Stories

How does automated decision-making effect our daily lives? Where are the systems applied and what happens when something goes wrong? Read our journalistic investigations on the current use of ADM systems and their consequences.

31 October 2025

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An AI slop farm stole my identity

AI slop is everywhere. By one estimate, roughly one in five articles referenced on Google Discover is automatically generated. It's less known that AI slop farms steal the identity of existing journalists and influencers to increase the odds of being picked up by these algorithms.

A photographic rendering of a simulated middle-aged white woman against a black background, seen through a refractive glass grid and overlaid with a distorted diagram of a neural network.
Excerpt from Fingerprints by Francis Galton

October 17, 2025

Remote biometric identification is a colonial boomerang

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama

October 6, 2025

AI avatars have been in politics for a decade, but Diella is different

View of the French lower house of Parliament.

October 2, 2025

For politicians, TikTok’s algorithm is a handy bogeyman

A screen in a church with a racoon displayed.

September 19, 2025

AI Jesus: What’s left of Pope Francis’ guidance?

Pixelated images of pregnant women running on a race track, dynamically posed but distorted due to limited data availability. They are holding cards that read “error cannot generate,” symbolizing the struggle to accurately represent such dynamic figures due to inadequate online resources.

September 3, 2025

Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster

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August 27, 2025

(When) Will AI Improve Women’s Health? 

Illustrations of six data workers, working at computers in isolation from each other. Painted background includes hazy image of cubicles; digital overlay of glass fractures.

August 9, 2025

The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers 

An illustration of a mountain resembling a data center and the affected community at the bottom.

July 24, 2025

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

July 4, 2025

What Are Green Algorithms Anyway?

June 20, 2025

Work-shy Students, Outsourced Thinking: GenAI in Education

A couple of atm machines sitting next to each other

May 28, 2025

Can Algorithms Close My Bank Account?

A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.

May 22, 2025

Scams and Shadow Workers: A Black Market is Selling European Accounts for AI Training

Three groups of icons representing people have shapes travelling between them and a page in the middle of the image. The page is a simple rectangle with straight lines representing data. The shapes traveling towards the page are irregular and in squiggly bands.

April 1, 2025

Spanish National Police Halts Veripol, Its Flagship AI To Detect False Reports

Crop faceless black nurse with takeaway coffee using smartphone

February 14, 2025

The Healthcare Uberization is Slipping Under the Radar

Podcast False Positives Mockup with Mobile

December 30, 2024

False Positives: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking

November 7, 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Predictive Policing Pioneer

July 18, 2024

For Trans People, Online Transitioning Can Be a Nightmare

May 29, 2024

Image Generators Are Trying to Hide Their Biases – And They Make Them Worse

May 27, 2024

“All Rise For the Honorable AI”: Algorithmic Management in Polish Electronic Courts

May 24, 2024

The Automated Fortress Europe: No Place for Human Rights

April 17, 2024

Italy Introduces Entirely Automated Public Tenders

March 28, 2024

Spanish Inmates Not to Be Automatically Monitored in Fear of AI Act

February 19, 2024

Austria’s Social Security Invests Over €50m in AI – Just for Bookkeeping?

An illustration of the protagonists of the story. Top: Camille Lextray, Jerzy Afanasjew. Bottom: Anastasia Dedyukhina, Miriam Al Adib, Soizic Pénicaud.

February 15, 2024

Fighting in the Dark: How Europeans Push Back Against Rogue AI

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