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1/ Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. gov't shelters, Shiloh Treatment Center outside of Houston, according to court documents and interviews.
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Our new investigation in @TheAtlantic:
We obtained Amazon’s internal injury records for 23 fulfillment centers.
They show that the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was extreme – more than double the national average in 2018. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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🧵 NEW: D.C. Metropolitan Police Department files show that the department tried to fire 24 officers for criminal misconduct from 2009 to 2019.
In all but three of those cases, a powerful tribunal of three high-ranking officers overruled the terminations. revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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1/ NEW INVESTIGATION: Hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the U.S. were members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on @Facebook. revealnews.org/article/insid…
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Rep. @tedlieu says he is "deeply disturbed" that the FBI is dismantling a special unit that investigates war crimes and hunts down war criminals. revealnews.org/blog/congress…
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7/ We asked expert forensic psychiatrist Mark. J. Mills to assess the 420 pages of children’s medical records.
He was alarmed. "That's like the old Soviet Union used to do."
See his full comments:
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1/ NEW INVESTIGATION: Over the course of three weeks, a major U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with no kitchen and only a few toilets. revealnews.org/article/defen…
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2/ Children report being held down and injected.
The lawsuit alleges that children were told they would not be released or see their parents unless they took medication and that they only were receiving vitamins.
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EXCLUSIVE: The psychiatrist who's been prescribing psychotropic medications to immigrant kids at a federally funded residential treatment center has practiced without board certification to treat children and adolescents for nearly a decade, per records: revealnews.org/blog/exclusiv…
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3/ Parents and the children themselves told attorneys the drugs rendered them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep constantly, according to affidavits filed April 23 in U.S. District Court in California.
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8/ One child was prescribed 10 different shots and pills:
* Antipsychotic drugs Latuda, Geodon and Olanzapine.
* Parkinson’s medication Benztropin.
* Seizure medications Clonazepam and Divalproex.
* Antidepressant Duloxetine.
* Cognition enhancer Guanfacine.
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4/ A child described trying to open a window and being hurled against a door by a Shiloh supervisor, who then choked her until she fainted.
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2/ Videos shot by an alarmed neighbor show the children, dressed in sweatsuits, being led into the 3,200-square-foot office building in early June.
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6/ Earlier this year, WH Chief of Staff John Kelly promised: “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care or whatever.”
This building is an example of that “whatever.” It's not listed among shelters operating through ORR. Or on AZ's childcare licensing website.
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5/ “The supervisor told me I was going to get a medication injection to calm me down,” the girl said. “Two staff grabbed me, and the doctor gave me the injection despite my objection and left me there on the bed.”
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6/ Another child recounted being made to take pills in the morning, at noon and night.
The child said “the staff told me that some of the pills are vitamins because they think I need to gain weight. The vitamins changed about two times, and each time I feel different.”
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Hi there, @facebook. This is not political content. This is journalistic content that deals with policy. There's a difference.
Didn't you go over this with @ProPublica recently? propublica.org/article/faceb…
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9/ We’re staying on this story.
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SCOOP: The federal government is relying on secret shelters to hold unaccompanied minors, in possible violation of the long-standing rules for the care of immigrant children. revealnews.org/article/us-go…
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A worker was crushed by a forklift at an Amazon warehouse in Indiana.
One state investigator says he was pressured by @GovHolcomb to make the case go away because the state wanted to win Amazon’s HQ2 sweepstakes.
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4/ Neighbors say they never saw the children taken outside to play. They watched as palettes of water and boxes of food were brought in.
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3/ We’re not sure if these children were separated from their parents by the zero-tolerance policy. But their young age indicates they could have been.
And this happened while the policy was in effect.
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5/ Dozens of kids were removed from the building two weeks ago in vans. That happened June 22, two days after Donald Trump rescinded the family separation policy.
Since then, neighbors say they’ve seen more water coming in.
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These officers amassed records for domestic violence, DUIs, indecent exposure, sexual solicitation, stalking and more.
In several instances, they fled the scenes of their crimes. revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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8/ The lease says the building is not allowed to be used for sleeping or cooking and can only be used for “general business office purposes.”
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15/ We’re going to keep digging. If you want to learn more about this facility and others like it, consider subscribing to our newsletter. revealnews.org/newsletter.
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7/ The building was leased in March by MVM Inc., a Virginia-based defense contractor that has received contracts worth up to $248 million to transport immigrant children since 2014, records show.
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12/ The Arizona Health Department told us the address isn’t licensed as a daycare. Such a license would require safeguards including qualified staff, age appropriate toys and outdoor play areas.
This is what the perimeter of the building looks like:
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"Every single child that I interviewed told me they were still being forcibly medicated."
The government is violating a federal judge’s order to stop medicating immigrant kids at a troubled Texas shelter without proper consent, according to the children's attorneys.
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1/ NEW: The warning flags were waving blood red.
Three children had died after being physically restrained at rural Texas shelters run by the same man, Clay Dean Hill.
Yet the U.S. gov’t in 2009 gave him a lucrative new business: immigrant children. revealnews.org/article/feder…
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16/ Also please send tips about family separation, shelters housing immigrant children or other issues related to immigration to our team: border@revealnews.org
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😂😂
Orwell was an acclaimed reporter who investigated how unfettered industrial pressures hurt workers and destroyed communities.
He ventured into coal mines and interviewed people whose work was *literally* killing them.
Yeah, “Reveal” was carefully constructed propaganda with a name that wd make Orwell proud. Workplace injury rate of our factory when it was UAW w Toyota/GM was twice as high as today’s non-union.
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1/ NEW: We told law enforcement agencies across the country that their officers were members of brazenly Islamophobic groups on @Facebook.
So far, not a *single* department has said it disciplined an officer in response. revealnews.org/article/ameri…
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11/ One neighbor asked a worker what kind of business the employees were conducting. The business of transportation, they told her.
“Transporting what?” she asked.
“Humans,” the worker replied.
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10/ Reporter @aurabogado saw indications that children were held in the building for long periods: an inflatable mattress, a box marked “baby shampoo”, a medication schedule and other items.
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9/ We asked MVM if the building was intended to house children. They told us it’s “not a shelter or a childcare facility … it’s a temporary holding place.”
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Host @Al_Letson intervened as demonstrators attempted to beat a man at today's #berkeleyprotests. revealnews.org/blog/reveal-h… #Berkeley
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Of the 24 criminal misconduct cases, the department believed that at least seven officers had committed domestic assault.
All of them stayed on the force, six as a result of the panel's decision. revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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13/ The MVM spokesperson would not answer most of our questions – including whether the Phoenix office building should be licensed as a childcare center and how many other facilities like it the company operates to detain children nationwide.
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In a groundbreaking investigation, Reveal uncovers an alarming pattern: people who report a sexual assault to police end up facing criminal charges when the police don’t believe them.
Our first-of-its-kind investigation unveils the shocking findings. 🧵
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2/ These cops have worked at every level of American law enforcement, from tiny, rural sheriff’s departments to the largest agencies in the country, such as @Chicago_Police and @NYPDNews.
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14/ The spokesperson could not say how long the children were kept at the office building.
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Another officer, Jonathan Goodman, allegedly hit two women at a restaurant in 2010.
When one of them said she was calling the cops, he pulled out his badge and replied, “Bitch, I am the police,” according to the files. revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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In addition to blocking terminations, the records show that the Adverse Action Panel, which included the current police chief Robert J. Contee, issued much lighter punishment — an average of a 29-day suspension without pay. bit.ly/reveal-dcpolice
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3/ They work in jails and schools and airports, on boats and trains, and in patrol cars.
And they read and contributed to groups like “White Lives Matter,” and “DEATH TO ISLAM UNDERCOVER.”
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1/ NEW INVESTIGATION: Judges across the country are ordering defendants into recovery centers that are little more than work camps for private industry. revealnews.org/article/they-…
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4/ U.S. law enforcement officers have long been associated with or suspected of being members of extremist groups. Some recent examples, via @AP, @NBCNews and @TheIntercept:
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1/ BIG NEWS: We are thrilled to announce that we’ve hired @mthomps as our new editor-in-chief.
Details: revealnews.org/press/matt-th…
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1/ So before yesterday's investigation came out, @tesla released a statement accusing us of being an “extremist organization” who’s “working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign.”
A LOT to unpack right there. So let’s do it.
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Personnel files show that an internal investigation concluded that Officer Steven Ferris was arrested for simple assault in 2012 after Internal Affairs reported he confessed that he punched his wife so hard that he fractured a bone around her eye socket. revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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It's not just #StandingRock. Indigenous communities are fighting to preserve their land across the U.S. ow.ly/E3sb30bUuCo
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5/ Our investigation, for the first time, shows how officers in agencies across the country have *actively joined* closed hate groups, participating in the spread of extremism on @Facebook.
Here are a few examples of what this looks like:
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We dropped big news today: We are joining forces with @MotherJones, merging to create a stronger and more resilient news organization. Learn more about it here. revealnews.org/cir-reveal-an…
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6/ One guard at the Angola prison in Louisiana, Geoffery Crosby, is a member of 56 extremist groups, including 45 Confederate groups, and one called “BAN THE NAACP.”
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Trump's likely pick to lead the 2020 Census has been called out for involvement in designing “among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a federal court.” @MotherJones: motherjones.com/politics/201…
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🎉 🎉 Huge congratulations to the Reveal staff whose investigation of Amazon's labor practices was just named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize! Reporting by @willCIR showed the "human toll of robotics technology at Amazon warehouses." revealnews.org/article/behin…
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Twenty-one officers remain with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department today, patrolling the District in possession of MPD-issued firearms and authorized to use deadly force.
Read the full story by @dmehro, @jennygathright and @maustermuhle: revealnews.org/article/dc-po…
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That'd be our host, @Al_Letson.
Tremendous admiration for the guy who calmly jumps in to stop it. nitter.app/shane_bauer/status/901…
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1/ More than a year ago, we asked D.C. police for bodycam footage of #Pizzagate shooter Edgar Maddison Welch’s arrest.
We finally have that never-before-seen footage.
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7/ At least six active and retired police officers, from Maryland, Texas, Missouri, New York, Arizona and California, were members of another group called “Anti-SJW Pinochet’s Helicopter Pilot Academy,” until it disappeared from Facebook earlier this month.
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Neither Contee, the police chief, nor the department would comment on Reveal and WAMU/DCist’s findings. We attempted to reach all of the officers named in this story for comment. Only one responded. bit.ly/reveal-dcpolice
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17/ This is the first installment of an ongoing series on this issue. Stay tuned for the next installment soon.
And for all of our latest investigations, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter: revealnews.org/newsletter
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13/ Take Will Weisenberger, a member of a closed group called “White Lives Matter.”
He’s also currently a deputy at the Madison County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi.
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1/ NEW: We’ve put together the most detailed picture yet of Silicon Valley diversity.
And we found that while racial and gender disparities are grave, many companies haven't been held back by conventional excuses. revealnews.org/article/heres…
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12/ However, we found public documents that showed some of the officers we identified via Facebook had also been involved in real-life instances of alleged racism or other misconduct.
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9/ We provided @NYPDNews with posts from Officer Randy Paulsaint, a member of 13 groups committed to the anti-feminist Men Going Their Own Way movement.
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.@SenWarren just fired off letters accusing regulators of rolling back anti-discrimination protections for people of color in the face of modern-day redlining. revealnews.org/blog/warren-w…
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16/ More than 50 departments launched internal investigations after being presented with our findings, in some cases saying they would examine officers’ past conduct to see if their online activity mirrored their policing in real life. And some have taken action.
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8/ The group’s name showcases the wordplay central to the white supremacists’ rebranding as the “alt-right.”
It refers to the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who had his political opponents thrown out of helicopters into the Pacific Ocean.
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14/ The Abbeville Police Department in Georgia hasn’t responded to multiple phone calls and emails about one of its officers, Joel Quinn, frequently featuring conspiracy theories and anti-Islam posts on his personal Facebook wall.
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In 2008, a small-time scam artist ended up with a $10 million Beverly Hills mansion.
Weeks later, he transferred it to Donald Trump. The price: $0.
People involved in the deal say it was all a mistake. Real estate experts say it doesn’t make sense. revealnews.org/article/a-sma…
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Rep. Pete Olson, a Texas Republican, today called on Shiloh to be closed in light of the drugging allegations.
"Enough is enough."
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11/ Police disciplinary records are secret in most states, making it difficult to
draw a connection between Facebook extremism and offline policing.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers.
And it’s enabling anti-abortion organizations to target people online. That’s a violation of its own policies and promises.
with @TheMarkup: revealnews.org/article/faceb…
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10/ The groups contain memes depicting women as evil, greedy and jealous. In one, someone posted a meme about a woman asking for a Christmas present. In the comments, Paulsaint inserted a gif of a man kicking a woman in the head.
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1/ NEW INVESTIGATION: We obtained a cache of @Amazon’s confidential documents.
They reveal how company leaders have profoundly deceived lawmakers, the public and the press about the growing crisis of worker injuries inside its warehouses.
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ICYMI: .@SenWarren has called on the Pentagon and the nation’s workplace safety regulator to tighten oversight to prevent companies from winning lucrative contracts if they have put workers in harm’s way. revealnews.org/blog/pentagon…
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NEW: Citing our reporting, @BernieSanders and @IlhanMN are calling on the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to provide injury records for all Amazon facilities across the U.S. revealnews.org/article/feder…
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🧵 Today in the Jan. 6 hearing, former AG Bill Barr’s testimony was shown. He made a big deal about the film “2000 Mules.”
We’ve investigated the people behind the film and found it enriches its insiders rather than actually rooting out any voter fraud.
Bill Barr laughs uproariously about the supposed evidence of election fraud "2000 Mules" — and explains why it's bunk.
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A 10-year-old boy we're calling José was sent to a residential medical treatment center in Texas. Alone.
He told @aurabogado he was physically assaulted there multiple times. He describes the facilities' "school" and "hospital" as simply trailers.
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Hey did you know that America’s cities are being bought up, bit by bit, by anonymous shell companies using piles of cash?
Did you know nearly 3 million U.S. homes and 13 million apartment units are owned by LLC, LLP, LP or shell companies?
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Got a tip? Here's how to leak it to us securely: revealnews.org/how-to-leak-t…
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Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine, told us that Dr. Javier Ruíz-Nazario’s lack of certification says something about Shiloh.
“Highly reputable facilities require board certification, less reputable don’t require it,” Lee said.
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He is the doctor at Shiloh Treatment Center.
There, immigrant children have reported being held down and injected with powerful psychotropic drugs against their will, according to documents and interviews.
We broke the Shiloh story last week:
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Bodycam footage obtained by @reveal captures the tasering of a migrant child at a shelter. (cw: violence)
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The Federal Reserve’s decision to bail out commercial real estate sent Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital stock soaring 60%. That’s the same Tom Barrack who chaired Trump’s inauguration. revealnews.org/article/ill-b…
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SCOOP:
"In one of the unsealed documents, two @Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child, who they refer to as a “whale” – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders." revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-…
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The government is violating a federal judge’s order to stop drugging immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter without proper consent, according to new court filings from lawyers for the kids.
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Because transparency matters on Valentine's Day ...
Please complete the redacted rhyme, but make it about journalism. ❤️❤️
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13/ Diversity in tech isn’t just some feel-good PC thing. These companies are designing what the future looks like, controlling how we communicate or even influencing how we vote.
A lack of diversity means a lack of crucial voices in those decisions. And critical blind spots.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa served as Sri Lanka’s defense secretary during its civil war. He is accused of ordering torture, murder and mass atrocities.
He was also a U.S. citizen, but the U.S. government never pursued him for human rights abuses. On Reveal, we explore why.
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1/ Leaked chats from the #Charlottesville organizers show a group trying to control bad impulses for good publicity. revealnews.org/article/in-ch…
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14/ We’re so extreme that we were just named a Pulitzer finalist yesterday. poynter.org/news/here-are-wi…
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1/ Georgia Secretary of State @BrianKempGA touted the security of his state’s elections – and turned down federal cybersecurity help.
At the same time, his system was being breached. And he didn't even know it. revealnews.org/episodes/who-…
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2/ This is the third installment in our ongoing series investigating connections between police and extremist groups on @facebook.
Part I: revealnews.org/article/insid…
Part 2: revealnews.org/article/the-a…
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.@facebook won't let us run an ad for our latest investigation.
... An investigation showing that national park officials scrubbed mentions of climate change from a key planning document. Officials feared it may "raise eyebrows" within the Trump admin.
[chef kissing fingers]
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