A vigilant newsroom notes how to safeguard sources and sensitive material during raids, with practical steps and expert tips. Learn more:
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/safeguarding-sources-and-sensitive-information-in-the-event-of-a-raid/
🛡️🔎 #PressFreedom #DigitalSafety #Whistleblowers #InvestigativeJournalism
A vigilant newsroom notes how to safeguard sources and sensitive material during raids, with practical steps and expert tips. Learn more:
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/safeguarding-sources-and-sensitive-information-in-the-event-of-a-raid/
🛡️🔎 #PressFreedom #DigitalSafety #Whistleblowers #InvestigativeJournalism
What you can do:
1. Read the original investigation. Judge for yourself:
📄 https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-palantir-zum-risiko-fuer-die-schweiz-wird
2. Support investigative journalism. These reporters aren’t getting rich doing this work. They’re doing it because someone needs to document what powerful companies don’t want documented. A year spent in FOIA requests is not nothing.
3. *Do* pay attention to the LinkedIn drama
The tactic of replying to critical journalism where the general public won’t see is deliberate. They’re trying to discredit journalists among decision-makers and industry insiders. Make this stuff visible if you can.
4. Make your politicians answer questions about government contracts. If the Swiss said no NINE times after careful evaluation, why did the UK say yes? Who benefits from these deals? This matters for #DataSovereignty and national security.
Support #InvestigativeJournalism. These journalists are fighting battles most of us will never see.
Thanks for reading.
If you think this is a niche #schweiz national interest story, think again, because Palantir are spreading their influence all over Europe.
Their software is used by ICE to track and deport migrants in the U.S., and in military targeting systems.
German civil society organizations are now citing the Swiss findings in their fight against Palantir’s expansion into German police forces.
Scrutiny is essential at this stage.
When journalists investigate and document *with proof*, the playbook comes out: Deny, obfuscate, claim they’re “misrepresenting” work that they don’t want scrutinized, mobilize the allies on LinkedIn, and bury critics in corporate double-speak.
Adrienne Fichter and Marguerite Meyer did excellent work. They deserve our support, not tech bros calling them “luddites” while Palantir rewrites what they actually reported. I *will* repeat their names so they’re not just “some journalists” somewhere.
Their investigation speaks for itself. So does Palantir’s response. That tells you everything you need to know about who’s operating in good faith.
What you can do:
1. Read the original investigation. Judge for yourself:
📄 https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-palantir-zum-risiko-fuer-die-schweiz-wird
2. Support investigative journalism. These reporters aren’t getting rich doing this work. They’re doing it because someone needs to document what powerful companies don’t want documented. A year spent in FOIA requests is not nothing.
3. *Do* pay attention to the LinkedIn drama
The tactic of replying to critical journalism where the general public won’t see is deliberate. They’re trying to discredit journalists among decision-makers and industry insiders. Make this stuff visible if you can.
4. Make your politicians answer questions about government contracts. If the Swiss said no NINE times after careful evaluation, why did the UK say yes? Who benefits from these deals? This matters for #DataSovereignty and national security.
Support #InvestigativeJournalism. These journalists are fighting battles most of us will never see.
Thanks for reading.
Special shoutout to journalist Zecharias Zelalem doing brilliant investigative work on a part of the world few are covering. This thread is amazing:
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115290520418428596 (Part 1)
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115290922706015620 (Part 2)
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115291272349035871 (Part 3)
You can follow Zelalem at:
➡️ @ZekuZelalem
You can follow the newspaper he was reporting for:
He also reports for Al Jazeera:
➡️ @AlJazeera
#Journalism #InvestigativeJournalism #Africa #Ethiopia #HornOfAfrica #Djibouti
➡️ @sludge - Blog on corruption in US politics, especially corporate donations
➡️ @pressprogress - Canadian non-profit news organisation, holding the rich accountable
➡️ @thenarwhal - Canadian enviironmental news magazine
➡️ @motherjonesmag - US news magazine on politics, environment, human rights etc
➡️ @InsideClimate - US-based non-profit environmental news org
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➡️ @404mediaco - Reader-supported investigative news, especially tech, consumer rights, privacy etc
➡️ @ZekuZelalem - Freelance journalist on Ethiopia & Horn of Africa
➡️ @ProPublica - US-based investigative journalism
➡️ @Bellingcat - Europe-based investigative journalism & open source intelligence group
➡️ @mediapart - French investigative news on corruption, pollution, violence etc (in French)
➡️ @theferret - Scottish investigative news co-op
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➡️ @sludge - Blog on corruption in US politics, especially corporate donations
➡️ @pressprogress - Canadian non-profit news organisation, holding the rich accountable
➡️ @thenarwhal - Canadian enviironmental news magazine
➡️ @motherjonesmag - US news magazine on politics, environment, human rights etc
➡️ @InsideClimate - US-based non-profit environmental news org
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➡️ @sludge - Blog on corruption in US politics, especially corporate donations
➡️ @pressprogress - Canadian non-profit news organisation, holding the rich accountable
➡️ @thenarwhal - Canadian enviironmental news magazine
➡️ @motherjonesmag - US news magazine on politics, environment, human rights etc
➡️ @InsideClimate - US-based non-profit environmental news org
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