Forbidden Stories
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We are a collaborative journalism network devoted to pursuing the work of silenced reporters around the world.
🔴 #PegasusProject | [NEW VIDEO ONLINE] 👉 “Imagine your own phone capturing photos of you without your knowledge. Or a computer at an internet café is infected with malware before you use it. Or your home is bugged with microphones."
🔴🇲🇦 [New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. For the first time, our consortium is publishing screenshots of the Pegasus spyware interface.
🇲🇦🇫🇷 [Nouvelle enquête] #PegasusProject : Quand la France voulait acheter Pegasus, le Maroc espionnait ses ministres. S. Lecornu se rend ces 15 et 16 juillet à Rabat, accompagné de douze ministres, pour une « rencontre de haut niveau » qui doit consacrer le rabibochage entre la France et le Maroc.
🔴🇲🇦[New Investigation] Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine. For years following the publication of the #PegasusProject in 2020, Morocco has been asking for evidence on them spying on journalists. We are releasing them today.
🇲🇦#PegasusProject [NEW REVELATIONS TOMORROW]: We will take you inside Morocco’s spying machine. Stay tuned. #Pegasus: Révélations sur l’appareil de surveillance marocain. En ligne dès demain. #مشروع بيغاسوس [كشوفات جديدة غداً]: نأخذكم إلى قلب منظومة التجسّس المغربية. تابعونا.
🔴🇧🇩 Five Bangladeshi journalists have already joined the #SafeBoxNetwork following Forbidden Stories’ workshop in Bangladesh.
🔴 Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo, journaliste centrafricain réfugié en France, à l'origine de l’enquête #PropagandaMachine publiée par Forbidden Stories et ses partenaires en novembre 2024, s’est vu refuser l’asile par les autorités françaises.
Iranian journalist Saeed Aganji (IranGate) faces coordinated attacks on his social media, including repeated attempts to restrict and suspend his accounts, which has been down several times.
🔴 In an age where Big Tech companies are flooding our information ecosystem and fake news spreads six times faster than facts, reliable journalism is what we need most.
🎯+400K views. The video in which Amalfi Rosales, a SafeBox Network member, speaks directly to the people threatening her, has now reached more than 400,000 views across our platforms, mainly in Colombia.
🔴👁️ In Mozambique, investigating corruption and environmental crime can come at a very high cost.
🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] MozambiqueExposed #2: Rapport inédit de l’ONU : des employés du projet gazier mené par TotalEnergies accusés d’exploitation sexuelle, l’armée mozambicaine de violences sexuelles.
🔴🎙️ « Forbidden Stories, l’assurance vie du journalisme d’investigation ». Dans une interview par Alexandra Klinnik pour Méta-Média (@francetelevisions.bsky.social), Laurent Richard, fondateur de Forbidden Stories, revient sur l’importance du journalisme collaboratif.
👉 How can journalists uncover hidden mines, illegal airstrips, roads, or plantations anywhere on Earth in just minutes?
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] MozambiqueExposed #2: Unpublished UN Report Implicates Workers on TotalEnergies-led Project in Sexual Exploitation and Mozambique's Military in Sexual Violence.
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] MozambiqueExposed #2: Unpublished UN Report Implicates Workers on TotalEnergies-led Project in sexual exploitation and Mozambique's Military in Sexual violences.
🔴🇧🇩 The #SafeBoxNetwork has just been introduced to around fifteen Bangladeshi journalists specialising in investigations into corruption, environmental issues, pollution, and agriculture.
🔴🇳🇬 #Nigeria: Inside the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. A new investigation by a SafeBox Network member outlet. 👉 The Informant 247 reveals how peaceful protesters demanding action against kidnappings in Kwara State were violently attacked outside the Government House in December 2025.
🎙️ Missed the insightful conversation between @laurentrichard.bsky.social and @yoerialbrecht.bsky.social on @debalie.bsky.social TV? 👉 You can tune in right now: debalie.nl/programma/wh...
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. A Campaign of Disappearances: Inside the Killings, Abductions and Surveillance of Mozambique’s Government Critics. ⬇️ Key Findings ⬇️
🇪🇨#Ecuador. En el marco de su investigación “Encerrados para morir”, la unidad de investigación periodística y miembro de la #RedSafeBox Tierra De Nadie en colaboración con Connectas.
📸 Pictures from last week’s True Story Festival in Bern! Credits: True Story Foundation, Meinrad Schade & Luca Ehbets @truestoryfestival.bsky.social @laurentrichard.bsky.social
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. Arlindo Chissale. Ibraimo Mbaruco. João Chamusse. Albino Sibia. 👉 They are not isolated cases. In Mozambique, the regime imposes a blackout on journalists.
🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] #MozambiqueExposed. Plongée dans la campagne d’enlèvements et d’assassinats contre les journalistes et opposants mozambicains. ⬇️ Nos révélations ⬇️
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. “I am informed of very sensitive things” said Arlindo Chissale, one of the few Mozambican journalists investigating electoral fraud and abuses committed by the security forces. Three days after publishing this video online, he disappeared.
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed: Inside the machinery silencing journalists in Mozambique. 👉 While Mozambique remains largely under the radar of international media, the country is facing a deepening crackdown on press freedom.
🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed: New revelations on June 9th. Stay tuned. 🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed : Novas revelações em 9 de junho. @observateurs.france24.com @papertrailmedia.de @zdfde.bsky.social @source-material.org @evidentmedia.org @zitamar.bsky.social @rfi.fr @jornalexpresso.bsky.social M28 Investigates
🇸🇻#ElSalvador. Los documentos sensibles y pruebas relacionadas a la investigación de Gabriela Caceres, miembro de la #RedSafeBox, están resguardadas con Forbidden Stories.
🇪🇨#Ecuador : En el marco del proceso judicial por el asesinato del periodista Fernando Villavicencio, Forbidden Stories ha tomado conocimiento de amenazas de muerte en contra del equipo de La Fuente, fundada por la familia de Villavicencio y miembro de la #RedSafeBox.
📍Keynote Speech by Laurent Richard Saturday, June 6th From 11:30 4/4