Huge cache of leaked documents reveals shady offshore dealings of many world leaders. Image from ICIJ on Twitter, edited by Tetyana Lokot.
On Sunday, April 3, a new hashtag started trending on Twitter: #panamapapers. This, coupled with unusual activity on many mainstream media and investigative news websites, which received thousands of views within hours, was the Internet’s reaction to a financial news bombshell that some journalists are calling “one of the biggest leaks in journalistic history.”
A joint yearlong investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than a …read more
Source: Global Voices
