Steve Stecklow
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Global investigative reporter @Reuters Previously worked at Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer. Fishes with flies.
Oakland, CA
Joined April 2009
RT @specialreports: Meta’s AI guidelines have let its chatbots make up things and engage in ‘sensual’ banter with children. A cognitively i….
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RT @JeffHorwitz: Per Meta's internal Content Risk Standards, this was an acceptable prompt for the bot to react romantically to:. "'What do….
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An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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RT @JeffHorwitz: "It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its in….
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An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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Quite a debut @Reuters by @JeffHorwitz: A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. via @SpecialReports.
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Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.
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RT @yjtorbati: My former colleagues at Reuters and I investigated the entity mentioned here in 2013, and estimated its holdings at $95 bill….
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Reuters investigates Setad, the $95 billion economic empire behind Iran's Supreme Leader.
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RT @ReutersPR: Reuters wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting .
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Reuters wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
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RT @ReutersPR: Reuters wins #Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for ‘Fentanyl Express.’ Read the full series here: .
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Reuters reveals how the Chinese fentanyl chemicals fueling America’s deadly opioid crisis are cheap and easy to get – and why authorities are failing to stop them.
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As Tesla tanks, Musk’s hand-picked board chair is doing just fine -
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Elon Musk’s EV company is struggling as he plunges into politics. Robyn Denholm, the Australian chair of Tesla, is thriving after cashing in half a billion dollars of the stock. Investors are...
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Continuing fallout from our 2021 @Reuters.com probe of Amazon in India: India court orders Amazon to pay $39 million in damages in Beverly Hills Polo Club case -
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An Indian court has ordered an Amazon unit to pay $39 million in damages for infringing the "Beverly Hills Polo Club" trademark after garments with identical branding were sold on Amazon's India...
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RT @adityakalra: LANDMARK RULING AGAINST AMAZON: Indian court orders Amazon to pay $39 million (339 crore rupees) in damages for infringing….
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RT @poppymcp: Along the many aid programs forced to close across the world because of the U.S freeze, according to a new survey: life savin….
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Aid groups across the world have closed operations, laid off staff and halted life-saving work, including with malnourished children, because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign...
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