The first Deep Dives Challenge has come to an end and we’d like to thank all the participants who made a submission in the tight 7 day window.
@snowpea
@yandot
@deliberator
@anouk.nox
@dedicatedguy
@tawasi
@palikari123
@yungchief
To see the original research challenge post, click here
Corruption in Venezuelan Energy Sector
By @palikari123
Targeted Individual Testimonies | Own Experience as a T I
By @anouk.nox
Corruption and Deceit Courtesy of Wikileaks Files
By @deliberator
We’d like to take a moment to recognize the research article submitted by @palikari123, it was an excellent piece of research, well supported with articles and leaks from cryptome.org, and concisely written. We were very impressed with this submission, Bravo!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the inaugural Deep Dives Challenge. There was a nice variety of subject matter in the contributions and even a number of Steemians who’ve had first-hand experience as being T.I.’s and are still feeling the ramifications today!!
These personal accounts add another dimension to this research and from the descriptions found in the Global Intelligence Files, this is quite disconcerting. Thanks to all of you for showing the courage to talk about what it’s like being a T.I., it must not have been easy sharing this.
We also hope that you enjoyed digging in the Wikileaks vaults for hidden gems. We anticipate that this is just the beginning and look forward to more great research in the weeks and months ahead.
As always, we love to hear from you. So please come visit us in the TWB Discord ‘the big dig’ channel or leave your feedback in the comments below.
As was discussed in the Discord channel The Big Dig, solid research takes time so we’ve decided that future installments of Deep Dives will be run for 2 weeks. We hope that by giving participants more time, they can dig a little deeper and still have enough time to organize their research before the deadline.
Also, we’d like to make it known that there will be a rotating schedule of the larger archives such as Wikileaks. This means if you miss a posting deadline you may have an opportunity to post it in future challenges.
The next edition of Deep Dives will also be open ended but this time the focus will be on the CIA Library.
This archive contains publicly available government documents that span over several decades. It’s a diverse collection but it’s not well organized, especially in comparison to the Wikileaks collection.