Aubrey Belford
@abelf.bsky.social
Investigative reporter / editor across the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (occrp.org). Drugs/Bribes/Spies/Scams
Glenn Greenwald, the Brazil-based journalist?
May 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Glenn Greenwald, the Brazil-based journalist?
I once walked into a bar bathroom in New Orleans and an absolutely wasted Robert Downey Jr. stuck his head out of a stall like a meerkat with this exact expression. His bodyguard ushered me out a split second later but it is seared into my brain.
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I once walked into a bar bathroom in New Orleans and an absolutely wasted Robert Downey Jr. stuck his head out of a stall like a meerkat with this exact expression. His bodyguard ushered me out a split second later but it is seared into my brain.
Asked about my wallet, the wallet inspector replies: “What wallet?”
February 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Asked about my wallet, the wallet inspector replies: “What wallet?”
I gotta figure out how to make money off this. It’s simply too good.
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I gotta figure out how to make money off this. It’s simply too good.
It brings me no pleasure to inform you that some Pepe dipshits are trying to pump an egg-themed shitcoin over on X
February 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It brings me no pleasure to inform you that some Pepe dipshits are trying to pump an egg-themed shitcoin over on X
The tin foil hat brigade attacking @occrp.org and other investigative journalists are absurd, but they do serve a very serious purpose: protecting authoritarians, the corrupt and plutocrats from accountability
February 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The tin foil hat brigade attacking @occrp.org and other investigative journalists are absurd, but they do serve a very serious purpose: protecting authoritarians, the corrupt and plutocrats from accountability
American conspiracy theorists Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger are online claiming a 2019 story I wrote for @occrp.org was a CIA / deep state operation to impeach Donald Trump
Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia
Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...
Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia
Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
American conspiracy theorists Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger are online claiming a 2019 story I wrote for @occrp.org was a CIA / deep state operation to impeach Donald Trump
Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia
Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...
Just one problem… I’m an Australian journo who lives in Australia
Read the real story: www.occrp.org/en/feature/i...
Kiama Blowhole. Nature’s original K-hole
February 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Kiama Blowhole. Nature’s original K-hole
Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.
I'm proud to say that @occrp.org is getting some ripping stories out real soon.
I'm proud to say that @occrp.org is getting some ripping stories out real soon.
February 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.
I'm proud to say that @occrp.org is getting some ripping stories out real soon.
I'm proud to say that @occrp.org is getting some ripping stories out real soon.
This is really good. It made me realise the last couple weeks have made me spiral into destructive online habits — even within the last hours.
No more internecine arguments, no more dunks.
From now on, we use the internet to inform and organise.
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
No more internecine arguments, no more dunks.
From now on, we use the internet to inform and organise.
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
February 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is really good. It made me realise the last couple weeks have made me spiral into destructive online habits — even within the last hours.
No more internecine arguments, no more dunks.
From now on, we use the internet to inform and organise.
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
No more internecine arguments, no more dunks.
From now on, we use the internet to inform and organise.
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
“Hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die”
In the future, we may refer to 2025 as the year of Elon Musk’s Famine
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
In the future, we may refer to 2025 as the year of Elon Musk’s Famine
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
February 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“Hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die”
In the future, we may refer to 2025 as the year of Elon Musk’s Famine
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
In the future, we may refer to 2025 as the year of Elon Musk’s Famine
www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
POV: An American tankie is trying to prove to you that it’s OK that USAID is being gutted because the CIA is actually secretly behind every change of government in the world
February 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
POV: An American tankie is trying to prove to you that it’s OK that USAID is being gutted because the CIA is actually secretly behind every change of government in the world
This story about about the White House ordering the CIA to share the names of employees via unclassified email is jaw-dropping.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
February 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This story about about the White House ordering the CIA to share the names of employees via unclassified email is jaw-dropping.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Last year @mediapart.fr, @yphilippin.bsky.social, @ryangrim.bsky.social etc put out a false hit piece trying to smear OCCRP reporters as US agents.
Now that Trump and Musk are in charge, they are using this conspiracy theory to slash humanitarian assistance.
Here we see Wikileaks gleefully join in
Now that Trump and Musk are in charge, they are using this conspiracy theory to slash humanitarian assistance.
Here we see Wikileaks gleefully join in
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Last year @mediapart.fr, @yphilippin.bsky.social, @ryangrim.bsky.social etc put out a false hit piece trying to smear OCCRP reporters as US agents.
Now that Trump and Musk are in charge, they are using this conspiracy theory to slash humanitarian assistance.
Here we see Wikileaks gleefully join in
Now that Trump and Musk are in charge, they are using this conspiracy theory to slash humanitarian assistance.
Here we see Wikileaks gleefully join in
The guy influencing Musk to attack investigative journalism, Mike Benz, is an anti-semitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist, who used to hide behind anonymity until he was unmasked via real journalism: nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
February 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy influencing Musk to attack investigative journalism, Mike Benz, is an anti-semitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist, who used to hide behind anonymity until he was unmasked via real journalism: nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
I have stumbled across the part of YouTube that is West African giant soup bare hand eating mukbangs, home to such hits as "MY WIFE NEEDS FOOD OGBONO SOUP/OKRA AND FUFU AFRICAN FOOD MUKBANG ASMR SHOW"
I can't deny it looks pretty good though
I can't deny it looks pretty good though
January 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I have stumbled across the part of YouTube that is West African giant soup bare hand eating mukbangs, home to such hits as "MY WIFE NEEDS FOOD OGBONO SOUP/OKRA AND FUFU AFRICAN FOOD MUKBANG ASMR SHOW"
I can't deny it looks pretty good though
I can't deny it looks pretty good though
This story about a serial pest who was elected to a local council in NSW and is harassing everyone has some absolutely insane details. It’s also just premium grade Australiacore
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 20, 2024 at 9:54 PM
This story about a serial pest who was elected to a local council in NSW and is harassing everyone has some absolutely insane details. It’s also just premium grade Australiacore
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Emails show that John Goetz, the NDR journo key to @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc's hatchet job into @occrp.org, misleadingly represented himself while reporting. He also obtained inconvenient (for him) evidence *16 months ago* that showed OCCRP is editorially independent of US donors
December 20, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Emails show that John Goetz, the NDR journo key to @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc's hatchet job into @occrp.org, misleadingly represented himself while reporting. He also obtained inconvenient (for him) evidence *16 months ago* that showed OCCRP is editorially independent of US donors
Depends what kind of juice you’re talking about
December 15, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Depends what kind of juice you’re talking about
They have hit rock bottom.
Not content with the authoritarian backlash they have provoked against journalists around the world with their inaccurate reporting, @mediapart.fr has labeled OCCRP a "criminal organization".
Libelous and extremely dangerous
info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...
Not content with the authoritarian backlash they have provoked against journalists around the world with their inaccurate reporting, @mediapart.fr has labeled OCCRP a "criminal organization".
Libelous and extremely dangerous
info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...
December 7, 2024 at 8:07 PM
They have hit rock bottom.
Not content with the authoritarian backlash they have provoked against journalists around the world with their inaccurate reporting, @mediapart.fr has labeled OCCRP a "criminal organization".
Libelous and extremely dangerous
info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...
Not content with the authoritarian backlash they have provoked against journalists around the world with their inaccurate reporting, @mediapart.fr has labeled OCCRP a "criminal organization".
Libelous and extremely dangerous
info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...