Oliver Rivers
@maxrothbarth.bsky.social
COO at OCCRP. Usual disclaimers about whose these opinions are (mine) apply in the usual (obvious) way. Aspiring cat owner. Corruption, investigative journalism, art, classical music, not necessarily in that order.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
Gentle reminder that the BBC Board register of interests is obviously wholly unfit for purpose.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Gentle reminder that the BBC Board register of interests is obviously wholly unfit for purpose.
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Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.
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Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
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If developments in the United States take a more radical and violent turn then you can now pretty much guarantee that the BBC will only report the full extent of these escalation spirals long after their consequences have become too obvious to play down.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If developments in the United States take a more radical and violent turn then you can now pretty much guarantee that the BBC will only report the full extent of these escalation spirals long after their consequences have become too obvious to play down.
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
Exactly. And the Prescott report was very obviously designed to achieve precisely this outcome.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Exactly. And the Prescott report was very obviously designed to achieve precisely this outcome.
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I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
Little bomb planted by Robbie Gibb has gone off in a way most gratifying to Robbie Gibb. Davie’s just collateral damage.
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Little bomb planted by Robbie Gibb has gone off in a way most gratifying to Robbie Gibb. Davie’s just collateral damage.
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This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
This graph tells you why. It’s great reporting, of course.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This graph tells you why. It’s great reporting, of course.
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"They're killing everyone that moves"
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"They're killing everyone that moves"
Can someone explain to me like I’m 6 why there has been apparently ≈ zero blowback for Manchester City, owned by a government which is currently facilitating genocide in Sudan?
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Can someone explain to me like I’m 6 why there has been apparently ≈ zero blowback for Manchester City, owned by a government which is currently facilitating genocide in Sudan?
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They’ve smashed the control panel to pieces, ripping out the wires with wild abandon, until one button remains – ‘BOATS’ – and they’ll keep pressing that button from now until 2029, and when that inevitably fails, they will turn around and blame you.
This is what they’ll tell themselves alright, because it’ll be more convenient than admitting that they’ve fucked it by relentlessly attacking their own supporters until there’s nobody left who likes them or wants what they’re selling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
They’ve smashed the control panel to pieces, ripping out the wires with wild abandon, until one button remains – ‘BOATS’ – and they’ll keep pressing that button from now until 2029, and when that inevitably fails, they will turn around and blame you.
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A Jewish Israeli volunteer who was assisting olive harvest in the West Bank, and a Palestinian first responder, bothlynched by settlers today.
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Jewish Israeli volunteer who was assisting olive harvest in the West Bank, and a Palestinian first responder, bothlynched by settlers today.
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Some photo documentation in this piece as the images Yair shared seem to be suppressed, by BlueSky, inaccessible to view
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November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Some photo documentation in this piece as the images Yair shared seem to be suppressed, by BlueSky, inaccessible to view
www.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
www.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
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Huge numbers of Labour policy spads read @samfr.bsky.social’s Substack, where the exact scale of the repair job was written in black and white. What actually happened is those people were cowed into silence by a set-up that valued polling over policy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Huge numbers of Labour policy spads read @samfr.bsky.social’s Substack, where the exact scale of the repair job was written in black and white. What actually happened is those people were cowed into silence by a set-up that valued polling over policy.
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Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
what are the odds that the people in Downing Street briefing this out would also break out in hives at the mere mention of proportional representation?
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
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Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
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It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
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The woman who has accused the prosecutor of the international criminal court of sexual abuse has been targeted by two British private intelligence firms as part of a covert operation said to have taken place on behalf of Qatar.
-- from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social, me and Robert Flummerfelt:
-- from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social, me and Robert Flummerfelt:
Revealed: Qatar-linked intelligence operation targeted ICC prosecutor’s alleged victim
Exclusive: Woman who accused Karim Khan of misconduct was subject of covert operation involving two British private intelligence firms
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The woman who has accused the prosecutor of the international criminal court of sexual abuse has been targeted by two British private intelligence firms as part of a covert operation said to have taken place on behalf of Qatar.
-- from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social, me and Robert Flummerfelt:
-- from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social, me and Robert Flummerfelt:
we’ve spent umpty trillion dollars to build a phrenology machine.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
we’ve spent umpty trillion dollars to build a phrenology machine.
It would be quite funny if Stoltenberg suspends a rule that would require Norway’s SWT to sell stocks in war crimes-facilitating tech stocks just as those stocks start to fall.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It would be quite funny if Stoltenberg suspends a rule that would require Norway’s SWT to sell stocks in war crimes-facilitating tech stocks just as those stocks start to fall.
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He’s shooting his friends in the face up in heaven now
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
He’s shooting his friends in the face up in heaven now