NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.
*see next post in thread
Ecommerce fraud is rampant. It's also easy to launch and hard to trace.
My new guide to investigating ecommerce sites covers how to ID the store platform, trace ownership, analyze traffic, do a safe test purchase etc. I also found a few free, new-to-me tools: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
Incredible, important journalism =>
22.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech.
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Every time I do a double-take at Newark Penn Station I wonder why they don't just name it "Manhattan Station"
06.02.2026 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What's also wild about this is what it says about all of the other companies who must be encountering this same issue and *not* reporting it to the authorities.
Also, companies can most easily report *known images*. There are many more *previously unreported images* that are harder to detect.
What data does Grok cite when asked about race and intelligence? A misused genetic database that researchers lost control of: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
24.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Musk’s participation in the bikini trend opened the floodgates. Grok went from making 300k images a week to 4.4 million. Read more from me, @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
22.01.2026 15:04 — 👍 784 🔁 228 💬 4 📌 14
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
22.01.2026 14:56 — 👍 3426 🔁 1454 💬 13 📌 172
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.
I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
NEW INVESTIGATION: What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50.
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...
Highlighting this 2021 piece from my colleagues that looked into how police justify killing drivers, often saying the vehicle was a weapon.
www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/u...
Patients spending $50,000 chasing remedies. Permanent scars.
NYS investigation finds 40% of med spas cited for violations. One even injected fentanyl.
Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated.
It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans.
And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
Most people will focus on the insider trading element.
What's more concerning is how this could've been a tip-off of pending military action. Like Signalgate, except anyone can see it in real time.
trashed living room with stairwell and the ceiling is caving in but there's a pristine white couch and ottomans with blue throw pillows and matching rug https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6327-Wheeler-St-Philadelphia-PA-19142/10403865_zpid/?
dining room of same with the caving in ceiling directly above a dining table and full service for 8
upstairs bedroom with crumbling walls and debris all over the bare subfloor but a pristine while bed and fabric headboard and shelves and art on the walls
another bedroom, water stained ceiling and drywall peeling off but a kids bedroom with again pristine white sheets and art on the walls and toys. apparently they got the electric turned back on too
i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI
31.12.2025 14:40 — 👍 2360 🔁 592 💬 27 📌 2
For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla’s doors. With no official statistics, Bloomberg did its own analysis on the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. Read more: bloom.bg/49tm0fF
📷️: Getty Images
Cannot think of a grimmer, sadder headline.
"I’m a Two-Time School-Shooting Survivor: Zoe Weissman was 12 when she lived through Parkland. At 20, she just went through it again at Brown University." -- www.thecut.com/article/brow...
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
15.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 349 🔁 98 💬 11 📌 5
Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion:
Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”
Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
11.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 1336 🔁 578 💬 44 📌 232it took the NYPD a week to find a man dead inside a car with illegal tinted windows and parked in front of a fire hydrant just 600 feet from their front door
09.12.2025 03:23 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Isn't it funny how little regulation there is for this tech (genAI) that is so easily making CSAM?
03.12.2025 18:10 — 👍 176 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 2
Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
1/2
Red light CRIMINAL summonses against cyclists.
Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.
This is the first chart drafted by an AI assistant, and then reviewed by a human editor, to be published on the Reuters homepage.
02.12.2025 22:38 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Latest piece on the effects of the immigration crackdown: Internal DHS documents show that investigators have rescued or identified 300 fewer child sexual abuse victims this year compared to last year.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
