Journalists have found popular right-wing podcasters hard to cover, but expert journalists at the 2026 NICAR conference shared techniques for digging into this cohort's global influence.

Crypto casino Stake pays Drake and other stars to bet, spreading clips of big wins to impressionable gamblers. The numbers show unusual luck is at work.

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Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people i...

Bloomberg investigative data journalist Leon Yin used WhatsApp to crowdsource data from Uber and Lyft drivers in New York City about company lockouts during a local, minimum wage dispute.

“The question is, Can they hang?”

Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay

How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

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How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.

New York City is trying to close a loophole that Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have used to deny drivers millions of dollars in pay with a raft of new measures that would effectively raise thei...

Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.

Introduction, case studies, and exercises for finding and using undocumented APIs hidden in plain sight.

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Alan Filion, believed to have operated under the handle “Torswats,” admitted to making more than 375 fake threats against schools, places of worship, and government buildings around the United States.

Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay

Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay

Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone

Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone

LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.

Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone

By the contract's final day, Chicago taxpayers will have paid more than $53 million since 2018 for a system that Mayor Brandon Johnson said never provided a return on the city’s investment or the resu...

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AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.

As the world’s biggest democracy goes to polls in a few months, election campaign managers have a new mandate: Grow YouTube presence.

As the new year begins, ILSR announced its latest tally of municipal broadband networks which shows a dramatic surge in the number of communities building publicly-owned, locally controlled high-speed...

January 17, 2024 “Still Loading,” The Markup investigation, which exposed vast disparities in internet service quality from four major providers, earned the first place prize in the 2023 Philip Me...