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At least 20 million AR-15s are stored and stashed across the country
~13.7 million of those have been manufactured since Newtown in 2012
1 in 20 U.S. adults now owns one
Spend some time with this powerful project, published today by The Washington Post.washingtonpost.com/nation/in…
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Thrilled to win two @sajahq awards for some hugely consequential stories for India: the hacking and surveillance of the Bhima Koregaon activists and Facebook’s lack of safety protocols that fuelled hate speech and violence in India.
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Does the gig economy do best when the real economy is flailing? In their earnings calls, executives at Uber, Lyft, and Doordash said inflation was helping them recruit and retain struggling gig workers washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Breaking News: The @wpdatateam is expanding, big time!! We started last year w/ 6 data journalists, added @jeremybmerrill & @eh_mah_nwel to our team and now have FOUR additional full-time positions for data reporters in wellness, business, climate + demographics/public policy 1/?
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NEW: Kidneys accidentally tossed in the trash. A heart transplant recipient told he might die soon because his donor had brain cancer. Blood type mistakes leading to donated hearts, kidneys and lungs being rejected. from @LennyMBernstein and me washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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we're hiring for ANOTHER new job on the data team at @washingtonpost, this time a business data reporter! work with me! washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY🚨
Attention editors, this is an extra special one!
@RestofWorld is looking for a Features Editor to work on our award-winning longform stories. Location is flexible. And you get to work with me!
All the information you need is here: restofworld.org/about/hiring…
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“With DoorDash, I know where my food is. That should at least be the case for a life-saving organ.”
The network for organ transplants relies on archaic software and crashes for hours at a time, @josephmenn and @LennyMBernstein report. washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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NEW: What, exactly, would have to go wrong for the Secret Service to lose agents' Jan. 6 phone data entirely by accident in a system update?
The expert consensus: A *lot* — unless the data retention system was set up to fail in the first place. Our story: washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax. @ElaheIzadi with the fascinating details behind the story washingtonpost.com/media/202…
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One of my colleagues wrote about getting a vasectomy recently. His experience is on the left.
Another Vice writer wrote in 2019 about getting her tubes tied. Her experience is on the right.
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Remote work is an equality issue: "In the U.S., remote job offers were more likely to be filled by people of color, people with disabilities & veterans … Around the world, candidates who accepted remote offers were more likely to be women" wapo.st/3crES4v @NaomiNixWrites
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NEW: ‘Hit the kill switch’: How Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids around the world. A trove of 124,000 newly released documents show Kalanick's direct involvement in discussions around covert tools to stymie investigators washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Was really moved listening to @Tatum_Hunter_ tell her story today w @AliVelshi. “Whether or not they choose to parent, they will experience the profound loss of autonomy and dignity that coerced pregnancy and birth always impose” is from the Dobbs dissent msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/s…
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When I got pregnant as a teen, I couldn’t get an abortion without parental permission. I relinquished my son, and my adoption was possibly the ideal-est ever -- open and loving. But that didn't keep me safe from other people's cruelty or my own grief. 🧵
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NEW: The data privacy risks associated with abortion aren’t hypothetical. Cases in Mississippi and Indiana could preview how digital evidence could be used post-Roe. w/ @pranshuverma_ and @ClaireParkerDC washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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NEW exclusive from me @washingtonpost :
Planned Parenthood left marketing trackers running on its search and scheduling pages that shared IP address — and, in some cases, selected method of abortion — with big tech companies. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Exclusive: A new bill would enable workers to report sexual harassment and assault even if they signed a NDA. The legislation comes nearly 5 years after #MeToo exposed how confidentiality agreements can muzzle survivors. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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New: Tech giants have spent years building a massive DC lobbying operation. They're now fighting the battle they were gearing up for: Torpedoing the bipartisan antitrust bills that would rein in dominant platforms' power to squash competition. washingtonpost.com/technolog…