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Manisha Ganguly

Manisha is an investigations correspondent and the open-source lead for the Guardian. She has a PhD in open-source investigations from the University of Westminster. Twitter @manisha_bot. Click here for Manisha's public key

June 2024

  • Funeral for the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Soboh

    ‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists

  • Men wearing 'press' flak jackets carry a shrouded body in a stretcher on their shoulders, as mourners follow behindFuneral ceremony for Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem killed in Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA - NOVEMBER 19: Relatives, colleagues and loved ones of Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem, who were killed while working, carry the bodies during the funeral ceremony in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 19, 2023. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    ‘The grey zone’: how IDF views some journalists in Gaza as legitimate targets

April 2024

  • Composite showing book, Israeli flag, Gaza destruction and shadowy figure

    Digital trail identifying Israeli spy chief has been online for years

    IDF cyber-intelligence chief Yossi Sariel exposed online by social media activity and accidental government leak

March 2024

  • BlackBoxPodcast

    Full Story
    The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app – Full Story podcast

    For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
  • Black Box

    Today in Focus
    Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app

    For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes that are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
  • Black Box podcast illustration

    Black Box
    Episode 2 – The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app

    For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes that are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?

January 2024

  • View from space highlights damage to housing, farmland and public infrastructure

    How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation

    Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas

December 2023

  • Smoke rises from an airstrike in Shejaiya, Gaza, on 9 December

    Gaza war puts US’s extensive weapons stockpile in Israel under scrutiny

    Israel appears to be receiving munitions from stockpile, but there has been little transparency
  • Unmarked graves in Sidiro in northern Greece

    Border graves
    Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes

    Bodies also piling up in morgues across continent as countries accused of failing to meet human rights obligations
  • Montage over satellite imagery of northern Gaza, showing a damaged ambulance outside al-Shifa, Damage to outer walls of Gaza's Psychiatric hospital, and Gaza International Eye Hospital reduced to rubble

    Hospital damage in Gaza during Israeli offensive – a visual investigation

    Study covering period in late October and early November shows damage to 10 hospitals and health facilities

November 2023

  • Uyghur women picking cotton in a field in Xinjiang

    The age of extinction
    BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China

    Credits sourced from carbon project that was centred on biomass power plant in Xinjiang, investigation finds
  • Palestinians work in the debris of buildings that were targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia refugee camp

    More than 1,000 craters: satellite images show destruction of northern Gaza Strip

    One heavily bombed residential area half a kilometre wide has about 100 craters, Guardian analysis reveals
  • Dozens killed and injured after Israel's second bombardment at Jabalia refugee camp<br>GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 01: A man, sitting on debris, reacts as Palestinians conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment of the Israeli army in the last 24 hours at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza on November 01, 2023. Dozens of people were reportedly killed and wounded. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Cratered ground and destroyed lives: piecing together the Jabalia camp airstrike

    Guardian analysis of footage and imagery sheds more light on pulverising attack in Gaza

October 2023

  • Aerial view of the complex housing al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City in the blast aftermath.

    Al-Ahli Arab hospital: piecing together what happened as Israel insists militant rocket to blame

    Open-source information gives an idea of what happened at the hospital where hundreds were killed
  • A man records a video with his phone of rockets being fired in Gaza

    How Israel-Hamas war disinformation is being spread online

    Case of footage from set of Palestinian film being repurposed to make false claims is far from one-off
  • John Whittingdale sits at a table with people in a room full of people

    Gambling and crypto lobbyists pay £3k to sit alongside Tory ministers

    Amazon and TikTok representatives also among those attending ‘policy’ discussions at party conference

September 2023

  • IranianHarassment V2

    Iranian activists across Europe are targets of threats and harassment

    Fifteen activists including in France, Germany and Spain believe Iranian regime behind campaign of repression

August 2023

  • An officer monitoring the border with binoculars in Jazan, Saudi Arabia in 2016.

    Germany and US trained Saudi forces accused of killing Yemen migrants

    Training given despite growing concern over scale of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

July 2023

  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    Ukraine war live
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy discusses peace plan, Nato and grain deal with Erdoğan in Turkey – as it happened

  • 06/07/2023 - RUSSIA - Photos reportedly taken from Yevgeny Prigozhin's personal album and leaked by Russia's security service (FSB) that purport to show the Wagner Group leader in a range of disguises while abroad

    Prigozhin wig pictures appear to be genuine, analysis shows

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