Erika Di Benedetto
Photo Editor at Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
Investigative Journalist, Photographer, Multimedia and Visual Producer at Freelance
Photo editor at @OCCRP | Investigative Journalist & Multimedia | Former Visual producer @POLITICOeurope Do you have a tip? [email protected]
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Feb 1, 2024 |
occrp.org | Erika Di Benedetto
From now on, anyone who commits online abuses such as sending pornographic images without the consent of the receiver, death threats, fake news intended to harm, or electric images that intensely flash to a person suffering from epilepsy, will land in prison, the U.K. government stated on Wednesday.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
occrp.org | Erika Di Benedetto
The Council of the European Union, the EU essential decision maker, has proposed improvements to draft legislation that would ban all products manufactured through forced labor within the European Union (EU), asking for the prohibition to also apply to products bought online and for the strengthening of control mechanisms that would expose such products.
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Jan 30, 2024 |
occrp.org | Erika Di Benedetto
Human rights organizations have accused U.S. petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana of polluting the environment so severely that the toxic substances they release have caused respiratory diseases and cancer among people living nearby. Amnesty International published a report focusing on approximately 600 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants along the 84-kilometer-long Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
occrp.org | Erika Di Benedetto
Spanish authorities have apprehended five individuals involved in a so-called "wash wash scam" where they sold pieces of blank paper shaped like banknotes and convinced victims that washing them with special chemicals would transform them into real money. In this type of scam, also known as the "black money scam," perpetrators claim to possess cash that has been blackened or dyed to evade customs controls, using excuses such as that the money originates from a war-torn country or a heist.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
occrp.org | Erika Di Benedetto
Tech analysis showed that the phones of two Togolese reporters, currently on trial in a defamation case brought by a minister, showed traces of spyware typical of Pegasus, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said. The Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israeli NSO Group, is capable of infiltrating phones, acquiring, and monitoring sensitive information such as text messages, calls, and passwords.
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