Lighthouse Reports

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵 lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

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Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report & our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

“People are looking to their own backyards a bit more. The whole point of local news is that you can make local politics decipherable and comprehensible to people on the street and you can make them feel like they know what's actually going on. Start with the local and then you work your way up.”, Lothian-McLean, Mill Media Are audiences turning to local news? From the UK to India to the Brazilian Amazon, we spoke to the journalists making it work Listen to the new #Backlight episode: lighthousereports.com/lessons-from-l…

Une enquête menée par @LHreports avec 14médias, dont @actualitecd, révèle que VFS Global, prestataire de services de traitement des visas utilisé par70 gvts, pousse les demandeurs de visas à acheter des svc supplémentaires dont ils n'ont pas besoin, tout en les exposant à des demandes de pots-de-vin actualite.cd/2026/05/30/le-…

CALL-OUT: If you have experienced or witnessed aggressive upselling practices or other poor practices by VFS or other visa outsourcing companies, we'd love to hear from you. Please email us at vfs@lighthousereports.com

This was a collaborative effort involving @IndianExpress, @RFI, @actualitecd, @derspiegel, @twalainfo, @LesReporterSn, @initiumnews, @lemondefr, @kisadalgamedya, @News24, @TheNationNews, @NationAfrica, content creator Carri-Ann Bloom + @POLITICOEurope lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Most European citizens will likely never have heard of VFS Global. But across much of Africa, Asia + the Middle East, the visa giant has become notorious Our investigation finds VFS has made huge profits by exploiting people with 'weak' passports lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Dream team with @andrearincon24, @edierabeh, @thinink, @EmmanFre and Tessa Pang

In Colombia, where over half the population is overweight, diseases linked to unhealthy diets cost an estimated €1.3 billion a year. Members of Congress voted on health policies including a tax on ultra-processed foods and sodas. The industry pushed back, read on @cuestion_p: cuestionpublica.com/que-hay-detras…

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.

Trust in media is at an all time low. So how do we fix it? In this episode of #Backlight, we go inside newsrooms, newsletters, and the world of independent journalists to find out what’s actually rebuilding trust and what’s making it worse. Interviewees - Ed Lee, former NYT Trust Editor - Joi Lee, Independent journalist - Isaac Saul, Tangle News And if you trust us… share it with someone who won’t 😉 Listen to the episode: lighthousereports.com/how-can-the-me… Hosts: @bearamalhosilva, Tessa Pang Sound editing and design: Elli Xypolitaki / @spoovio