> They also looked into the highly opaque business of cyber surveillance companies selling Mexico increasingly invasive surveillance technologies that are being turned against journalists.
The most important thing when a media outlet claims to be fearless and publishing stuff other people don't want you to hear is to figure out what its editorial criteria are. A lot of the time the reason mainstream media 'fears' to publish stuff is because it's total rubbish, after all.
Seems like this site's cracked it though. Can't think of any examples where an organization kills or 'disappears' a journalist to try to prevent a story being written and it turns out there's nothing to see or our sympathies should have been with the organization. And as editorial biases go, I'm very comfortable aligning myself with an editorial bias against the sorts of people who kill journalists.
Intriguing concept but I couldn’t tell from a quick glance where this website falls on the scale of say “BBC/NPR affiliated” down to “Ted in his garage has a cool idea and knows how to website”.
The inclusion of a donate button, an empty dead section titled something like “who is talking about us” with no content and above that “who is supporting us” which had a few names that didn’t carry recognition with me.
Anyone know how serious this project is from an industry adoption point of view not so much from the people involved in setting it up view.
Again the tilt of my comment is a bit negative which isn’t my intention so I would like to point out again how cool the website looks and how interesting the concept is.
If you are interested in this sort of journalism, I can recommend everything around the occrp project. They built a huge database for investigative journalism across the globe, trying to track the money behind incidents [1]
I am going to leave my comment here for posterity but to anyone sharing my question there is an about section I somehow glanced over the first time which explains the project in greater detail.
That link explains the cartel project.
Basically, a bunch of articles are being released on Dec. 6. They want to send the message "killing the journalist doesn't kill the story".
Forbidden stories, in general, covers stories that governments try to suppress.