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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries

@jenvalentino.bsky.social
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New York Times reporter on the investigations desk, focusing on technology and data journalism. Reach me on Signal at jenval.06 www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-valenti…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Latest story from me and @kateconger.com, a reminder that even as AI creates new avenues for CSAM creation/distribution, X struggles with the "solved problem" of removing known, previously flagged, illegal images from its platform
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute Condemns Arrest of Journalists Reporting on Minneapolis Protests
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A timely reminder from Clayton Weimers of Reporters Without Borders USA: "Journalists are legally permitted to publish government secrets and the courts have again and again reaffirmed that First Amendment right."
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FBI searches Washington Post reporter’s home | CNN Business
Last month, Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson penned a first-person piece about her long year as “the federal government whisperer,” receiving tips from hundreds of federal workers. On Wednesda...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it" www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...
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Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Everyone knows that presidential pardons do not apply to state charges. What this order presupposes is ... maybe they do.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
[shocked Pikachu face meme]
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Just so y'all know ... a huge part of content moderation and online safety at tech platforms is geared toward preventing the spread of *child sex abuse material*.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
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Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Apropos of nothing: The vast majority of my family is MAGA, and they've been obsessed for years with the idea that NYC some kind of criminal hellscape. They were also quite concerned with our recent local election, oddly enough. And I'm wondering now whether to send them some screenshots or nah.
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Well worth the time to read this piece by the ACLU's Brett Max Kaufman on the Trump administration's boat strikes. Here's the kicker:
The problem is, and always has been, that playing with executive power is a dangerous game, and its consequences are hard and perhaps impossible to contain. If critics of the Trump boat strikes truly want to usher in a new era of respect for the rule of law, they must acknowledge that, in the shadow of the mounting democratic menace that Trump’s entire second administration represents, the legal process that yielded these strikes should not be seen as an aberration from the last quarter century of always-secret and often-unreviewable executive-branch legal reasoning, but the apotheosis of it.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 20/11/2025
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This experience mirrors reports of A.I. chatbots reinforcing delusional thinking in some people, as @kashhill.bsky.social has written about extensively. One good point is that certain communities on the internet did this already (think QAnon). But A.I. is available 24-7 and is even more insular.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Filing this under "What could possibly go wrong?" futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things
OpenAI confirmed that it had suspended FoloToy's access to its AI models after a damning report about the toymaker's AI teddy bear.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Amid military strikes on Venezuelan boats, Trump's team has said Pres. Maduro leads the "narcoterrorist org Cartel de los Soles." But "Cartel de los Soles" is not a literal group. Just a Venezuelan figure of speech. More great work from @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Earlier this year, agents found videos showing violent sexual abuse of a young child. But the agents have since been asked to arrest undocumented immigrants, hindering progress toward rescue. This and more from @mhkeller.bsky.social and team in an important story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Always love a story that involves reporters looking through thousands of hours of mind-numbing video. (I say this seriously.)
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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Both The New York Times and Airwars are tracking the U.S. strikes on boats in the Carribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. 64 or 65 killed in 15 separate incidents. NYT: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Airwars: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
PSA: Please stop giving advice on spotting the hallmarks of A.I.-generated videos. Even the pros are are having a hard time. We can't OSINT sleuth our way out of this problem. wapo.st/4ljYzJy
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Analysis | How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t.
It’s time to stop trying to be AI detectives. We need a different approach to a world awash in realistic AI.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has repeatedly criticized his rival, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, for living in a rent-stabilized apartment, occupied a rent-stabilized unit himself when he was a young professional living in New York City in the 1980s.
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Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New Yorkers: Come to City Hall Park tomorrow at noon and join the unionized reporters, photographers and editors of the New York Daily News, as we call on Heath Freeman and Alden Global Capital to pay fair wages and agree to worker protections.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Oh my God, its title is "Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence." The Wikipedia article about it is giving me a panic attack. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diella_...
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Updating my LEGO White House
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Aggregate measures say the economy is doing pretty well right now. But that obscures a growing divide: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by stock market gains, are spending. Low-and middle-income Americans are struggling amid inflation and a weakening labor market. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
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Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In Mexico, a doctor has to stitch kids up by flashlight. In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20% of the country’s electricity (!). In Chile, aquifers are in danger. Important story by @paulmozur.bsky.social @satariano.bsky.social, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This good piece by @stuartathompson.bsky.social really drives home how much AI slop the president posts these days. Also, it uses the word "excrement" in the second paragraph. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Gift Article)
The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Didn't expect anyone to take "internet of shit" quite so literally.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs
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The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s press pass policy:
“Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment. Since the policy was first announced, we have expressed concerns that it constrains how journalists can report on the U.S. military, which is funded by nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars annually. The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating. The Times is dedicated to pursuing the public interest through deep, fair reporting and an unwavering pursuit of the facts.” 

Richard Stevenson, Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
That name sounds super Latin. Seems sus.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is like a tweet thread from back when social media was good.
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Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I hope you'll read this, all the way thru. A gift article on a really important thing that happened today in Newark. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
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This City Was Forced to Overhaul Its Police Department. Crime Plummeted.
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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
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‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Lawyers, tell me, is it bad when a federal judge describes having to "endure" your allegations and "florid," "enervating" prose? And then rejects your complaint as "decidedly improper and impermissible" without the defense even filing a word? (Trump v. NYT) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is by Karl Rove.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 18/09/2025
The United States is a country where comedians must take care not to offend the ruling party if they want to keep their jobs.
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Russ Buettner @russbuettner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
And now, this…
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Weird how I keep thinking about this
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In my inbox ...
An image of an email from AG Sulzberger describing a lawsuit from President Trump against the New York Times as frivolous and an attempt to stifle and punish independent reporting.
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