ProPublica est une rédaction américaine indépendante dédiée au journalisme d'investigation. Créé en 2008 et soutenu financièrement par une fondation à but non-lucratif, ProPublica travaille sur des1
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enquêtes “dans l'intérêt du public (...), visant à illustrer l'exploitation des faibles par les forts, et les faillites de ceux qui détiennent le pouvoir à honorer la confiance placée en eux.” Mediapart a décidé de reproduire certains articles de ProPublica, directement en anglais, à titre expérimental.
The number of fatal shootings in the US are decreasing according to one set of official figures, while other US government data shows an increase in the numbers of people shot. Investigative website ProPublica reports on the confusion that is obscuring the truth amid the hotly-debated issue of gun crime.
One lesson of Heartbleed is that the US needs to stop running internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project, concludes American investigative website ProPublica in this report on the major security problems raised by the computer security bug.
US investigative website ProPublica publishes some tips on how to mask the information about your location that your computer and phone transmit automatically.
Blue-collar temp labourers in the US face abuses similar to those of migrant farmworkers depicted in the iconic 1960 CBS documentary 'Harvest of Shame', and many of today’s temp workers earn roughly the same amount as those farmworkers did 50 years ago, reports American website ProPublica in this investigation in collaboration with VICE News.
Documents show the NSA and its British counterpart have been probing advertiser data on smartphone apps, which can include your gender, income, and even whether you’re a 'swinger'. Here, US investigative news and features site ProPublica answers the FAQs about the scouring of smartphone apps.
When the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment for the dismantlement of the NSA’s bulk phone records collection programme, the White House swiftly condemned the measure. But only five years ago, Senator Barack Obama was part of a group of legislators that supported substantial changes to NSA surveillance programs. US investigative website ProPublica presents some of the proposals the president co-sponsored as a senator.
Jabbar Collins spent 16 years in a US prison for murder before he won his freedom and a chance to take on the prosecutor who put him behind bars. US investigative website ProPublica examines the career of that prosecutor, Michael Vecchione, and the allegations levelled against him.
In the United States, some tax-exempt groups underreported their political activities in 2010 to the Internal Revenue Service, using tactics that are being used to pour dark money into campaigns on an even larger scale this year, reports US investigative website ProPublica.
The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive international implications. But justice remains elusive, reports US investigative website ProPublica. Neither the US nor Pakistani governments have fully answered critical questions about the case — including why most of the accused masterminds remain at large in Pakistan despite evidence implicating them.
The US is conducting drone strikes in in at least three countries beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. US investigative website ProPublica presents here a reading guide to understanding the shadow wars the US is fighting.
