If you're interested in how tech companies failed to stop the rise in online child exploitation, here is a thread from our four-part series from 2019. (The other articles are linked from this piece.)

This week, @MissingKids, the center that receives reports of online child exploitation, held a roundtable with leading tech platforms about combating this illegal imagery. For the first time in the event’s decade-long history, Twitter reps didn’t attend.

Last month, Elon Musk tweeted that removing child exploitation was 'priority #1' at Twitter, despite reports that many of the key employees responsible for policing this content are no longer at the company after layoffs and resignations.

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Following our investigation of a suicide website linked to a growing number of deaths of young people, lawmakers seek to make online suicide assistance a federal crime. Rep. Trahan: “As a mom,' the findings were “terrifying, and it motivated us to act.' nytimes.com/2022/11/02/tec…

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“The essential truth of every social network is that the product is content moderation, and everyone hates the people who decide how content moderation works.”

I haven't tweeted in 8 years but I'm so excited to work with the next generation of investigative reporters. Apply for the new Local Investigations Fellowship, which I'm leading for The New York Times. nytimes.com/localinvestiga…

helpful. i hadn’t realized quite how different the demographics were between my county and my confessional district.

We could use your insight into Klaxon as we think through what comes next for it. Can you take a minute to fill out our quick survey?

New today with @ddknyt: we analyzed the congressional districts of House members who objected to the 2020 election results and found they shared common characteristics in ways we didn’t know. nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/… 1/

Polarization, 'like a tumor on the body politic,' is growing in America.

To understand how, we analyzed millions of lines of text from legislators in the House.

We found that Republicans who fought the 2020 election results are at the forefront. 1/

nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/…

interesting that semafor lists the visual-data editor job as design and not editorial. job description reads like a graphics editor role, which most newsrooms i know consider an editorial position.

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congratulations to friend, mentor and iconic journalist Bill Keller on his new book “What’s Prison For?” it’s a deeply reported book probing the goal of incarceration in the U.S., a fundamental question that raises particularly thorny opinions.

globalreports.columbia.edu/books/whats-pr…

NEW: On the day the Capitol was attacked, 139 Republicans in the House voted to dispute the Electoral College count. This is how they got there.

w/@ddknyt & Mike McIntire

nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/…

“… thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed, The Times found.”

infuriating!

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