This is absolutely wild. There's so little enforcement of laws that these guys are just openly sharing all their AI slop product sales techniques (and turning THAT into a business too‼️). Great reporting www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...

Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA

How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."

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We have a deal with ProPublica mgmt! So thankful for all the public support we received and for the effort of all the workers who make up ProPublica. If you were withholding your donation due to the fight, it's time to help us out so we can continue doing what we do best: holding power to account

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 5d ago

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

I just published an update to our 527 Explorer of political nonprofits. We added over 500k new records since our last update in June. It's an election year, meaning I will be updating this every month until the election. Happy Friday! projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

So proud to have been awarded the 2026 @ire.org Freedom of Information Award for work on the Rx Roulette series and Rx Inspector. I wasn't able to attend IRE so this was my first time seeing it 🥰

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromises FCC commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. The agency’s chair, Brendan Carr, has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Well if anything ever made me sure that humans are better than AI it's going state by state looking at statues and pulling out regulatory information. AI overviews are almost always wrong. They also frequently cite other (incorrect) AI sources that all refer back to completely made up sources. 🤦

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News apps developer Brandon Roberts says it best: No one who works at ProPublica should be living paycheck to paycheck. Support our fight for fair wages: www.propublicaguild.org

UPDATE: New data has arrived on ProPublica's 527 explorer! See the latest filings made by political nonprofits, up to the end of May. projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

Hey all! The Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference is back in Manhattan Aug 14-16. I'll be speaking about practical technical challenges facing journalists and how you all can help solve them. www.hope.net If you're going to be there, reach out.

Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is an annual conference for hackers, makers, and tech enthusiasts based in New York City.

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If you listened to @npr.org's Up First this weekend, you heard a local Seattle story that's haunted me and my reporting partners for years. Grateful that Up First aired the first episode of We Keep Us Safe, our podcast series investigating the unsolved killing of Antonio Mays Jr.

How an anti-police violence protest ended in a teen’s death : Up First from NPR

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to be part of the racial justice movement. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as C...

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Such a good read about raw milk under Trump's FDA 👇

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

I wanted to highlight this interesting paper by @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social and Mowafak Allaham about how often AI search engines cite AI-generated content Thread 1/

Beyond excited for the debut of ProPublica's podcast. Subscribe! propub.li/42ULaRa

Paper Trail

Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show ...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

NEW: Introducing “Paper Trail,” ProPublica’s new podcast. Each episode, we’ll take you inside an investigation, uncovering hidden facts and secrets — and doing what we do best: showing you the receipts. ▶️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. First episode drops May 14: propub.li/42ULaRa

🥰 So proud to be a Pulitzer finalist in investigative reporting

A special shoutout to the team behind @propublica.org's Rx Inspector, a part of this year's Pulitzer finalist entry for investigative reporting. Well done @bxroberts.org Ruth Talbot @nmcmillan.bsky.social @jdf.bsky.social and so many others projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

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I just updated 527 Explorer, which includes filings through the end of Q1 2026. 1.2M total new records detailing contributions, expenditures and other organizational information. projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

Trump Admin financial disclosures update! We added Witkoff, Mullin, and a page to see who was recently added. (We're still awaiting Jared Kushner's disclosures) 👇👇

Al Shaw@shaw.al · 4mo ago

We just updated our Trump Admin financial disclosures database with 27 new appointees/nominees including Kevin Warsh, Markwayne Mullin and Steven Witkoff. We also added a feature to sort names in our database by most recently added. 👉 projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

We are on strike today y'all. See this note about our event 👇

Al Shaw@shaw.al · 4mo ago

If you registered to come to the event today on how to use the ProPublica Trump disclosures News app, the @propublicaguild.org is asking y’all NOT TO ATTEND in support of our strike today. We hate to do this, but management isn’t offering us a fair deal.

UPDATE: We just added more info to the Trump Team Financials app! Now including President Trump's most recent financial transactions, which were filed late + released the same day we published our app. You can now see his transactions up until late Jan 2026. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Donald J. Trump - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica

Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

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THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/

It's 2026, an election year (💀). That means its time to update ProPublica's 527 Explorer! This latest update brings us current through 2025, adding 460k new records. I'll be updating more frequently this year. Follow for updates & LMK what you do w/ it projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

Interesting piece about abuse of generative AI in contract bid protests: "Federal procurement is not prepared to deal with contractors like Oready, LLC (Oready), which has misused GenAI to file a barrage of seventeen pro se protests and appeals over eight months" content.ncmahq.org/contractmana...

More impact from my investigation with @shaw.al: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing our reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in investments when he shut down crypto investigations. www.propublica.org/article/todd...

Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation

The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...

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I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.

People have been asking, so we published it: The data linking generic drugs to the facilities that make them! You can download the data on GitHub. 👇👇 github.com/propublica/r...

GitHub - propublica/rx-inspector-data: Public release of Rx Inspector data linking generic drugs to the factories that made them

Public release of Rx Inspector data linking generic drugs to the factories that made them - propublica/rx-inspector-data

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Last month, @propublica.org released Rx Inspector, a groundbreaking tool that lets you find the factories where your generic drugs were manufactured. Now we're making available the data that powers it. via @bxroberts.org www.propublica.org/article/rx-i...

ProPublica Publishes Unreleased Data on the Origins of Generic Prescription Drugs

The dataset powers our Rx Inspector tool, which lets you find the factories that made your generic drugs and their FDA inspection track records.

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