As the year comes to an end, a threat with a review of some of the best work of @AP's Global Investigative team.
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Millions left
#Wuhan, China before#coronavirus quarantine. So where did they go?@AP’s@ekinetz, using location data from Baidu, the Chinese mapping, showed how the travel patterns out of Wuhan broadly track with the early spread of the virus.https://bit.ly/3nTFy37Show this thread -
Visually driven investigation into the forces that drive migrants from East Africa to travel through war-torn Yemen in hopes of reaching Saudi Arabia to find work.
@mokhbersahafi,@MaadAlzekri and@NMoftyhttps://bit.ly/3ibMwgAShow this thread -
Who got the early PPP loans? The SBA refused to say. By combing through thousands of regulatory filings, the
@AP was first to identify publicly traded companies who got millions in low-interest, taxpayer-backed loans.@ReeseDunklin and @lalanewsmanhttps://bit.ly/3ra5xWIShow this thread -
In May,
@AP obtained and published detailed@CDC guidance that the Trump Administration tied to bury that was designed to help businesses and schools to reopen safely after pandemic closures.@JHDearen w/@MikeStobbe.https://bit.ly/39f6LtcShow this thread -
In one of the weirdest stories of the year,
@APjoshgoodman revealed that a ragtag group of combatants led by a former Green Beret planned to invade Venezuela and capture President Nicolás Maduro. What could go wrong? Almost everything.https://bit.ly/2J1PYyIShow this thread -
A six-month
@AP@KHNews investigation revealed the nation’s public health system had been starved for resources for a decade, leaving it unprepared to deal with the#coronavirus.https://bit.ly/3oFboBWShow this thread -
@rplardner and@JHDearen shined a light on questionable contracts the Trump administration signed as part of its COVID-19 response. This one detailed an ill-fated multi-million study to see if the heartburn treatment Pepcid would fight the virus.https://bit.ly/2Kk647NShow this thread -
@ReeseDunklin and@MikeRezendes found that the Catholic Church was one of the largest recipients of PPP loans. Long before the pandemic, scores of dioceses faced increasing financial pressure because of a dramatic rise in recent clergy sex abuse claims. https://bit.ly/33dJxjfShow this thread -
The story of SEAL Team 7 being pulled from Iraq in 2019 has been previously reported — but documents obtained by
@JimLaPorta through FOIA and nearly a dozen interviews gave the first in-depth view into what led to that rare recall. w/@watson_juliehttps://bit.ly/36OYLw8Show this thread -
Palm oil is part of our lives from brushing our teeth to eating ice cream.
@AP interviewed 130 workers from eight countries who produce it, exposing labor and sexual abuses linked to Western banks and cosmetic brands https://bit.ly/2FNly1X@MargieMasonAP and@robinmcdowellShow this thread -
The
@AP published the first story detailing then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s ties to a religious community that subjugates women. People of Praise then tried to scrub all mention of Barrett from its web site. by@mbieseckhttps://bit.ly/3l6a4p7Show this thread -
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@AP investigation into how Peru bet on rapid antibody tests went dangerously off course. The tests cannot detect early COVID-19 infections, making it hard to quickly identify and isolate the sick.https://bit.ly/3lzW5s7Show this thread -
Why did the US run out of masks, gloves, and sanitizer as COVID-19 swept the country?
@AP,@FrontlinePBS, and@GlobalRepCentre investigated problems with the global medical supply chain.@JulietLinderman and@mendozamarthahttps://bit.ly/30ExXfCShow this thread -
President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters and offered intimate access to their social networks.
@garanceburkehttps://bit.ly/3nYzI0BShow this thread
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