’s cover stories - talked about her process, vulnerability & magdalene ✨🐚🔮🌷
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In our first
@airwars
collaboration with the
@FT
, we investigate the Russian drone manufacturer Albatross, seemingly at the heart of the Russian-Iranian drone cooperation. w/
@Nikolaj_Houmann
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really proud of our nomination for the
@fjawards
, especially as the UK's MoD still refuses to accept killing more than one civilian during this campaign
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really proud of our win in such a crowded field !
Airwars is thrilled to win a Sigma Data Award in partnership with
@derspiegel
for our investigation into the Iranian-made Shahed drone.
@sigmaawards
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🌃👁🗨 i wrote about facial recognition in london for the new statesman - a whistlestop tour of LFR, if you will 🌃👁🗨
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🔮🌟 i spoke to FKA twigs for Clash Magazine's next cover story 🔮🌟
Fearless creator
@FKAtwigs
is the first cover star of
#CLASH113
. Order your copy now:
#CLASHxFKAtwigs
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For
@thebafflermag
, I looked at (what else) databases in the UK, focusing on immigration databases & their proliferation –
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One of the final things I did at Airwars –
@Emily_4319
and I spoke to Al Jazeera about Airwars' work in Gaza. This documentary also features
@ForensicArchi
&
@earshot_ngo
investigation into the death of six year old Hind Rajab -
Our work featured in a major new
@AJFaultLines
documentary - The Night Won't End: Biden's war on Gaza
Our Director
@Emily_4319
together with
@sanjanamv
explain our findings after months of documenting civilian casualties in Gaza.
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if twitter is imploding, it's also a big loss for open source / 'OSINT' communities too—the work that we do at Airwars, orgs like Syrian Archive & Mnemonic, etc—draws on images / videos / tweets posted from an incident or an event, for verification + investigation
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We've been working on this story for a year - and it's worth the watch! Tune in ⬇️
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will I ever stop saying thanks, love you at the end of interviews with sources?? Apparently not
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I’m in this print edition of
@WIREDUK
, ft this piece I wrote on TrialWatch, the Clooney Foundation’s new initiative ✨📱🗞
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Our blog item, finding that a US made GBU-39 was used in a recent strike on a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis
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Incredible work by
@giovanna_kama
&
@BorderForensic
, mapping how Frontex uses aerial surveillance over the Med to push migrants back to Libya
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hello I wrote this for WIRED UK on Matt Hancock's social media guidelines proposal !!
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📞🏙️🌿i’m working on something exciting + looking for field recordings from around the world – taken in public, of anything and everything. if this sounds like something you’d like to do / something you already have, dm me or email me (address in bio) for more details! 📞🏙️🌿
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for
@ElephantMag
, i had the opportunity to write about art, technology & the natural world – looking at a range of artists whose work i love, from alicja kwade to mark dorf to takis – 🌾☄️🎥🖥️
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Looking forward to participating in
@disruptberlin
'Smart Prisons' conference at the end of March! On the Friday, I'll be on a stacked panel talking about databases, carcerality & borders
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We've worked on this investigation for months (there's more to come) – our documentary shows the human cost of all these overlapping security + policy failures, from the US to Syria. Read / watch / listen below ➡️➡️
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I wrote about the enduring appeal of the Sun Ra Arkestra, 70 years after their inception, for
@TheEconomist
🪐☄️🌌
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like a lot of other freelancers, some of my regular work has fallen through / been cancelled as a result of the current situation / s. if you're looking for a writer / journalist / researcher, my portfolio is here
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😎 got to write about the misnomer of door policies for the new issue of
@awc_newspaper
on music + propaganda 😎 if you're in berlin, pick up a copy!
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A story I wrote for the
@wireduk
magazine is now online, on Amal Clooney's Trialwatch initiative & trial monitoring around the world
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In El Fasher, thousands of people have been displaced and homes burned to the ground as another brutal chapter of Sudan's civil war unfolds. with
@LaurenLeatherby
@declanwalsh
@ckoettl
@malachybrowne
& big thanks to
@Cen4infoRes
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Our
@airwars
annual report is out – read it to find out more about what we've been up to in the last year!
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