June 17, 2026

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) today announced a strategic partnership with W Social, the newly unveiled social media network designed to counter the rise of bot-driven disinformation and data privacy erosion on mainstream platforms.

W Social, introduced earlier this year by privacy expert Anna Zeiter at the World Economic Forum, was built as a European-hosted, federated alternative to U.S.-based tech giants. W is built on the open AT-Protocol, a global standard for interoperable social networking, which allows posts and content to work across apps, like Bluesky, rather than being locked into a single platform.

"We are seeing investigative journalism increasingly drowned out on traditional social platforms by algorithmic bias, state-backed bot armies, and coordinated smear campaigns,” said OCCRP Co-Founder Paul Radu. "Partnering with W Social is an opportunity to help build a reliable information ecosystem powered by OCCRP's investigative reporting so we can better serve the public."

“W Social has many aims and values and one of those is to practically support and encourage quality journalism in Europe and across the world," said W Social CEO Anna Zeiter. "We are delighted to have the OCCRP team and its amazing investigative network as one of our first media partners.”

OCCRP is posting on W Social under the handle @occrp.

For more information, contact [email protected].

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