In last month's In the Loop, we spotlighted a report by Global Witness on the increasing number of environmental activists being killed. Read Global Witness's piece on how their approach to presenting the data in the report helped it get a lot of attention.
Screenshot from The Black Sea magazine's homepage)
The Black Sea magazine, launched in October 2013, conducts and reports on in-depth investigations from the Black Sea region.
("Vote for the Pimp", by Ammar Abou Bakr)
In the run-up to Egypt's latest presidential elections, Graffiti artists united against then-hopeful (now president) Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
Analysis from Techpresident: "Diversity, Credit and Hashtag Activism: How a Nigerian Movement Got Hijacked".
Another inspiring person featured in our Exposing the Invisible series, Brown Moses, aka Eliot Higgins, was listed in Time Magazine's best twitter feeds of 2014.
Find the transcripts of our interviews with Eliot here, or watch the film online here.
From CEE Bankwatch: "Coal investments are a dying breed in the EU, but some investors are still ready to try their luck in southeast Europe and Turkey." Their toolkit shows you what you can do about it.
Starting officially with a Day of Action on June 5 and backed by over 20 technology companies and rights groups, a new campaign against mass internet surveillance has begun.
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reset-the-net/
https://www.resetthenet.org/
(Screenshot from http://yanukovychleaks.org/)
Congratulations to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), whose website YanukovychLeaks just won a Bobs award for online activism.
Two members of the Peng! collective took to the main stage of Re-publica14 in Berlin posing as representatives of Google, and unveiled some creepy new products: Google Trust, Google Hug, Google Bee, and Google Bye - as showcased on their parody website, http://google-nest.org/.
Watch the talk here.
From the Atlantic: "How social media users avoid getting turned into big data" - tactics people are using on facebook and twitter to avoid algorithms and trackers.
