1/ The U.S. is in the advanced stages of discussing new sanctions on Chinese surveillance companies over sales to Iran's security forces.
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I’m sad to report that I am leaving to pursue other projects, which I will announce soon. It was an honor and a privilege to found five years ago to create an investigative newsroom that integrated engineers and journalists. /1
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TikTok is trying to win Washington’s trust with a playbook recalling the (unsuccessful) strategy that Huawei, another Chinese-owned company, took in the U.S. and swaths of Europe.
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To make sense of these 22,000 messages we wrote a little code, saved them into a searchable database, and put them into time order. We were able to reconstruct every day in the collection and read the messages exactly as Jones had received them
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There's so much here y'all - Mike's writing is SO, SO GOOD, and this really put my investigative skills to the test. Get ready.
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Some news: Tomorrow SPLC will publish Part 1 of a five part series into the text messages found on Alex Jones's phone.
Investigation by me and @MeganSquire0.
I think this is the first story I've ever worked on where my editor stuck a content warning on top of it.
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Some news: Tomorrow SPLC will publish Part 1 of a five part series into the text messages found on Alex Jones's phone.
Investigation by me and .
I think this is the first story I've ever worked on where my editor stuck a content warning on top of it.
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TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew will be making his first appearance before a U.S. congressional panel.
Also in the story: the detail that he once interned at FB 😂
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David Sanford inspired a generation of reporters at the with his raw reporting about AIDS. It was also a topic that was personal to him. Read his '96 pg 1 story: wsj.com/articles/SB847
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In August, as his wife was on a trip to Shanghai, authorities told her they want Mr. Yu to return to China for questions about his online activity, and that she can’t leave until he does—using a travel ban to extend domestic dissent controls into the U.S.
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After two years of talks, TikTok is trying a new tack to stay in the U.S.: increased transparency. In recent conversations in Washington, TikTok has revealed details of a $1.5 billion plan to reorganize the company’s U.S. operations.
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1/ In China, most apps have changed their home page to black and white since Nov 30, the day of Jiang Zemin's death. The only thing remaining in color? Photos of Xi Jinping and the Politburo:
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Google is under fire from officials and legislators in Hong Kong over a pro-democracy song that is showing up in search results for the national anthem, raising tensions between American tech giants and authorities here
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if you would like to read about something other than Twitter this evening, we published the Wall Street Journal’s first (?!) oral history this weekend, about TikTok’s rise over the past five years
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From teen lip synching app to U.S. national security concern: I made a podcast with looking back at 5 years of TikTok told by the people who witnessed it's meteoric rise first hand
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"I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with 'go nuts, show nuts' in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible," sez CEO
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Some quick math: Twitter currently has ~423,700 verified users. If 10% of them paid $8 a month, the company would generate an additional $4.1 million in revenue a year. For reference, co made $4.5 billion in ad revenue last year.
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1/ THREAD: The ran checks on China's most popular social media platforms in the weeks before the Party Congress, searching for the names of Chinese leader Xi, the standing committee members and its 31 provincial and region Party chiefs. Here's what we found:
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Quite a night for quite a team! And very well stated by @JeffHorwitz.
Also, @georgia_wells won two Loebs! Who does that??? twitter.com/JoannaStern/st…
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"Upon reflection of a career filled w/ ppl who poured into me, prayed for me, encouraged me, saw my vision, understood that diversity matters, & drowned out the doubters when I couldn’t, the headline for this acceptance speech is..."
#loebawards
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We will be hosting two more virtual information sessions about internships. The next one is tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. ET: calendly.com/aisha-al-musli
The last one is on Monday, Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. ET.
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The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) is now accepting applications for newsroom internships in the U.S. for 2023
The deadline for spring is Oct. 17 and summer is Nov. 4. Visit medium.com/wsj-internships to learn more. To apply, visit wsj.jobs. #journalismjobsShow this thread
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Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, a former hacker, joined the social-media firm to help fix its reputation for security challenges wsj.com/articles/twitt by
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There was a reason Google co-founder Sergey Brin filed for divorce from his wife earlier this year: Elon Musk. Your mid-summer beach read from me and
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What would you do? Your child seems a bit unstable and obsessed with school shooters. You find his journal in which he lays out a plot to kill you and then his classmates. These parents stopped their kids from potentially becoming the next school shooter.
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Even as China’s hard-line covid policies have transformed virtually every other aspect of daily life…the authorities seem to have had little success governing these swimming spaces
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In light of today's Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade, you (EVEN YOU MEN) need to read this article by & . Period trackers may be helpful, but the data they collect could be used against you if your state plans to criminalize abortion. Yes, really
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Re-sharing this story because now it's more relevant than ever. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and legal experts say your data could be used against you in some states. Here's what you need to know: wsj.com/articles/how-p
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Excited to announce the 5th report by our Creative Inquiry students at the , "Oh the Places You'll Guo!", an analysis of an ongoing influence operation consisting of 250+ unique cartoons, thousands of posts, across 450+ websites, in several languages. (1/N)
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This wouldn’t be happening if not for the investigative reporting several years ago by The Indianapolis Star. Local journalism is so important.
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The Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy today were identified in our video investigation of the Capitol riot less than three weeks after the incident. youtu.be/n0MA5GjR6Zo via
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The internal investigation into Sheryl Sandberg's personal use of FB resources - including to plan her upcoming wedding - was broader than the Activision Blizzard/Daily Mail review we earlier reported. And is still ongoing. Inside Sandberg's departure
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For everyone wondering, here's why Sheryl Sandberg quit Facebook’s Meta wsj.com/articles/why-s with , , and
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Also: Ms. Thomas began seeking therapy in her late 20s, but some counselors turned her away, politely informing her they didn’t feel equipped to treat a mass-shooting survivor
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Many school-shooting survivors struggle to cope with the trauma for decades. One, 25 years later, writes her name and number on her skin with a Sharpie when she leaves the house.
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25 years after surviving a school shooting, Brittney Thomas still writes her personal info on her body whenever she leaves home lest she is shot again and needs to be ID'd. On the deep trauma of survivors, w/ :
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Hollywood's relationship with China can be told in the two Top Guns.
1986: Rah-rah cinema celebrates Ray-Bans and American military might.
2019: Maverick's bomber jacket gets an overall because of China's power.
More on today's episode of The Journal:
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