How Quartz used AI to sort through the Luanda Leaks

More than 700,000 leaked documents, weighing in at 356 gigabytes, reveal how Isabel dos Santos, the wealthiest woman in Africa and the daughter of Angola’s former president, siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public money out of one of the poorest countries on the planet. Digging into such leaks is something the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has plenty of experience with. Western accountants and consultants played a role in legitimizing Isabel dos Santo’s empire—and that a failure to regulate these companies in the West lets them do so.