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Finlo Rohrer

@FinloRohrer

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Editor, Data & Analysis, BBC News. Data, OSINT, Disinformation & Fact-Checking, Explanation.

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@courtbembridge
Courtney Bembridge
3 years
Thousands of foreign companies are yet to be fined for breaking a new UK transparency law. The BBC’s Data Journalism team (@nassos_, @HarrietAgerholm + @willdahlgreen) found fines worth up to £1bn have not yet been imposed - including firms with links to Russian oligarchs.
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@BBCtrending
BBC Trending
3 years
Successful Asian women - like New Yorker writer @JiayangFan - are being trolled online. But who's behind the abuse? Many of the troll accounts have Western names and faces, but they behave like bots, not real people.
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@BBCRosAtkins
Ros Atkins
3 years
South Africa's President Ramaphosa says its energy crisis is an 'existential threat' to SA's economy & social fabric. He's promising to bring the daily power cuts 'to an end'. 7 mins on a story that's about more than electricity. Produced by Floyd Cush, Michael Cox, Mary Fuller.
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@O_Rob1nson
Olga Robinson
3 years
New footage from the cafe where pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed has fueled speculation Darya Trepova knew there would be an explosion. But what does the video actually show? Latest from me with @joshcheetham @Danict89 @SoyaInk @Jacqui_Galvin
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New footage has emerged from the venue where a pro-Kremlin blogger was killed by a bomb.
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@FloraCarmichael
Flora Carmichael
3 years
Our new @BBCtrending⁩ series kicks off on ⁦@bbcworldservice⁩ and ⁦@BBCSounds⁩ today. #Trolled lifts the lid on online abuse and trolling around the world. In episode 1 ⁦⁦@mariannaspring⁩ investigates what’s going on at Twitter…
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How is Elon Musk’s ownership transforming Twitter?
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@joshcheetham
Josh Cheetham
3 years
Pictures of Donald Trump being arrested have spread online this week - here’s how to spot they’re fake. By me and @KayleenDevlin
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Pictures of former President Trump being "arrested" are all over social media - but don't be fooled.
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@deefinnerty
Deirdre Finnerty is mostly offline
5 years
For decades, unmarried women and girls were detained in mother and baby homes in Ireland and had their children taken away. The final report of a govt inquiry into the homes is published today. One such home is Bessborough House. It closed in 1998. https://t.co/UM7fCOtZem
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@KWestcott01
Kathryn Westcott
6 years
Latest BBC Long Read: "It was an epic and tumultuous day by any standards..." Elegantly written by @BBCJonSopel produced by @paulkerley
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Were these the three hours that upset Trump’s campaign?
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@KWestcott01
Kathryn Westcott
6 years
Latest BBC Long Read: "As Wang Fei lay dying in hospital, another location, a 40-minute drive from the Huanan Seafood Market, was already becoming the focus of an altogether different theory" By @TheJohnSudworth https://t.co/kOdjulZXml
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@NickBryantNY
Nick Bryant
6 years
After thirty years, football’s natural order has been restored. Delighted for Liverpool. Brilliant team, inspirational manager, wonderful club. #LFC
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@KWestcott01
Kathryn Westcott
6 years
Latest BBC Long Read: This is what motivated Steve Walker to tell this story: 'It was during this difficult time, of having to ‘shut down my brother’s dream’, that I came to realise that what happened to my brother wasn’t an isolated incident'
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Steve Walker investigates the murder of his British-Jamaican brother on the island of his birth.
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@FinloRohrer
Finlo Rohrer
6 years
Finished Martin Windrow’s The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Brutal.
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@MishalHusain
Mishal Husain
6 years
It’s been such a long road for Aasia Bibi. Here’s the excellent @ShumailaJaffery look back at her story
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Pakistan's notorious blasphemy case
@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
6 years
Asia Bibi, the Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan, is now free after being acquitted by the Supreme Court last year. She has been speaking to @MishalHusain - you can listen to the interview on #r4Today from 7am tomorrow morning.
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@KWestcott01
Kathryn Westcott
6 years
Latest BBC Long Read: "In a cupboard, in a caravan park in northern England, there is a pair of Italian leather dancing shoes..." @BBCDomC @steveswannBBC https://t.co/k34tqKgsvn
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@FinloRohrer
Finlo Rohrer
6 years
Today’s lovely long read is the story of Carlos Ghosn’s rise, arrest and extraordinary escape by @Theothebald and @wingcommander1 https://t.co/80Xlzdkbpi
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@FinloRohrer
Finlo Rohrer
6 years
Finished John Stubbs’s Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel. Compendious.
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@KWestcott01
Kathryn Westcott
6 years
If you've started watching the Trial of Christine Keeler, the latest BBC Long Read by @TanyaGold1 is a must read. It's a must read anyway - "Misogyny dies hard".
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For the first time, a new TV drama reassesses the woman at the centre of a scandal that exploded at the heart of the British establishment.
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@FinloRohrer
Finlo Rohrer
6 years
Finished Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. Interesting generalisation.
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Finlo Rohrer
6 years
Finished Mikhail Sholokhov‘S And Quiet Flows The Don. Brutal/poetic.
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@seanjcoughlan
Sean Coughlan
6 years
What really happened in London Bridge terror attack. And did a bus accidentally get hit? 300 seconds on London Bridge
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