Autodesk continued to use a controversial sales strategy after promising investors it would stop and ignored internal warnings about the risks of doing so, according to previously unreported internal documents. trib.al/gZnuiEj

Israeli air strikes have blanketed Gaza in debris. On top of having killed 40,000 Palestinians, they've buried an estimated 20,000 Palestinians, two-fifths of whom are children, under rubble. The cleanup will be long and difficult. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-… (photo by Ahmad Salem)

I am so lucky to get to work with this crew of amazingly talented reporters and editors. So honored and humbled to see our work recognized!

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Congrats to M.A. Columbia Journ alum Davey Alba (MA Science '13), a member of the Bloomberg Technology/Bloomberg Equality reporting team that won Online News Association's 2024 Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Technology Reporting (Large) for uncovering bias in two leading AI systems awards.journalists.org/entries/uncove…

NEW: Meet Scot Seddon. He might be one of the most dangerous men in America. He runs American Patriots Three, one of the biggest militias. Josh Kaplan got inside it to ask: Where is the militia movement going post Jan 6? propublica.org/article/inside… Pic on the right? Also Seddon.

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Staggering piece of reportage, data viz & photography from a team at Bloomberg on the ruin that is Gaza. 42 million tonnes of rubble. As an historian specializing in *post-WW2 reconstruction* puts it: “Gaza is something never seen before in the history of urbanism.”

🧵Con men scammed an elderly widow out of her life savings. The big banks (Chase, Wells Fargo & more) watched it happen. We took a look at financial frauds exploding across the country, and what the banks are doing about it. Gift link: trib.al/J4U1yfy from Bloomberg

in which Elena Mejía made a simple sketch in illustrator and sent me to JS hell

🫡Wow, very cool to see two of Bloomberg Graphics stories as finalists for the Gerald Loeb Awards! Especially proud of our data investigation into generative AI bias with Dina Bass Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward.

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Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov, the founder and CEO of Xsolla, describes himself as a billionaire. Documents show how Xsolla’s revenues support his lifestyle. 🔗🎮: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

🚨New: Cecilia D'Anastasio dove inside exclusive financial documents from Xsolla and found that it's CEO leaned on company funds to support his LA lifestyle. I built some data viz to show where the money went ⬇️⬇️

Please enjoy the graphic from our months-long investigation into Xsolla. It's pretty interesting.

🚨NEW with Cecilia D'Anastasio: Xsolla’s CEO Spends Like a Billionaire on Back of Company Cash Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov, CEO of Xsolla, describes himself as a billionaire. We visualized exclusive data to show how Xsolla’s revenues support his lifestyle ⬇️ 🎁bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

🚨 With the U.S. presidential election fast approaching, X is struggling to tackle illegal content and disinformation. In a joint investigation with CNN, CIR has exposed a network of X accounts using stolen photos of fashion influencers. These images have been manipulated to

I continue to be disappointed by the poor accuracy rates of AI. Our latest Proof News investigation shows the leading AI models were incorrect about one-third of the time when confronted with known misinformation about the presidential candidates. 👇🏻

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