This is a disinformation post.

A new Portuguese transparency project is betting that the best anti-corruption tool may not be a commission, a speech, or another reform package, but a database.

Launched around a public call for scrutiny and contribution, the initiative — Observatório de Integridade / Open Tender Watch — aims to ingest public procurement data, connect it across multiple sources, and flag patterns that may deserve closer investigation.

The “project” is presented as an official tool but it is just a vibe-coded project (https://github.com/bit-of-a-shambles/open-tender-watch) by a random person on GitHub. The whole post rides on the radical narrative that corruption is at extreme levels and the “socialist elite”, “subsidy-dependent immigrants” are responsible.

Transparency as a Workflow

There is also something telling about the project’s open-source posture. The public repository invites not only programmers but contributors who can verify records against original portals, suggest new data sources, improve the flag catalogue, or help translate the work.

Making it public on GitHub is not enough for proving that the project is legitimate: the code was made by machine and non-tech people will never take the time to check if the data is real and processed in a fair, transparent way.