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Strength in unity

MIIR members joined Reporters United in the major ICIJ #CyprusConfidential investigation

The investigation, in which 270 journalists and 68 media outlets joined forces, is being carried out by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with the participation of #ReportersUnited.

The focus of the eight-month investigation is 3.6 million records dating from the mid-1990s to April 2022. The data comes from 6 financial service providers in Cyprus (ConnectedSky, Cypcodirect, DJC Accountants, Kallias & Associates, MeritKapital, MeritServus) & the Latvian Dataset SIA which operates the i-Cyprus website.

MIIR members, Kostas Zafeiropoulos and Ioanna Louloudi, worked with the Reporters United team.

Read the surveys

1. The unseen #PredatorGate company that sold wellbeing data.
https://www.reportersunited.gr/11975/predator-censura/

2. Cyprus Confidential – The golden fortress of Russian oligarchs
https://www.reportersunited.gr/11916/cyprus-confidential/?fbclid=IwAR2BEQNEvh79uWEHK35ZoFoJLoGNtFCQpBZjS8GniWWPiqJUIM3dksm6IEg

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]]> https://miir.gr/en/miir-members-joined-reporters-united-in-the-major-icij-cyprusconfidential-investigation/feed/ 0 MIIR becomes member of EDJNET! https://miir.gr/en/miir-at-the-8th-international-congress-of-the-european-society-for-periodical-research/ https://miir.gr/en/miir-at-the-8th-international-congress-of-the-european-society-for-periodical-research/#respond Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:09:40 +0000 https://miir.gr/?p=7685 15/12/2019 We are happy to announce that the Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting is joning EDJNET, as the first based in Greece journalistic organisation.

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]]> We are happy to announce that the Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting is joning EDJNET, as the first based in Greece journalistic organisation.
The European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) is a network of independent media organisations and data newsrooms producing and promoting data-driven coverage of European topics in several languages. The network brings together journalists, developers and policy experts. The network was set up in 2017, operates with the support of the European Commission and has 29 members based in 15 different countries

EDJNet works as a collaborative community, news aggregator, and learning hub.

  • The content produced is available for free in several languages. It can be syndicated or reused by anyone within and outside the network under a few simple conditions.
  • Original tools and curation services are provided to journalists, enabling any newsroom to take advantage of the opportunities offered by data journalism.
  • EDJNet helps its members reach out to new audiences by translating all the articles in several languages and disseminating them through its channels.
  • A collaborative infrastructure makes it easier for EDJNet members to analyse and explain relevant phenomena affecting the European societies.

 

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]]> https://miir.gr/en/miir-at-the-8th-international-congress-of-the-european-society-for-periodical-research/feed/ 0 Correspondence from London and the “Truth and Trust Online” Conference https://miir.gr/en/correspondence-from-london-and-the-quot-truth-and-trust-online-quot-conference/ https://miir.gr/en/correspondence-from-london-and-the-quot-truth-and-trust-online-quot-conference/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:01:07 +0000 https://miir.gr/?p=7722 8/10/2019 More than 250 academics, professionals, journalists and researchers participated in the "Truth and Trust Online" conference, with public debate on fake news, misinformation, deepfakes

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]]> More than 250 academics, professionals, journalists and researchers participated in the “Truth and Trust Online” conference, with public debate on fake news, misinformation, deepfakes and the very notion of confidence being enriched with the latest research and technology from the field of artificial intelligence and fact-checking.

Just a few of the admittedly quite numerous interesting addresses were the talk by Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s vice president of ΑΙ, and the shared experiences of fact-checking teams from India, Argentina, South Africa and Iran. Also, the presentation made by Judy King, Director of Innovation at BBC Monitoring, and the speech by the director of the Reuters Institute, both conveyed the latest developments and challenges in the field of news verification, while Anja Belz, academic at the University of Bristol, sounded the alarm about the challenges that automation already brings to the newsroom.

MIIR had the chance to present its investigation on automated political propaganda on Twitter. We would like to thank everyone who passed through our “booth” and showed interest in our work, as well as the organizers of the conference for their kind collaboration.

 

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]]> https://miir.gr/en/correspondence-from-london-and-the-quot-truth-and-trust-online-quot-conference/feed/ 0 MIIR’S first investigation is out! https://miir.gr/en/miirs-first-investigation-is-out-find-the-print-version-in-todays-efimerida-ton-syntakton-newspaper/ https://miir.gr/en/miirs-first-investigation-is-out-find-the-print-version-in-todays-efimerida-ton-syntakton-newspaper/#respond Mon, 20 May 2019 09:45:27 +0000 https://miir.gr/?p=6506 May 20, 2019 - MIIR may have been officially founded on January 2019, but its data-driven seedlings were planted earlier, in the form of twitter bots...

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]]> MIIR may have been officially founded on January 2019, but its data-driven seedlings were planted earlier, in the form of twitter bots. Since December 2018, the MIIR team has been painstakingly working on tracking automated twitter accounts. All, in order to answer the following questions? Is automated political propaganda part of the Greek political discourse, and how large of a part it does it occupy?

How does it function and what kind of political content is being disseminated? Thousands of accounts have been analyzed, and annotated while the relations between them have been mapped and visualized with the aid of custom-build algorithmic tools.

Not all seeds germinate, but this one led to MIIR’s first investigation. Automated political propaganda features quite heavily in Greek political twitter, with political content from both of the main political parties being amplified by bots.

You can read the investigation here and also find a print version in today’s “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper. 

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Till later,

MIIR team

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