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Have You Experienced Hate Speech on Facebook? We Want To Hear From You.
Help us investigate how Facebook’s censorship policies actually work.
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville
Leaked chat room conversations reveal expectations of violence — along with detailed planning and intelligence gathering on left-wing adversaries.
Why Houston Isn’t Ready for Harvey
Houston faces massive flooding from Harvey. Here’s where it’s flooded in the past.
ProPublica Is Seeking an Editor/Animator (Contract)
ProPublica is seeking a creative editor/animator to be part of our small TV and digital video team.
Legisladores de Florida revisarán la ley que persigue a trabajadores lesionados indocumentados
Citando una investigación de NPR y ProPublica, una poderosa legisladora de Florida y un grupo nacional contra el fraude de seguros criticaron una ley usada por las aseguradoras para delatar a trabajadores indocumentados cuando se lesionan y evitar pagar compensación laboral.
The Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of Hillary Clinton’s Failed Bid for President
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes didn’t know their book would be called ‘Shattered,’ or that their extraordinary access would let them chronicle the mounting signs of a doomed campaign.
Failure to Set Cost of Carbon Hampers Trump’s Effort to Expand Use of Fossil Fuels
The Trump administration plans to sharply reduce the government’s estimate of how much each ton of carbon emissions harms the planet. It hasn’t done so yet, and that delay is slowing Trump’s effort to expand coal mining and gas pipelines.
ProPublica Is Hiring a Videographer/Producer (Contract)
ProPublica is seeking a creative videographer/producer to be part of our small TV and digital video team.
Florida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers
Citing an NPR and ProPublica investigation, a top Florida lawmaker and a national insurance fraud group criticized a law used by insurers to turn in injured undocumented workers and avoid paying workers’ comp benefits.
Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
Analysts tracking Russian influence operations find a feedback loop between Kremlin propaganda and far-right memes.
Is Anybody Home at HUD?
A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.
ProPublica Hires Claudia Milne as Senior Editor for Video
Milne will lead the nonprofit newsroom’s video efforts, creating a range of original stories, as well as overseeing partnerships with established production companies.
Free Food and Networking: Apply for Our Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA
You can now apply for ProPublica’s Diversity Mentorship breakfast, which will be held at the Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C., in October.
When Hate Meets Hoax
After a string of racist messages rocked a college in Minnesota, a fabricated note introduced a toxic sense of uncertainty that undermined attempts to address a serious social problem.
Se lesionaron en el trabajo. Y entonces fueron deportados.
Cómo las compañías de seguros usan las leyes de Florida para hacer que inmigrantes indocumentados sean arrestados y deportados cuando se lesionan en el trabajo — y lo que significa en la América de Trump.
Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
Most tech companies have policies against working with hate websites. Yet a ProPublica survey found that PayPal, Stripe, Newsmax and others help keep more than half of the most-visited extremist sites in business.
How We Investigated Technology Companies Supporting Hate Sites
We wrote software to find the external domains contacted by popular websites that have been identified as extremist by either the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Anti-Defamation League.
U.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments
Democrats from the state’s congressional delegation say articles by ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine and The Baltimore Sun raise “very serious and troubling concerns” about whether Kushner’s businesses comply with federal housing standards.
Spurned by Major Companies, The Daily Stormer Returns to the Web With Help From a Startup
The 20-year-old founder of BitMitigate said he had taken on the neo-Nazi website because he believes in free speech and because, “I thought it would really get my service out there.”
