Trapped in a digital surveillance system

The Digital Walls of Fortress Europe part 2
The impact of surveillance systems on vulnerable populations, money for Frontex drones, and monitoring the movement of citizens within the European area.

How the European Rail Traffic Management System works (and why it’s not working)

In order to increase security, capacity and competitiveness of European railways, the European Commission is encouraging the adoption of a common railway signage system throughout the entire EU, which is called ERTMS. Its implementation is much more expensive and slow...

Greece’s deadly rail tracks

Greece takes the bloody lead in deaths and injuries in rail accidents in the EU, according to MIIR research results. Problems are mainly caused by unsafe level crossings, poor infrastructure and traffic management systems, and understaffed companies. Text - Research:...

Alexander the Bot

From ‘ghost users’ to ‘cyborg bots’, a birn investigation shows how nationalists in north macedonia, greece and beyond are unleashing automated armies on social media to rally the masses. Kostas Zafeiropoulos | Bitola, Skopje, Athens | BIRN Date of publication:...

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Trapped in Paradise: MIIR’s investigation on the tourism industry is out now

What lies behind the celebratory headlines about Greece’s “heavy industry”, tourism? After poring over thousands of pages, liaising with tens of workers, officials, trade unionists and industry insiders, investigating in situ in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, we...

MIIR attended workshops on FOIA requests

28/2/2010 Workshops on the right of access to information internationally

MIIR becomes member of EDJNET!

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.

Correspondence from London and the “Truth and Trust Online” Conference

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

“Tweets on the Dark Side of the Web” is now online

June 4, 2019 – MIIR’s first investigation on automated political propaganda through twitter in the Greek “Τwittersphere” is also being published in English….

MIIR’S first investigation is out!

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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