How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers (Gift Article) Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

Thrilled to talk with @neilbedi.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive into an emerging and alarming form of gambling

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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers (Gift Article) Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

Crypto casinos have become wildly popular with young people. Here's how the sites built an exploitative online marketing machine using celebrities like Drake and an army of livestreamers:
w/ @aric.bsky.social Jenny Vrentas, Leo Dominguez and
@iamrumz.bsky.social
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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours.
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
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The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

Bellingcat - Der Wahrheit auf der Spur - BR - TV-Programm Bellingcat, das englische Investigativ-Netzwerk, enttarnte die russischen Agenten, die ihren ehemaligen Kollegen und dessen Tochter im englischen Salisbury vergiftet hatten, sie klärten den Abschuss d...

Although it’s still not available on streaming platforms, the Emmy-winning @bellingcat.com documentary will air on Germany’s BR channel (@BR_Presse) on 25 July. www.prisma.de/tv-programm/...

Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next. (Gift Article) Videos and satellite imagery show how the attack unfolded and its aftermath.

Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next.

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A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs

The Haitian government has signed a contract with Erik Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Buddhist monks at the New Masoeyein monastery in #Mandalay survey the remains of a toppled clock tower as their monastery building collapses before them right after the #MyanmarEarthquake.

Live coverage on @nytimes.com : nyti.ms/4j1BhqY

Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral (Gift Article) With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

Online vigilantes, known as “pedophile hunters,” are now using real-life violence to build a following online, attacking more than 170 people since 2023.

From @aric.bsky.social, @alizauf.bsky.social, @iamrumz.bsky.social, Joyce Ho, Natalie Reneau and me

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Last year @neilbedi.bsky.social and I found a video on Instagram of a young man tying up an elderly man and beating him with a hammer, alleging he was a pedophile.
This marks an escalation of the online pedophile hunting movement. We documented 170+ attacks in 2 years in a new investigation.

Video: Crowded Skies, Thin Margins for Error: The Minutes Before the D.C. Air Disaster Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that l...

We used radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen to build a timeline of the moments before an American Airlines flight and a US Army helicopter collided over DC.

With Robin Stein, Dmitriy Khavin, and @ajcardia.bsky.social
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New: A deep dive on the gun used by Luigi Mangione to kill the UnitedHealthcare CEO. We spoke to ChairmanWon, the designer of the 3D printed frame, in this piece.
From TM (tmgneff on Twitter) and, to a much smaller degree, me
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The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War (Gift Article) Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight.

A mammoth investigation by Declan Walsh into the gold rush fueling Sudan's civil war. The paramilitary RSF has extracted $860m worth from mines it seized in Darfur this year alone. Who's profiting? The UAE.

Gift link and 🧵 of some visual reporting. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent (Gift Article) Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.

Amid scenes of prisoners being freed in Syria, incl. from the "human slaughterhouse" at Sednaya, read Anne Barnard's investigation based on the Caesar files exposing systematic torture and extra-judicial executions by the Assad regime.
(Gift article)
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An Iranian oil tanker bound for Syria abruptly turned around in the Red Sea this morning, heading back to Iran after reports emerged the Assad government had fallen, ship tracking data shows. Iranian oil makes up a large share of Syria's import, and this reversal may cause extra fuel shortages.

Targeted, a Tampa Bay Times investigation Read the full investigation into the Pasco Sheriff's intelligence-led policing program.

The lawsuit came after our 2020 investigation that found the program used data to determine who was most likely to break the law in the future. Then, officers repeatedly harassed those residents and their families.
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Pasco Sheriff settled a lawsuit from four people targeted by its intelligence-led policing program. The office acknowledged it had infringed on constitutional rights, agreed to not return to a similar program and will pay $105k.

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Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay (Gift Article) In recent months, soldiers have demolished more than 600 buildings to create a buffer area and expanded a network of bases, a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and video footage shows.

The Israeli military is expanding and fortifying the areas they control in central Gaza, signaling they may be there for the long haul.

New story out now from Aaron Boxerman, @aric.bsky.social, Patrick Kingsley, and @ajcardia.bsky.social. Gift link:
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