Bot-like accounts supporting sanctioned mining billionaire Bot-like accounts and media sites spread disinformation supporting Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and attacking civil society in DRC, Global Witness analysis finds

🚨a new @globalwitness.org investigation with
@opendemocracy.net reveals how a network of bot-like accounts amplified misleading claims about the sanctioned mining billionaire dan gertler

read here: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

‘Exciting yet scary’: Gen Z women on being given the right to vote Last week, Keir Starmer announced that 16- and 17-year-olds would be eligible to vote in the next general election.

16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the next election – but do they actually care? and what do they know about politics?

for Glamour, i spoke to gen z about being given the right to vote in the next election

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/gen-...

Lobbyists linked to Donald Trump paid millions by world’s poorest countries Somalia, DR Congo and Yemen among states forced to sign deals and barter their minerals for aid or military support

NEW: Trump-linked firms cash in on mineral lobbying deals as US cuts aid

new @Global_Witness investigation reveals how some of the world’s most deprived nations are paying millions to lobbyists with ties to Trump as the country halts foreign aid
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

horrible www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

BP to cut 4,700 jobs and 3,000 contractor roles from its global workforce BP has announced it is cutting 4,700 jobs from its global workforce.

huh weird, i thought the oil and gas industry cared about retaining jobs?? news.sky.com/story/bp-to-...

BP’s largest terminal in Azerbaijan hit gas-flaring record in 2024 | Global Witness BP’s largest terminal in Azerbaijan hit gas-flaring record in 2024

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Flaring from the jewel in BP's Azerbaijan crown, Sangachal, hit RECORD HIGHS in 2024

This is despite BP promising to eliminate flaring at installations it operates, and came with the onlining of its most "technologically advanced" oil rig

www.globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

How afraid should women be of the far-right? As the likes of Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate tussle for power, many of us are increasingly concerned about the rise of the right.

i wrote about andrew tate's BRUV party and the rising radicalism of young, white men for Glamour Magazine

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...

i’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social this lunchtime chatting PMQs with naga munchetty

tune in 💕

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

solidarity with all guardian and observer journos striking today ✊

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

"If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species and then with a sudden vengeance. But we can give it a better and more specific name: capitalism."
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...