FB knew human traffickers used its sites to sell people. It took limited action against them until Apple Inc. threatened to remove FB and IG from its app store w/
@newley
@JeffHorwitz
via
@WSJ
FB found a Mexican cartel using its sites to hire hitmen. But it didn't kick the CJNG off IG. Even after FB's findings, CJNG posted videos of shootings, and a photo of a trash bag full of hands
@newley
@JeffHorwitz
via
@WSJ
With the last days’ turmoil in Saudi Arabia, here’s the cover of the book that
@bradleyhope
and I are writing about MBS, to be published later this year.
My uncle Richard Brodsky died last night. He was indeed "a towering figure ... always willing to speak his mind and rail for change" in politics and family too -- lots of opinions, lots of railing and lots of love, always with the Brodsky edge. via
@lohud
I’ve known
@nxthompson
for years, but this is the first time I’ve had a byline in his mag. The latest excerpt from Blood and Oil, out today, with
@bradleyhope
David Sanford was a WSJ legend and wrote a story that made me proud of the institution where I worked for 15 years. He was also a great editor and the best kind of benevolent newsroom grouch. The rest of us grouches will miss him.
The International desk continues to expand our commitment to investigative journalism, welcoming Megha Rajagopalan (
@meghara
) and Justin Scheck (
@ScheckNYTimes
) to our international investigations team. Read more:
Facebook uses free internet access to boost user growth in poor countries. But many people end up with charges, a problem the company knows about. It “breaches our transparency principle,” according to internal documents. via
@WSJ
Businesses seeking an investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund can turn to a former reality-TV producer with close ties to its chief. w/
@bradleyhope
@summer_said
@RoryWSJ
Last month,
@summer_said
@bradleyhope
and I wrote about Hani Khoja, a McKinsey consultant who was imprisoned and beaten by Saudi authorities (and along the way lost his job as a McKinsey consultant). This morning, Saudi officials released Khoja.
This story with
@rob_barry
was my last for the WSJ (my name is in the fine print at the bottom, since I no longer work there). We spent days door knocking, sheep dodging and visiting the bronze Bee Gees statue on the Isle of Man
This is nuts
@bradleyhopeand
@jennystrasburg
reveal one of the world's most influential investors sabotaged rivals with tactics including trying "to lure one of them into a 'honey trap' of sexual blackmail" via
@WSJ
Scene from a Saudi majlis in 2017:
Servers filled most attendees’ porcelain cups with traditional cardamom-perfumed coffee, but Trump got his preferred beverage, Diet Coke, poured from an Arabian teapot.
latest from Blood and Oil with
@bradleyhope
@lhfang
I may regret joining in, but I, and plenty of WSJ colleagues, went to public school and worked at small local papers. My first newspaper job paid $7/hr; I lived in a van in the publisher's back yard. Next job didn't pay much more.
@emilybell
I’ve heard similar sentiments from big paper journalists. But I’ve never been more stressed out than when I was editor of the Mountain View Voice. One year I decided not to cover the annual parade. Bad idea
“There’s no such thing as a perfectly green company,” says stock indexer, so ESG funds are pouring money into an undersea miner, a garbage incinerator and an animal-waste processor.
I couldn't comprehend the market crash until i read this
@gunjanJS
and
@GZuckerman
story. Required reading for those who, like me, couldn't get why everyone freaked out and sold all their stock all at once (spoiler alert: that's not quite what happened)
With
@bradleyhope
@summer_said
we reported last week that Saudi officials knew of plans to hack Bezos’s phone. Here’s the back story on what was going on between the prince and the Amazon CEO
One of the world’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, and one of the most powerful princes, Mohammed bin Salman, have become archenemies, each accusing the other of betrayal after working cordially to try to establish an Amazon presence in Saudi Arabia
Ex-Amazon employees told us they spent years trying to keep unsafe magnetic toys off the site. After
@shaneshifflett
told Amazon he found such toys still for sale, Amazon reworded its policy to say such toys are allowed. w/
@AlexandraBerzon
@harmancipants
I have mixed feelings about editors. But misspelling the name of your editor in a post about how editors are horrible and you shouldn’t be edited doesn’t help the anti-editor side
In sept we reported that Erik Voorhees’s company, ShapeShift, was used to process funds linked to crime. now the SEC is probing his role at another company
Over the last few years I’ve written a lot about KSA’s challenges fostering innovation within an autocratic system. Hard to find a better example than this
@RoryWSJ
story
Seems like a good day to resurface this old story with
@charlesforelle
that gets into how Huawei hired member of the U.K. House of Lords to help build "a positive reputation." via
@WSJ
@EbonyReed
This is one of my favorite WSJ stories ever. The nut graf is one of its small pleasures - this isn’t a trend, it says, but read this anyway because it’s excellent.
He was a handful, and always loved a confrontation. He was also the most loyal and steadfast relative a person could have, especially in a family crisis.
The woman who thought she knew too much: Desperate to get her kids back, Neely Petrie-Blanchard joined a group of conspiracists. Now she's charged with murder
Resurfacing from last year: McKinsey hired Saudi officials' relatives including "at least two children" of the energy minister, finance minister's son and son of the CEO of government-controlled mining co. with
@bradleyhope
and
@summer_said
via
@WSJ
Twenty years ago, a new breed of energy companies promised deregulation of the electricity industry would cut consumers’ power bills. The opposite happened, a WSJ analysis found.
@RolfeWinkler
But Rolfe, you’ll spend the time smoking cigars and festooning your trailer hitch with new truck nutz, not doing loser childcare stuff, right?
@carolynryan
@WSJ
WSJ has owned the rodent and mustelid beats for many years. I wrote a story on beavers years ago and took a look in our archives and found volumes of other beaver stories.
So much good Brodsky material in this story. Bashing the yankees, "corrupt cookies" and the smartest man in the legislature according to colleagues and himself
Got questions about the "Facebook Files"? A member of the investigative team behind the series will be on an upcoming episode of WSJ's Tech News Briefing to answer them. Leave a VM at 314-635-0388.
Saudi Arabia has constructed a facility for extracting “yellowcake” from uranium ore, expanding its nuclear know-how and worrying the U.S. and its allies.
NEW: Bruce Orwall, a longtime WSJ editor, has been named head of enterprise,
@emmatuckerWSJ
just said in an email to the newsroom, responsible for building a capacity to produce enterprise stories "faster and more flexibly"
@JeffHorwitz
One example from FB India research: “Test user’s News Feed has become a near constant barrage of polarizing nationalist content, misinformation, and violence and gore,” researchers wrote.
@emilybell
Readers of small papers (in my experience) are more engaged. That’s good. It also means they’re more emboldened to complain, sometimes in person. No one walks up to me at my desk at the WSJ now and screams at me about last week’s planning commission story
@RMac18
Rago worked for the editorial page. On the news side we don’t do that. Also I think WSJ news side’s Theranos coverage pretty clearly has nothing in common with this.