For the 2022 JournalismAI fellowship, the Guardian teamed up with Daily Maverick and Follow the Money with a shared aim to uncover ‘bad actors’ hidden in extensive digital corpora, of which whistleblower leaks have become the most emblematic example.
Investigative journalism involves large data dumps and a lot of manual work. Our aim in this project was to build a pipeline powered by AI to automatically surface and organise people of interest from data leaks. This would make uncovering “bad actors” quicker and easier, and lead to exclusive stories.
