Jake
@jakecharlesrees
curator // art + journalism // source protection programme @cijournalism // co-founder @art_inquiry // teaching @KABKnews
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NEW: For nine months, @KaitlinTosh and I have been investigating how X's algorithm works. We found that it amplifies right-wing and extreme content in UK users' For You feeds. It's something we've long suspected, but can now back up with hard evidence.
People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this x.com/LHreports/stat…
🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
INVESTIGATION: Dozens of the Israeli army’s propaganda illustrations depicting alleged terror sites in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria contain 3D assets taken from video game kits, an American content creator, and a Scottish maritime museum. 972mag.com/israeli-army-3…
Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground…
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”…
Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground…
It turns out Israel’s 3D animations of “Hamas command centers” under Gaza hospitals and of houses in Lebanon “concealing Hezbollah weapons” are full of digital assets taken from video game kits, an American content creator, and a Scottish maritime museum. 972mag.com/israeli-army-3…
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
An analysis of dozens of 3D animations published by the Israeli army discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries and content creators as far afield as Scotland and Port Orchard. @OrenZiv_ @mekomit 972mag.com/israeli-army-3…
A months-long investigation by The Ferret and a group of international journalists found there have been 40 propaganda animations produced by the Israel Defense Forces in the past two years – including several using the Scottish Maritime Museum’s 3D scans bit.ly/3VVlela
A Scottish museum’s 3D models have reportedly been used in propaganda videos by Israel’s Defense Forces, it has emerged thenational.scot/news/25527301.…
Seit zwei Jahren sehen wir solche 3D-Bilder: Spitäler und Wohngebäude, unter denen sich eine Hamas-Kommandozentrale oder ein Hisbollah-Waffenlager befinden sollen. srf.ch/news/internati…
🔴 NEW: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used 3D scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine in propaganda videos for its operations in Gaza, Iran and Syria. Our latest: bit.ly/4pWnRB3
Our LondonCentric piece this morn shows how Asif Aziz’s company repeatedly rents some of the UK’s priciest retail spaces to students who vanish without paying millions in tax. There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance. open.substack.com/pub/londoncent…
A rough synchronization of 24 separate videos recording the crowd response to the use of alleged sonic weapons [zvučni top] on 3/15 in Belgrade
On the 16th of March 2025, Earshot was contacted by activists in Serbia to investigate the potential use of sonic weapons by the government on a crowd of protestors as they were holding a silent vigil for the victims of the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse. Earshot…
“Per population, the death toll of Palestinian journalists is roughly equivalent to the killing of 8,500 U.S. newsroom employees.” Investigative journalist @nickturse reports on NEWS GRAVEYARDS: How Threats to War Reporters Endanger the World for Brown University’s Costs of War…
BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…
damn this is brilliant. @EvgeniaKovda's essay on the nihilism being pushed on youth as some kind of hip new thing by certain downtown influencers — and the nihilism she knew growing with in post-collapse Moscow. nefariousrussians.com/p/against-nihi…
Don't worry if you missed our recent CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! All of the videos from the event are now online. You can watch them here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
If you're in Manchester this Friday, join us and our friends @ANDfestival for a series of short film screenings on truth and digital culture. Part of a new collaboration called Deep Focus which aims to promote artistic and investigative non-fiction filmmaking. Tickets here:…
In London with brillant Nikolas, we will speak about the surge of attacks on press freedom in the name of "national security"
2️⃣ #ReportersUnited will also participate in two panels at the @cijlogan. ❗️ The first one discusses how states are targeting reporters for investigating national security. 🗣️ @James__Harkin @LaraJBitar @AriaLavrilleux @kennardmatt @boublis tcij.org/logan-symposiu…
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