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.

9 January 2026

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What artificial butter tells us about Artificial Intelligence

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December 18, 2025

What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans

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December 12, 2025

Platform work regulation is failing cleaners

Blue illustration showing a person running on a treadmill, surrounded by symbolic elements of digital connectivity: on the left, a smoking factory and a server rack connected to the person through a cable, on the right, multiple speech bubbles and a group of persons.

November 25, 2025

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits

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November 14, 2025

Are all LLMs the same? I set out to measure their similarity.

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November 14, 2025

Why left-wing parties are not pushing for GenAI

Abstract human figures take part in a protest and hold up placards. The placards display images and slogans against the environmental damage caused by AI or the tech industry.

November 13, 2025

How to Resist Data Centers: A Guide For Local Communities in Europe

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

October 31, 2025

An AI slop farm stole my identity

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

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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

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May 28, 2025

Can Algorithms Close My Bank Account?

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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

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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

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