Senior Video Journalist at BBC Verify & @BBCNews / London via DC, NYC, Dhaka & Geneva / she/her / my dog's views, not mine.
London, England
Joined November 2010
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As Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, some Republicans are claiming the White House is prioritising funding for foreign countries over hurricane victims – what are the facts? Produced with @SoyaInk @J_A_Horton
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Soraya Auer retweeted
Currently lots of day job looking at social ad spend, lots of which is going on FB: “‘The TikTok battle’ is a narrative in this campaign that simply won’t die… It’s filling space because the ‘AI election’ never showed up.”
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The Ukrainian port city of Odesa has been hit by Russian missiles nearly every day in the past week.
At BBC Verify, we've been analysing the footage of the latest strikes.
Produced with @paulybrown @SoyaInk @mesutersoz
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Rafah in southern Gaza is now one vast refugee camp. BBC Verify has looked at how Rafah became home to 1.5 million Palestinians. Produced with @nickeardleybbc and featuring some excellent geolocation work by the Verify team.
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🚨CALLING ALL RENTERS 🚨
I’m Investigating tenants experiences with DEPOSITS for @BBCNews💰
Have you struggled to get yours back? Or was it smooth sailing?
Please fill out (and SHARE) our short survey 👇🏼🏡
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Climate scientists are facing abuse - sometimes death and rape threats - from those who deny the existence of climate change
We take a deep dive into the world of climate misinformation and the real harm it's causing - w/ @JordanDunbar10
Listen now 📻
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Soraya Auer retweeted
Who is Yahya Sinwar? @FrankRGardner profiles the Hamas leader in Gaza, who Israel says is cornered underground. With thanks to @h_lovatt for his analysis bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
Soraya Auer retweeted
Today at BBC Verify, @paulybrown, Rollo Collins and I looked into a claims of a strike on a convoy of vehicles heading towards Southern Gaza. Here's what we know from videos we've verified:
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Soraya Auer retweeted
My colleagues have assessed how far Ukrainian forces have progressed in the south, and what signs there are of further breakthroughs along the frontline - by @FrankRGardner and @J_A_Horton @benedictgarman @paulybrown @Danict89 @HerdJemimah @Jacqui_Galvin bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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Russia has reported drone attacks in six regions + the annexed Crimea in the past 24 hours.
Here’s what we know about these and some of the other 190+ suspected drone strikes we have been tracking through Russian media reports since the start of the year bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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A large convoy of suspected #Wagner fighters has arrived from #Russia at a new camp in Belarus,
BBC Verify's analysis shows dozens of vehicles entering the camp at Tsel, a disused military base in southern #Belarus - about 64 miles (103km) from #Minsk.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-6623426…
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#Bakhmut before & after.
Our #BBCVerify team has examined satellite images ofRussian invasion’s destruction in the city, echoing Kremlin’s bombardment ofGrozny in Chechnya & Aleppo inSyria
Huge tnx @SoyaInk @HerdJemimah &all our team🙏🏻
#Ukraine #Russia
youtu.be/7tDJ7tDg_V8
Soraya Auer retweeted
BBC Verify's 1st piece for @BBCNews at 10:
We examined the extent of destruction in the Ukrainian city of #Bakhmut.
A powerful story between what the city was & today’s devastation
Amazing work by @OlgaMalchevska @SoyaInk @HerdJemimah @Jacqui_Galvin
youtu.be/7tDJ7tDg_V8
Powerful before & afters found by our osint/UGC sleuths Richy Irvine-Brown, Alex Murray @benedictgarman @Danict89 and so many others. Team work is the only way to cover such hard stories. V proud of our Verify team’s first News at 10! 🙏🏼
Soraya Auer retweeted
A link to our new @frontlineclub journalist and field producer HEFAT courses being run in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv. The course is free to all Ukrainian media workers going to the frontline. It’s free. Thanks 🙏
#Ukraine
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Soraya Auer retweeted
It’s official! My team will be part of BBC Verify - a new team of investigative journalists with years of experience in verification work and forensic journalism. Covering disinformation will still be an important part of our daily work too. More here bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbc-ne…
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New footage from the cafe where pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed has fueled speculation Darya Trepova knew there would be an explosion. But what does the video actually show? Latest from me with @joshcheetham @Danict89 @SoyaInk @Jacqui_Galvin bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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My team has analysed >1100 previously banned Twitter accounts that were reinstated under Elon Musk.
We found evidence of abuse and misinformation being posted in over a third of them. By @KayleenDevlin @adkrobinson @Shayan86 @alistaircoleman @paulybrown
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64…
Soraya Auer retweeted
More than 230 athletes and coaches have been killed since the #Ukraine invasion.
I spent months speaking with the family and relatives of six athletes who have died. The athletes are from a range of sports from American football to water polo.
bbc.co.uk/sport/64641089
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