Eric Szeto
@ericszeto.bsky.social
Investigative journalist l Documentary filmmaker
A secretive conference in Vancouver brought together more than 50 people tied to the neo-nazi movement, white supremacists groups like Second Sons, Active Clubs — and members of the MMA community.
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Exposing MMA coaches at a secretive neo-Nazi gathering | Visual investigations
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November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A secretive conference in Vancouver brought together more than 50 people tied to the neo-nazi movement, white supremacists groups like Second Sons, Active Clubs — and members of the MMA community.
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CBC’s visual investigations unit uncovers the location of an MMA tournament held by the white nationalist men’s group Second Sons over Labour Day weekend in the small town of Caledonia, Ont.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
CBC’s visual investigations unit uncovers the location of an MMA tournament held by the white nationalist men’s group Second Sons over Labour Day weekend in the small town of Caledonia, Ont.
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Was Canadian surveillance tech used in US military strikes against suspected cartel members in the Caribbean sea?
Our latest:
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Our latest:
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Did Trump strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats with Canadian tech?
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October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Was Canadian surveillance tech used in US military strikes against suspected cartel members in the Caribbean sea?
Our latest:
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Our latest:
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Pressure mounting on deepfake pornographer David Do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @ericszeto.bsky.social
Dutch politicians join calls to extradite Canadian behind notorious AI porn site | CBC News
Politicians from a second European country are calling for the extradition of the Canadian man behind a notorious, pornographic website which featured deepfake images and videos of celebrities, politi...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Pressure mounting on deepfake pornographer David Do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @ericszeto.bsky.social
Fascist fight clubs, known as 'active clubs' have deep connections to terrorist entities and violent white supremacists, taking great care to conceal their identities and locations as they train and prepare for an eventual 'race-war.'
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Exposing fascist fight clubs training for 'race war' in Canada
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July 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fascist fight clubs, known as 'active clubs' have deep connections to terrorist entities and violent white supremacists, taking great care to conceal their identities and locations as they train and prepare for an eventual 'race-war.'
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Incredible investigation by colleagues @ericszeto.bsky.social Ivan Angelovski, Christian Paas-Lang, @grantrants.bsky.social and @jordanpearson.lol www.cbc.ca/newsinteract... Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Incredible investigation by colleagues @ericszeto.bsky.social Ivan Angelovski, Christian Paas-Lang, @grantrants.bsky.social and @jordanpearson.lol www.cbc.ca/newsinteract... Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
We tracked how a synthetic opioid 40x more powerful than fentanyl is smuggled into Canada.
With open-source support from investigators at @bellingcat.com we found hundreds of ads for nitazenes posted online.
Within minutes of responding to the ads, we were talking to criminals.
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With open-source support from investigators at @bellingcat.com we found hundreds of ads for nitazenes posted online.
Within minutes of responding to the ads, we were talking to criminals.
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Worse than fentanyl: How smugglers get a new, deadly drug into Canada
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June 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We tracked how a synthetic opioid 40x more powerful than fentanyl is smuggled into Canada.
With open-source support from investigators at @bellingcat.com we found hundreds of ads for nitazenes posted online.
Within minutes of responding to the ads, we were talking to criminals.
tiny.cc/n6rn001
With open-source support from investigators at @bellingcat.com we found hundreds of ads for nitazenes posted online.
Within minutes of responding to the ads, we were talking to criminals.
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Danish MP calls for extradition of Canadian man linked to notorious AI porn site after joint investigation by @bellingcat.com @tjekdet.dk @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation into MrDeepFakes
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Danish MP calls for extradition of Canadian behind notorious AI porn site | CBC News
A Danish MP is calling for the extradition of the Canadian pharmacist behind a notorious porn site that hosted deepfake images of celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and others, includi...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Danish MP calls for extradition of Canadian man linked to notorious AI porn site after joint investigation by @bellingcat.com @tjekdet.dk @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation into MrDeepFakes
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Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
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INVESTIGATION: With Bellingcat, Politiken, and Tjekdet, our team identified the person behind MrDeepFakes—the largest non-consensual deepfake porn site that shut down after our reporting.
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He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News
A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
INVESTIGATION: With Bellingcat, Politiken, and Tjekdet, our team identified the person behind MrDeepFakes—the largest non-consensual deepfake porn site that shut down after our reporting.
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The story of how we exposed the real identity of Mr DeepFakes
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The notorious AI porn kingpin with a double life
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May 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The story of how we exposed the real identity of Mr DeepFakes
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Latest: Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count
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Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count
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April 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Latest: Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count
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Congratulations to Avery Haines, @ericszeto.bsky.social, Maria Teresa Scotti, Jerry Vienneau and Angelo Altomare of CTV-W5 on winning the 2025 Canadian Hillman Prize for their harrowing portrait of migration through the Darién Gap
Avery Haines, Eric Szeto, Maria Teresa Scotti, Jerry Vienneau, Angelo Altomare
In 2024, more than half a million people risked their lives to cross the Darién Gap, a treacherous 100-kilometre stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama. It is the only route that connects South...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Congratulations to Avery Haines, @ericszeto.bsky.social, Maria Teresa Scotti, Jerry Vienneau and Angelo Altomare of CTV-W5 on winning the 2025 Canadian Hillman Prize for their harrowing portrait of migration through the Darién Gap
We spent six weeks tracking the RCMP Black Hawks, the most-hyped part of Canada’s $1.3 billion border security upgrade, following U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs if more wasn’t done to stem the flow of migrants and fentanyl.
Here's what we found.
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Here's what we found.
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We logged every RCMP Black Hawk flight for 6 weeks. Here's what we found | CBC News
CBC's visual investigative team tracked 68 flights by the RCMP's Black Hawk helicopters that were aimed at cracking down on illegal migration.
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March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We spent six weeks tracking the RCMP Black Hawks, the most-hyped part of Canada’s $1.3 billion border security upgrade, following U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs if more wasn’t done to stem the flow of migrants and fentanyl.
Here's what we found.
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Here's what we found.
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We tracked how Russian oil is entering Canada, despite federal sanctions against the world’s third-largest oil producer.
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Russian ‘dark oil’ is getting into Canada through this loophole
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January 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We tracked how Russian oil is entering Canada, despite federal sanctions against the world’s third-largest oil producer.
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We mapped out nearly 100 of Bashar al-Assad's prisons in Syria, revealing how they were embedded in communities near schools, mosques, and residential buildings.
Using satellite imagery, we also can show where one of the mass graves was located.
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Using satellite imagery, we also can show where one of the mass graves was located.
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Syria’s secret prison network, mapped
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
We mapped out nearly 100 of Bashar al-Assad's prisons in Syria, revealing how they were embedded in communities near schools, mosques, and residential buildings.
Using satellite imagery, we also can show where one of the mass graves was located.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P61C...
Using satellite imagery, we also can show where one of the mass graves was located.
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Great piece here on how Hezbollah procured these pagers, and how the explosives were invisible to x-rays
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October 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Great piece here on how Hezbollah procured these pagers, and how the explosives were invisible to x-rays
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Having covered plastics waste and failure of recycling extensively, it’s no surprise to see this highly-touted industry breakthrough just more creative accounting. Chemical recycling uses more oil and recycles less than traditional methods.
Worth the read.
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Worth the read.
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The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...
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June 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Having covered plastics waste and failure of recycling extensively, it’s no surprise to see this highly-touted industry breakthrough just more creative accounting. Chemical recycling uses more oil and recycles less than traditional methods.
Worth the read.
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
Worth the read.
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
Late to this one but it’s a good read:
“A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.”
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“A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.”
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We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
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May 22, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Late to this one but it’s a good read:
“A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
World's biggest chipmaker, the issues with merging vastly different work-cultures, and the geopolitical implications
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Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a chip factory in the U.S. suburbs
Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.
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April 24, 2024 at 4:19 PM
World's biggest chipmaker, the issues with merging vastly different work-cultures, and the geopolitical implications
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Latest: Canadian pilot who exposed Dominican Republic drug trafficking operation suing federal government, RCMP, Pivot Airlines for $16 million
He's being repped by lawyer Marie Henein
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He's being repped by lawyer Marie Henein
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Canadian pilot who exposed Dominican Republic drug trafficking operation suing federal government, Pivot Airlines
A Canadian airline pilot who was detained in the Dominican Republic after he and his crew discovered more than 200 kilos of cocaine on board a flight to Toronto is seeking $16 million from the federal...
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April 8, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Latest: Canadian pilot who exposed Dominican Republic drug trafficking operation suing federal government, RCMP, Pivot Airlines for $16 million
He's being repped by lawyer Marie Henein
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He's being repped by lawyer Marie Henein
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Another incredibly difficult story to report, hidden supply chains and how US prison labour fuels major multinationals.
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
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April 3, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Another incredibly difficult story to report, hidden supply chains and how US prison labour fuels major multinationals.
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We did the Darien Gap — a treacherous stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama — known for being a narco trafficking pipeline and, more recently, the go-to route for migrants trying to get to the US and Canada.
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NARCO JUNGLE: THE DARIEN GAP | W5 INVESTIGATION
W5 goes deep into one of the most dangerous migrant routes to expose how the Gulf Clan cartel is profiting from desperate migrants.Subscribe to W5 to watch m...
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March 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
We did the Darien Gap — a treacherous stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama — known for being a narco trafficking pipeline and, more recently, the go-to route for migrants trying to get to the US and Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_bK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_bK...