Hugo Williams

Journalist, former @bbcworldservice.

[Global Nation @_GlobalNation]

🚨 The #GlobalSolidarityReport is LIVE!

This report includes for the first time ever a tool designed to measure #globalsolidarity and provides us with ways that we can strengthen solidarity and weather the future storms together.

Read it here ➡️ https://t.co/wd8argp6LM

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

“Cancer became just like a flu…”

Ali, a young man from Iraq who lived on a @bp_plc oil field, died of leukaemia last Friday.

His father challenged BP at its AGM, demanding an end to its cancer-causing pollution.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The billion-dollar scammers who will steal your life savings https://t.co/tfWWM1OIok

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

Inside South East Asia's huge "pig butchering" romance scam compounds, where criminal gangs are forcing workers to catfish victims all over the world.

Watch the full documentary on YouTube https://t.co/VUHqWciVPi

[Claire Williams @ClaireWNews]

MUST WATCH: insightful doc from the brilliant @NataliaZuo and #bbceye team into the pig butchering romance scam which sees people trafficked into compounds and beaten unless they successfully scam online victims of millions of dollars. 🎥 @bbcthree @BBCiPlayer now.

[jake tacchi @jaketacchi]

NEW INVESTIGATION #BBCEYE

Each year, people around the world lose millions of dollars to “the pig butchering romance scam”.

#pigscam #shazhupan #杀猪盘

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

How the Egyptian police are using dating apps to seek and arrest the country’s LGBTQ+ community

Warning: Video contains disturbing scenes

🎧 https://t.co/Yhu8tZgyw1

[Phoebe Cooke @CookePhoebe]

In the coming days, an LNG tanker will dock in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, plugging into a global fossil fuel trade worth $100 billion.

My latest for @DeSmog explores the future of gas in Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine👇

https://t.co/oHzHxKsFFz

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

‘Super coral’ in the Red Sea is being flooded with toxic wastewater, investigation finds https://t.co/u4oIJp25kr

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Family secretly film life in Russian-occupied Ukraine
https://t.co/9QPEcfZAiq

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

TikTok taking up to 70% of money donated to Syrian displaced families begging on the app, BBC investigation finds https://t.co/SIIazSnWYh

[jake tacchi @jaketacchi]

NEW 🇷🇺 INVESTIGATION - 🧵

Six months ago two audio clips appeared online.

They were recorded inside Moscow's Brateyevo police station on a day when large anti-war demonstrations swept Russia.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The Ukrainian families living in an underground station for three months https://t.co/9J9wxOpLtL

[Flora Carmichael @FloraCarmichael]

The Trust in News 2022 conference kicks off today with a fantastic panel on disinformation in Russia and Ukraine - tune in live here https://t.co/QMnErivbqr #TIN22

[Ali Hamedani @alihamedanii]

Teenage schoolgirls in Afghanistan have told us of their growing desperation as they continue to be excluded from school more than three months after the Taliban takeover.
⁦@hugotwilliams⁩ https://t.co/LlpXhYI9PV

[Rebecca Skippage @rebeccaskippage]

So proud to be part of the excellent team launching this today! 🇮🇳

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is one we all need: 'respair' (16th century): fresh hope; a recovery from despair.

#COP26

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The Baghdad traffic cop who works in 50C heat

https://t.co/IdctbH6cOF

[Rebecca Skippage @rebeccaskippage]

1/2 *clears throat* Completely delighted to say I’ve been appointed as the BBC’s first Disinformation Editor (to be clear: covering not creating). Couldn’t have done it without the skill, tenacity and all-round brilliance of the amazing squad of disinfo journalists I work with.

[DW Innovation @dw_innovation]

Our @WeVerify project has just released a significantly updated and re-designed #verification plug-in (v0.75). Existing users: just close your Chrome browser and start it again to get the update. New users (joining over 50k others): download it here: https://t.co/lyC02jCBd6