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 🧵 https://t.co/ZZJnqNWN6t

À #Mayotte, une enquête révèle que la police française aux frontières provoque des naufrages de kwassas, entraînant la mort de centaines de migrants venus des Comores. Barbares, ces méthodes meurtrières et suprémacistes doivent être largement dénoncées et condamnées.

À Mayotte, la police française est accusée de pratiques dangereuses d'interception en mer pour stopper l'immigration, causant parfois des naufrages, des mutilations et des morts. Le ministre des Affaires étrangères des Comores appelle à des sanctions.

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The revelations in this article are shocking and unacceptable. From Mandelson in Washington to Blair’s TBI writing NHS data policy with Oracle’s billions, to corporate lobbyists sitting on departmental boards - we are watching a state quietly repurposed to a degree not seen

Read the report: https://t.co/wjjFlp32fQ

INSIDE THE TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE with @LHreports, @PeterKGeoghegan and @maybulman Since 2021, Larry Ellison’s personal foundation – the Larry Ellison Foundation – has donated or pledged at least £257m to the Tony Blair Institute, making it a think tank like no other in the UK.

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Glad to have got this over the line How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of Big Tech His Institute (TBI) is pushing AI solutionism on Starmer’s govt, which is embracing it w open arms, w TBI donor & tech billionaire Larry Ellison set to reap the benefits https://t.co/u3xQR9aUFi

Read more, plus links to further reporting and credits, here

Another, Martin Akuagwuagwu, said TBI would push technology & AI solutions on countries with more fundamental issues to contend with ‘They have issues around hunger, poverty, mass unemployment – & we’re getting them to commit towards some fancy projects like using drones and AI’

Beyond Britain, ex TBI staff described a sea change in culture following Ellison's cash injection, w/ AI boosterism that silenced nuance & forced them to engage in ‘tech sales’ for Oracle ‘It felt icky,’ said one. Another said the focus became 'more tech, big tech, all the time’

Critics say this 'major influence operation' could culminate in US tech firms taking control of UK's most valuable data, the NHS 'This govt has failed to understand the value of Britain’s data.. they listen to what TBI says - and what Oracle wants,’ says Baroness Beeban Kidron

TBI staff have been brought into govt. Tom Westgarth was seconded to Dsit to work on the AI Opportunities Action Plan, with his salary paid by TBI More recently, Kirsty Innes, who worked for TBI for 4 years, has been appointed special advisor for new tech secretary Liz Kendall

We reveal how TBI privately lobbied UK ministers for Oracle & had its policy proposals taken up by the govt Correspondence obtained via FOI show meetings in which ministers seek advice on tech & AI from TBI staff, who in turn push Oracle’s interests

TBI has ballooned in recent yrs to 900+ staff across the globe, coinciding w/ a surge in funding from Ellison TBI insists it operates separately from Oracle – but we found the 2 entities share board members & hold joint retreats. Ex TBI staff characterise the 2 as ‘inseparable’

Ellison, 81, described by Trump as ‘CEO of everything’, co-founded cloud computing giant Oracle & is now the world's 2nd richest man after only his friend Elon Musk Since 2021, Ellison has donated or pledged £257m to the TBI We spent months trying to find out what it bought him

By speaking to 29 Tony Blair Institute insiders & obtaining FOI docs, @LHreports & Democracy for Sale provide 1st insider account of TBI’s symbiotic relationship w/ Ellison & his firm Oracle – & how this has transformed Blair’s org into a vehicle for AI boosterism & ‘tech sales’

Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men https://t.co/yVhnyrpmqI Thread

How the Assad regime in Syria abducted, adopted or deported the children of political detainees, and how orphanages meant to protect the children became instruments of the regime. By @LynzyBilling @LHreports and others.

Grenzbeamte verletzen und töten Asylsuchende an den EU-Grenzen immer öfter, statt sie rechtsstaatlich zu behandeln. Mehr Menschen sollten wissen, was die rechte Antimigrations-Propaganda und Rufe nach „Begrenzung“ praktisch bedeuten: Entrechtung, Entwürdigung und ja, auch Tod.