Claire Wilmot
Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, criminal legal systems, gender
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotAnd the current moment, where the right are revealed as what they are - fascists, thugs, criminals, grasping swine who would loot the fillings from your teeth - means the death of Sensible Centrism. Because if your opponents are Nazi sex offenders, then who are you supposed to compromise with?
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotI know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.
- Reposted by Claire Wilmotalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Claire Wilmotohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- Reposted by Claire WilmotI hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
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- Last year I found a TikTok account invading people's homes to spread hate against immigrants. With a little bit of OSINT & a lot of legwork @londoncentric.media and I went looking for its owner. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
- Reposted by Claire WilmotI do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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- Great to see our investigation in the Guardian! Portland declined to comment on our findings. They told the Guardian they didn't have a relationship with the subcontractor we linked them to, claimed to follow guidelines for all "social media platforms". (Wikipedia is not a social media platform)
- Reposted by Claire WilmotProminent PR firm accused of employing an intermediary to favourably edit client Wikipedia pages. It's Portland, founded by Tim Allan, now Keir Starmer's comms chief. No suggestion Allan involved. Great work by @tbij.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Claire WilmotA London UK 🇬🇧 private contractor rewrites Wikipedia entries for billionaire oligarchs and corrupt governments (w/ comments from @citizenlab.ca's @fittarelli.com ) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotWikipedia was created 25 years ago, today – since then it’s become the largest collection of relatively reliable knowledge in history But how vulnerable is it to those willing to pay top dollar to polish their reputations? And how do British PR firms help them do it?
- Reposted by Claire WilmotGreat investigation by Claire Wilmot at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on Portland, a firm specializing in “reputation management”… by hiding negative stories through surreptitious editing of Wikipedia articles. Glad to have contributed with a couple of quotes on this one.
- Happy 25th to @wikipedia.org, one of the great wonders of the digital world! While #Wikipedia's volunteers are good at disrupting influence ops, PR firms still try to manipulate pages for the rich & powerful. My latest, for @tbij.bsky.social 🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
- Reposted by Claire WilmotShocking but not surprising.
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotAs one of the top sources of AI training data, the rich and powerful are eager for Wiki pages to cast them in the best light Volunteer editors are great at disrupting this – but demand for 'Wikilaundering' has never been higher And one British PR firm turned it into an exclusive service👇
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotThe shameful logic of the Labour/Starmer government: *Human rights are the cause of the far right. Let’s get rid of them. *Immigrants are the cause of rising racism/far right— let’s get rid of them. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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- Reposted by Claire Wilmot"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- Ezra Klein's flavour of liberalism makes more sense when you pay attention to how he says "we lost power", which reveals his seemingly unshakable belief that power was held/felt/wielded more or less equitably in the 2010's.
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- Impressive investigation by @zekuzelalem.bsky.social for @thecontinent.org on a massacre of civilians by a Djiboutian drone strike in Ethiopian territory back in January. Do give it a read 👇
- THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT
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- Reposted by Claire WilmotWhen the AI hallucination is deemed more true than empirical reality www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
- Reposted by Claire Wilmot«Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire). The deepfakes proliferating across far-right social media … are fascistic dream machines.» #MemeFascism
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- I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening. My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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