@malachy.bsky.social
I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Below, our story on Rikers Island and Michael Nieves, a detainee who bled out for 10 mins as guards stood by. We spent 3 years filing FOIA requests and lawsuits to get these videos of conditions in the jail. w/ Jan Ransom, Sarah Kerr, Caroline Kim, Michael Laforgia www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJvh...
17.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 63 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 2
The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT
17.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 597 🔁 299 💬 305 📌 178I often get DM's asking how I got the skills do to the work that I do. Well, I spent a lot of my formative years on social media and got a PhD in Information Science.
But if you want the quick version, you could also sign up to take one of our week long workshops from @bellingcat.com
How Trump's deal with El Salvador and Bukele is undermining a longstanding U.S. inquiry into the gang, MS13. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
07.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1A wonderful, and very well-made, video from Kubrick scholar @archiviokubrick.it on this search for the Overlook Hotel photograph that closes The Shining:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7x...
Very useful integration of @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Sentinel-5P data into @unep.org Methane Map, with here a visualisation of the challenges #Syria is facing from a crumbling fossil fuel infrastructure, energy and solid waste hotspots causing large methane emissions
20.06.2025 09:49 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Today Kenyan civil society organisations have called upon the Kenyan government and the UN security council to take action following our reporting with the Daily Nation. We found Kenyan-labelled ammunition crates in a suspected Rapid Support Forces depot in Sudan. pressrelease.co.ke/news/375
19.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 195 🔁 59 💬 3 📌 1
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
Investigating Israel's strikes on Iran and their impact on civilians. We cross referenced addresses of Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists from a public database with geolocated footage of strikes.
@pallabimunsi.bsky.social & Oscar Featherstone
edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/w...
“The great change wrought by the internet for most people is not in how public disorder is caused, but in how it is reported. The violence of the past week has been aired with an immediacy and intimacy unimaginable 15 years ago”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
“Two weeks” is one of President Trump’s favorite units of time. It can mean something, or nothing at all. By Shawn McCreesh. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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Story on their lawsuit, by Alan Feuer www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...
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On Friday, five Proud Boys sued the US government for $100 million for their “political persecution” as “allies of President Trump.”
A reminder of how they instigated multiple breaches during the Capitol riot. Our visual investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfL...
ICE agent smashes car window to grab somebody without warrant www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjguDNwJ/
09.06.2025 03:55 — 👍 312 🔁 176 💬 12 📌 5
Analysis of a video and phone recording support what Mr. Al-Nasasra saw www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...
04.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The soldiers came to the scene very close – and then he heard them shooting everyone who was still alive.”
The account of Asaad Al-Nasasra, who survived an IDF attack on a convoy of medics in March and was detained for over a month.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Ukraine Hid Attack Drones in Russia. These Videos Show What Happened Next.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drone-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.bcBu.SlVgFdhrbLyK&smid=url-share
"The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl."
So begins Vivian Yee's report. Don't look away.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...
A strike on a school where families were sheltering.
Israel's far-right chant "Death to Arabs".
An Israeli minister provokes at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
"Everything we're seeing is related to blast bomb injuries" - Dr. Victoria Rose.
@lindseyhilsum.bsky.social's report on Gaza
youtu.be/eYVNhFfbdug
News Analysis: President Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
25.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 824 🔁 296 💬 164 📌 45
Trump claims that a video shows the “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa. It doesn't.
From @rileymellen.bsky.social and me
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down.
New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...
The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
Flight carrying US detainees destined for South Sudan likely flew through Shannon airport to Djibouti www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
21.05.2025 21:02 — 👍 22 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
We're hiring for a motion designer on our video team in London. Come work with us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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“It was striking how cordial he was to the white South Africans -- two professional golfers and a luxury good magnate -- while clashing with or dismissing Ramaphosa.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
21.05.2025 17:38 — 👍 20 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1By an eastern entrance to Jenin camp, @geoconfirmed.org 32.45972504674733, 35.293782022776696
21.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the attack on medics who we interviewed in Gaza, was killed at the weekend when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague Bilal Shbair today for a photo of them together when Bilal interviewed them.
13.05.2025 12:51 — 👍 128 🔁 108 💬 5 📌 2
In 30 days, the Houthis shot down seven MQ-9 drones (around $30 million each). Several F-16s & an F-35 fighter jet were nearly hit. Two pilots & a flight deck crew member were injured when two F/A-18 Super Hornets fell into the Red Sea from an aircraft carrier 10 days apart nyti.ms/3H4z4x8
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