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· Jul 31
Introducing Horizons: A Revolutionary Investigative Platform Built to Solve Global Challenges
On Thursday, July 31, 2025, C4ADS publicly launched Horizons — our flagship investigative platform designed by investigators, for investigators. We’re excited to provide access to the platform for…
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From uncovering illicit networks to tracing financial flows, strong investigations demand more than access — they demand tools that keep up. So we built our own.
Introducing Horizons: a platform by investigators, for investigators. 1/4 🧵
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ICYMI: We just rolled out a design refresh for Horizons, improving visual consistency and accessibility with updated navigation, layout, and modals to help you search and work on a more cohesive interface.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ICYMI: We just rolled out a design refresh for Horizons, improving visual consistency and accessibility with updated navigation, layout, and modals to help you search and work on a more cohesive interface.
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NEW: Brazil’s most powerful criminal group, PCC, is using Florida-registered companies to move laundered money through US banks — despite sanctions and years of enforcement. 🧵1/5
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Billion-Dollar Blind Spot
Despite decades of law enforcement efforts and Western sanctions targeting drug trafficking and money laundering, new C4ADS analysis has uncovered several Florida-registered companies tied to three…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW: Brazil’s most powerful criminal group, PCC, is using Florida-registered companies to move laundered money through US banks — despite sanctions and years of enforcement. 🧵1/5
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C4ADS analyst Michael Di Girolamo joined Johns Hopkins SAIS’ Southeast Asia League of Students (SEALS) for a roundtable discussion on the scam industry in Myanmar — introducing the students to our investigative methods using PAI.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
C4ADS analyst Michael Di Girolamo joined Johns Hopkins SAIS’ Southeast Asia League of Students (SEALS) for a roundtable discussion on the scam industry in Myanmar — introducing the students to our investigative methods using PAI.
ICYMI: Program Director Krista Rasmussen spoke at the ICCF Group’s Inter-Parliamentary Policy Forum, diving deep into distant water squid fishing trends mapped in our recent Pier Pressure commentary.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ICYMI: Program Director Krista Rasmussen spoke at the ICCF Group’s Inter-Parliamentary Policy Forum, diving deep into distant water squid fishing trends mapped in our recent Pier Pressure commentary.
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ICYMI: Canadian tech has been routed through Hong Kong and found in Russian weapons. @thecfhk.bsky.social’s Backdoor to the Battlefield — supported by C4ADS analysis — maps how sanctions evasion networks move restricted goods through global systems.
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Backdoor to the Battlefield: How Hong Kong Funnels Canadian Technology into Russia’s War Machine
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November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ICYMI: Canadian tech has been routed through Hong Kong and found in Russian weapons. @thecfhk.bsky.social’s Backdoor to the Battlefield — supported by C4ADS analysis — maps how sanctions evasion networks move restricted goods through global systems.
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🚨 C4ADS is hiring! 🚨We currently have three open positions to help us advance global security through data-driven analysis and lead our analytical teams.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 C4ADS is hiring! 🚨We currently have three open positions to help us advance global security through data-driven analysis and lead our analytical teams.
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Why choose between following leads and maintaining context? With Horizons, you can highlight text, open new tabs, and investigate in parallel so you can keep the big picture while exploring the details that matter.
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Horizons
Providing a premier search and discovery tool for C4ADS' repository of investigative data.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why choose between following leads and maintaining context? With Horizons, you can highlight text, open new tabs, and investigate in parallel so you can keep the big picture while exploring the details that matter.
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ICYMI: @NewYorker.com investigates how Irish trafficker Daniel Kinahan continues to operate freely — drawing on the C4ADS Dubai Property Database to reveal the shadow networks enabling his operations.
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The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai
Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ICYMI: @NewYorker.com investigates how Irish trafficker Daniel Kinahan continues to operate freely — drawing on the C4ADS Dubai Property Database to reveal the shadow networks enabling his operations.
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Sneak peek: Our upcoming design refresh for Horizons prioritizes what matters most, getting you to insights faster without having to spend time struggling with navigation. Stay tuned to learn more about our commitment to effortless power — coming soon.
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Providing a premier search and discovery tool for C4ADS' repository of investigative data.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sneak peek: Our upcoming design refresh for Horizons prioritizes what matters most, getting you to insights faster without having to spend time struggling with navigation. Stay tuned to learn more about our commitment to effortless power — coming soon.
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Nickel powers the EV revolution — but at a cost.
A recent @GlobalVoices.org piece uses C4ADS data to show how the rush for nickel in Southeast Asia can bring pollution, inequality, and foreign control of local industries.
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A recent @GlobalVoices.org piece uses C4ADS data to show how the rush for nickel in Southeast Asia can bring pollution, inequality, and foreign control of local industries.
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Trade-offs behind the electric car boom in Southeast Asia
Critics warn that though Indonesia is viewed as a booming EV market and a source of raw materials, it is not reaping the benefits as an equal partner.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Nickel powers the EV revolution — but at a cost.
A recent @GlobalVoices.org piece uses C4ADS data to show how the rush for nickel in Southeast Asia can bring pollution, inequality, and foreign control of local industries.
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A recent @GlobalVoices.org piece uses C4ADS data to show how the rush for nickel in Southeast Asia can bring pollution, inequality, and foreign control of local industries.
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The RSF has reportedly seized the city of Al Fasher, marking an escalation of atrocities in Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Our conflict map, Sudan Shahid — made with
@cen4infores.bsky.social and the Sudan Human Rights Hub — helps record and map war crimes in real time.
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@cen4infores.bsky.social and the Sudan Human Rights Hub — helps record and map war crimes in real time.
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C4ADS Tracking Reported Atrocities in Al Fasher Through Sudan Shahid
As the RSF seizes control of Al Fasher amid reports of mass killings and ethnic cleansing, C4ADS encourages the use of our Sudan Shahid map — developed in collaboration with the Centre for Information...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The RSF has reportedly seized the city of Al Fasher, marking an escalation of atrocities in Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Our conflict map, Sudan Shahid — made with
@cen4infores.bsky.social and the Sudan Human Rights Hub — helps record and map war crimes in real time.
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@cen4infores.bsky.social and the Sudan Human Rights Hub — helps record and map war crimes in real time.
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A new @France24.com visual investigation documents suspected chlorine gas attacks in Sudan near the al-Jaili refinery. Evidence points to systemic chemical weapons use against civilians — a dangerous escalation in an under-reported war.
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Videos show the Sudanese army's use of chlorine gas as a weapon
On May 22, 2025, the US accused the Sudanese army of using chemical weapons in its war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The US presented no evidence to support the allegations, which…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A new @France24.com visual investigation documents suspected chlorine gas attacks in Sudan near the al-Jaili refinery. Evidence points to systemic chemical weapons use against civilians — a dangerous escalation in an under-reported war.
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The best digital tools are the ones you forget you’re using. Introducing a design refresh for Horizons: maximum power, minimum friction. Coming soon.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The best digital tools are the ones you forget you’re using. Introducing a design refresh for Horizons: maximum power, minimum friction. Coming soon.
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As we close out the month, we want to take a moment to spotlight our incredibly powerful camera trap database app — yet another powerful tech tool that our Wildlife Crimes team has created for our partners in the counter-wildlife trafficking movement. 🧵 1/4
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
As we close out the month, we want to take a moment to spotlight our incredibly powerful camera trap database app — yet another powerful tech tool that our Wildlife Crimes team has created for our partners in the counter-wildlife trafficking movement. 🧵 1/4
NEW: Across the South Pacific, the distant water squid fleet (DWSF) is on the move — causing tension in the region and posing problems for newfound host country Chile. 🧵1/
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Pier Pressure
In the past three months, more than 80 high-risk distant water squid fishing vessels have landed in Chilean ports — an increase of more than 1,600 percent over years past, when the fleet primarily…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
NEW: Across the South Pacific, the distant water squid fleet (DWSF) is on the move — causing tension in the region and posing problems for newfound host country Chile. 🧵1/
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ICYMI: @oceana.bsky.social featured our analysis in their recent blog on the 1,600% increase in Chinese distant water squid fishing vessels using Chilean ports.
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¿Por qué barcos chinos están usando puertos chilenos y no los peruanos? Oceana llama a revisar políticas impulsadas por país vecino
¿Por qué barcos chinos están usando puertos chilenos y no los peruanos? Oceana llama a revisar políticas impulsadas por país vecino
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October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
ICYMI: @oceana.bsky.social featured our analysis in their recent blog on the 1,600% increase in Chinese distant water squid fishing vessels using Chilean ports.
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Your data + our platform = unlimited investigative potential. Soon, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate your own proprietary data with Horizons in a carefully protected and structured way.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Your data + our platform = unlimited investigative potential. Soon, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate your own proprietary data with Horizons in a carefully protected and structured way.
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We’ve already highlighted the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard and our convening capacity this month, but there’s a lot more to our Wildlife Crimes programs’ digital toolkit — like our bank statement analysis app. 🧵 1/5
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’ve already highlighted the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard and our convening capacity this month, but there’s a lot more to our Wildlife Crimes programs’ digital toolkit — like our bank statement analysis app. 🧵 1/5
This week, C4ADS completed its second regional workshop under a two-year State INL initiative to counter wildlife and timber crimes in Mozambique, Namibia, and Angola -- convening to strengthen cooperation and lay the groundwork for lasting partnerships to fight transnational environmental crime.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This week, C4ADS completed its second regional workshop under a two-year State INL initiative to counter wildlife and timber crimes in Mozambique, Namibia, and Angola -- convening to strengthen cooperation and lay the groundwork for lasting partnerships to fight transnational environmental crime.
ICYMI: C4ADS Analyst Margaux Garcia spoke to @Economist.com about Russia’s expanding “shadow fleet,” exploring how these covert networks exploit vulnerabilities in maritime governance systems to continue operating.
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The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet
NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas
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October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ICYMI: C4ADS Analyst Margaux Garcia spoke to @Economist.com about Russia’s expanding “shadow fleet,” exploring how these covert networks exploit vulnerabilities in maritime governance systems to continue operating.
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Pop quiz: Where did the last data point you saw come from? How was it collected? When was it verified? If you can’t answer these questions, you need a better data dictionary.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Pop quiz: Where did the last data point you saw come from? How was it collected? When was it verified? If you can’t answer these questions, you need a better data dictionary.
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ICYMI: We supported Artis0nal’s new app SIMON – Peru’s first digital traceability and satellite monitoring platforms that empowers artisanal fisheries to easily track vessels, issues origin certificates, and bridge fragmented systems.
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SIMON: Driving the Digital Transition of Artisanal Fisheries in Peru
In a sector marked by informality and limited use of technological tools, SIMON emerges as a key for all those involved in artisanal fisheries. By combining satellite monitoring with digital traceability,...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
ICYMI: We supported Artis0nal’s new app SIMON – Peru’s first digital traceability and satellite monitoring platforms that empowers artisanal fisheries to easily track vessels, issues origin certificates, and bridge fragmented systems.
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The best investigations platforms don’t just give you data — they give you confidence in that data. That’s why Horizons’ data dictionary shows you acquisition methods, origin stories, and verification dates for everything contained in the platform.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The best investigations platforms don’t just give you data — they give you confidence in that data. That’s why Horizons’ data dictionary shows you acquisition methods, origin stories, and verification dates for everything contained in the platform.
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We’re proud to see our Eyes on Russia Map — created in collaboration with the @cen4infores.bsky.social — featured in a new exhibit from the International Spy Museum on the role of open-source intelligence in understanding conflict in Ukraine.
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Open Source: Ukraine & the Intelligence Revolution
A Digital Exhibition of the International Spy Museum
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October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We’re proud to see our Eyes on Russia Map — created in collaboration with the @cen4infores.bsky.social — featured in a new exhibit from the International Spy Museum on the role of open-source intelligence in understanding conflict in Ukraine.
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Why choose between focus and scale? Horizons lets you search hundreds of entities at once, save results to specific projects, export your findings, and collaborate with teammates — all in the same platform.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why choose between focus and scale? Horizons lets you search hundreds of entities at once, save results to specific projects, export your findings, and collaborate with teammates — all in the same platform.
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