Reporter at the @WSJ, via @businessinsider @seattletimes. katherine.long@wsj.com Send me tips on Signal from a non-work device: longka.38
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.
He just resigned.
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I sent these receipts, and dozens more, to @BillAckman earlier today, hopping they would help him do the research he said he had no time to do before blasting us here.
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We found that Oxman lifted at least 15 passages from Wikipedia in her dissertation, and that she borrowed from other scholars, encyclopedias, and technical documents, without any citation, in other academic papers.
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My wife, @NeriOxman, was just contacted by Business Insider claiming that they have identified other plagiarism in her work including 15 examples in her dissertation where she did not cite Wikipedia as a source.
Business Insider told us that they are publishing their story this evening. As a result, we don't have time to research their claims prior to publication.
It is unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family.
This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews.
We will begin with a review of the work of all current @MIT faculty members, President Kornbluth, other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism.
We will be using MIT's own plagiarism standards which can be found here:
integrity.mit.edu/handbook/w…
We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency.
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I believe I can say this since I briefly worked as a dishwasher
Dishwashers have the right to, nay perhaps should be, as neurotic, antisocial and weird as possible
You’re in a steamy windowless cave bombarded by masticated bits of flesh and veg for hours at a time
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A lot of folks have zeroed in on this sentence in our reporting: "Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions."
I'm going to share the text he sent, but first some backstory...
Last year we discovered a COVID relief fund meant for struggling arts venues had given $200M+ to wealthy musicians. But we didn't know HOW they spent it — until now. We got the literal receipts, with @TheNewsHam and @ByKLong reviewing thousands of pages of accounting docs
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My take on the scam article is that my friend was called by people running the same scam. (Callers said they were the DEA, said someone sent drugs into US under her name, stolen identity etc.)
She figured out it was a scam by googling “dea calls identity theft is it a scam?”
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Celebrity musicians got $200+ million in COVID relief grant money meant for struggling arts groups.
Here's how they spent it.
1. @chrisbrown spent $80,000 on his 33rd birthday party, including nude models ($2,100), an LED dance floor ($3,650), and bottle service
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This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is katherine.long@wsj.com and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
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These are our corporate parents. Paying investors nearly $850 million weeks before they lay off 8% of my colleagues.
This isn't an unprofitable industry. It's a pillaged industry.
thinking of this story as my friends again figure out how to cope with 13 weeks’ severance in one of the worst environments for media in a long, long time.
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Read our story. It's been a blast to report.
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Quick career update: Today was my last day at Business Insider. I'll be starting at the Wall Street Journal later this month. See you all at my new byline soon!
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Wikipedia is considered common knowledge and doesn’t require citations.
Community note
Wikipedia is not considered common knowledge, all text is copyrighted under a rather restrictive license GFDL and the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license and there are instructions on how to cite or else you are committing plagiarism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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I followed up. He said I'd reached the "wrong Dwayne." (Remember, we found this email address in exhibits to a lawsuit, showing his manager had been using it to send him business documents.)
I sent this exchange to Lil Wayne's publicists. They didn't respond.
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We spent weeks seeking comment on this story to make sure the musicians we named were aware of what we found. We sent multiple emails to publicists, managers, and attorneys. We called, texted, and left voicemails. We even mailed our list of questions to Chris Brown's house.
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My "we have editorial independence provisions in our union contract" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my "we have editorial independence provisions in our union contract" t-shirt
NEW: @InsiderUnion and @nyguild respond to Axel Springer’s investigation into Business Insider’s Neri Oxman stories: “We are disappointed to see Axel Springer publicly call the integrity of its journalists into question in response to attacks on our members’ coverage of Neri Oxman and Bill Ackman.”
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This story is based on thousands of documents. @TheNewsHam and I spent months reporting it out.
We found much more than I described here. Read it on @BusinessInsider. businessinsider.com/lil-wayn…
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In exhibits to a lawsuit, we'd found an email address for Lil Wayne that the star's former manager used to communicate with him. We sent our findings to that email address, in addition to Lil Wayne's publicists, but didn't hear back.
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A couple weeks ago, we were doing another round of phone calls, trying to confirm that the musicians we'd named were aware of our reporting.
I realized the email address we'd found for Lil Wayne was hooked up to iMessage. So I texted it.
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6. Later that year, an Alice in Chains guitar tech was diagnosed with cancer. "He has no health insurance and now cannot work to pay his bills," a GoFundMe page established for him said. The employee died soon after his diagnosis.
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My friend had just moved to the US from Europe, where data protections are stronger and scam calls are rare. (A dream!) She picks up the phone for everyone. She is not familiar with American government agencies. In many ways she was a perfect target.
And yet, google
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5. Grant recipients certified to the government that they needed taxpayer $$ to survive the pandemic. But the month before the three original members of @AliceInChains took a $6.3 million grant, they recorded $48 million in income from selling the copyrights on their catalog.
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7. Grant money was meant to support "middle-class people" and "young artists," the program's primary backer, @SenSchumer, told James Corden in 2020.
But the way the law was written allowed big-name musicians to use the program as a piggy bank to keep the party going.
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3. Lil Wayne (@liltunechi) used $88,000 in taxpayer funds to cover expenses for a concert he never performed. On NYE 2021, he was scheduled to perform at a concert in Coachella. Instead, Instagram posts suggest he partied that night at an LA club with the rapper 2 Chainz.
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4. Grant money was supposed to be used for certain "ordinary and necessary" business expenses. Lil Wayne spent at least $15,000 on flights and hotel rooms for women with an unclear connection to his business, including a porn actress and a waitress at a Hooters-style bar.
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2. Brown also spent $179,000 of his taxpayer-funded grant on a celebrity basketball tournament broadcast on YouTube, including a $20,000 payment to Indianapolis Colts tight end Mo Alie-Cox, who played on Brown's basketball team.
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if I see any of you crossing the @law360union picket line, you're dead to me
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I am one journalist, but if anyone wants to talk to me about Luigi Mangione, that is my phone number.
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Our reporting is here. It includes side-by-side comparisons showing the plagiarism, and is unpaywalled. We found found Oxman engaged in a pattern of plagiarism similar to Claudine Gay. @BillAckman wrote Gay's plagiarism made her unfit to teach at Harvard.
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I am dying to learn more about what is happening inside Planet Fitness.
- CEO fired, told not to contact employees
- "Fireball Fridays" and "Beers with Peers" had employees drinking by 8:30am per 2018 suit
- cofounder says the board is "corrupt"
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I sent these receipts, and dozens more, to @BillAckman earlier today, hopping they would help him do the research he said he had no time to do before blasting us here.
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I just donated to @law360union's strike fund. You should too.
gofund.me/284bb771
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For a little 🎀holiday treat🎄, I went way, way too deep into Sam Altman's watch collection.
What I learned: One of his timepieces was priced at $480,000.
w/ many thanks to @KeepTheTime 🙏
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Have you worked for Planet Fitness or with former CEO Chris Rondeau? I want to talk to you. Why was he fired? It's a billion-dollar question (the amt of shareholder value PF zapped by forcing Rondeau out).
I am dying to learn more about what is happening inside Planet Fitness.
- CEO fired, told not to contact employees
- "Fireball Fridays" and "Beers with Peers" had employees drinking by 8:30am per 2018 suit
- cofounder says the board is "corrupt"
businessinsider.com/planet-f…
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saying this from the depths of an article for which I am reaching out to 30+ agencies, companies, nonprofits for comment -- put a DAMN email on your FRICKIN website. won't even go so far as to ask for a press contact. any email. just any email.
otherwise I'll text your CEO 😈
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Silicon Valley bigwigs can't stop buying luxury properties in Hawaii: @HughLangley and I delve into Sam Altman's purchase of a $43M compound on land that locals describe as historically significant.
businessinsider.com/openai-c…
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I worked at a deli near Seattle in 2012. I remember listening to the presidential debates on the radio during shifts. kind of cathartic to be able to use the spray jet and slam racks of dishes around
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AI cited as a reason for layoffs
NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO @JimVandeHei just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business”
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Catch me and @TheNewsHam doing a Reddit AMA about our story in 40 minutes.
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Celebrity musicians got $200+ million in COVID relief grant money meant for struggling arts groups.
Here's how they spent it.
1. @chrisbrown spent $80,000 on his 33rd birthday party, including nude models ($2,100), an LED dance floor ($3,650), and bottle service
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When Jack Dorsey said he gave "a bunch of money" to an "anonymous Brazilian" behind a new social media protocol, my immediate question was: Could I find the guy?
I could. And it turns out he's an acolyte of a far-right, authoritarian conspiracy theorist.
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The @nyguild is raising hell these days
‘WE HAVE LOST FAITH’: (1 of 4) Today we sent @Mike_Federle and @RandallLane a letter informing them that our members overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in their leadership. Read more here from our letter.
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if it's "forgotten" that's partially because of our country's failure to make workplace musculoskeletal disorders like carpal tunnel an injury that OSHA can investigate
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Free tip for New York residents. Here's how to check whether the charismatic acquaintance approaching you with an investment opportunity has been sued by his previous business partners. 🧵
Awhile back, I heard about a network of quietly embarrassed people, all claiming they were hustled by the same downtown nightlife fixture, who happens to be the managing partner in Superiority Burger. Months later, here's what I found.
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“From the timing of today’s announcement — not even a month after our layoff moratorium expired — it’s clear that management has been eager to lay more of us off,” said Emma LeGault, unit chair for Insider Union.
Our statement on the layoffs announced at Business Insider today: nyguild.org/post/statement-f…
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pretty good policy
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Not the FBI responding to my FOIAs at 4:30pm on a Friday and saying, "These documents will only be available for 48 hours, tee hee 😇 😇"
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"JD vance fucked a couch" is actually literature and deserves a close textual analysis,,,,
Over the weekend, @ByKLong talked to the anon poster whose joke post started the whole "JD Vance fucked a couch" media cycle (most recently seen on primetime Fox News!). His influences: Borges, John Fowles, and Werner Herzog
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NASA spent $5M and three months reviewing SpaceX's commitment to a drug-free workplace, among other safety measures, after Elon Musk was filmed smoking a spliff in 2018.
We finally got the final report.
Unfortunately, it's heavily redacted.
businessinsider.com/nasa-elo…
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Reprising my role as real estate reporter to bring Seattle this news: Jeff Bezos hasn’t lived where we thought he lives for YEARS
Fun real estate scoop from @MadelinePBerg and @ByKLong done with some impressive🕵️♀️sleuthing skills: Jeff Bezos is leaving a $190M real estate empire behind in Seattle, including 5 previously unreported homes: businessinsider.com/jeff-bez…
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New: The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island.
wsj.com/world/greenland-spyi…
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Neighbors reveal what it's like to live next to Jeff Bezos
In which I doorknock another triple-digit billionaire: Steve Ballmer
w/ @MadelinePBerg
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Meghan is so polite. I just filter all unwanted PR straight to the trash. (Companies, if you’re wondering why your PR doesn’t get results, this may be why.)
PR folks: when I politely email "please remove me from your mailing list," it's not an invitation to argue with me about how great your idea/company is.
This has happened twice in a week! Don't do this!
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