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We wanted to craft a perfect phishing scam. AI bots were happy to help Reuters and a Harvard researcher used AI to plot a simulated phishing scam and tested it on senior volunteers. It worked–showing how AI arms criminals for fraud

Reuters set out to craft the perfect phishing scam. Major AI chatbots were happy to help. - www.reuters.com/world/we-set...

Visual Investigations Editor, Reuters Reuters is seeking a creative editor with impeccable news judgment, spellbinding storytelling skills and a thirst and aptitude for innovation to produce engaging and ground-breaking visual investigati...

Great new job here at Reuters: Visual Investigations Editor.
London or NY preferred. Apply here:
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Great idea, Bill and Sewell!

Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

New: A 2nd DOGE staffer has amplified extremists online, including Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate

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How OnlyFans turned into an empire bent on redefining porn Reuters traces OnlyFans' journey from an obscure, porn-free site to an adults-only social media phenomenon turbocharged by erotic performers and influencers.

OnlyFans is among the world's most successful social media platforms – but a secretive one. Reuters traces its rise from an obscure, porn-free site to an adults-only phenomenon turbocharged by erotic performers and influencers.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn‘t ending the crisis The US death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities hand out overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Behind the good news, opioids remain rife - and users report harrowing effects from the antidote.

Why are fentanyl deaths declining? Maurice Tamman and Shannon Stapleton find answers in a beaten-down neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.
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The shadowy ‘brokers’ smuggling fentanyl chemicals for Mexican cartels Chemical brokers are the supply chiefs of the fentanyl trade, smuggling key ingredients from China to Mexico. Bribes, trickery and violence help them feed the pipeline.

New: Chemical brokers are the supply chiefs of the illicit fentanyl trade, funneling Chinese ingredients to Mexico's producers. Industry insiders tell @Reuters how they use bribery, tricks and violence to feed the pipeline.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

Exclusive: Power failed at SpaceX mission control before September spacewalk by NASA nominee A September power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, caused a loss of ground control for at least an hour during a mission that included the first private spacewalk in history, according to three people familiar with the problem.

New in Musk’s SpaceX: Power failed at SpaceX mission control before September spacewalk by Trump’s NASA nominee www.reuters.com/technology/s...

Myanmar junta intimidates aid groups in effort to hide hunger crisis Myanmar’s army has warned aid workers not to release data showing millions are hungry. Fearing retaliation, aid groups have held back publicizing their findings

Scoop: Myanmar's military has detained food-security researchers and warned aid workers not to release information revealing that millions are experiencing severe hunger. Fearing retaliation, aid organizations have suppressed their findings. via @reuters.com
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Exclusive: Fund manager Bessent scores double on Trump victory As a money manager, Scott Bessent's years of inconsistent performance have contributed to a nearly 90% decline in his hedge fund's assets. Now, with other business lines expanding, he has scored on perhaps his biggest bet yet: President-elect Donald Trump.

The new Treasury Secretary's hedge fund was a terrible performer.

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Trump camp says China is ‘attacking’ U.S. with fentanyl. A fight looms President Joe Biden‘s fentanyl diplomacy with China is under scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump’s team seeks a harder line to stop the flow of Chinese-made chemicals powering America’s epidemic.

Timely: how Trump’s team plans to turn up the heat on China over fentanyl. It’s not just tariffs. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation and torture OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn. Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.

"Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation, torment and sexual servitude" ... Here's our latest harrowing look inside the billion-dollar porn platform.
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Lori Hinnant named Reuters EMEA investigations editor | Reuters News Agency Reuters Global Enterprise Editor Mike Williams today shared the below note with staff, announcing the appointment of Lori Hinnant as EMEA investigations

Another big hire at Reuters: AP investigative journalist Lori Hinnant is joining us as EMEA investigations editor ... www.reutersagency.com/en/media-cen...

Exclusive: Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, five sources with knowledge of Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

The Kremlin signals what it wants. Via Reuters Moscow bureau chief Guy Faulconbridge. Exclusive: Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Reuters taps Sally Buzbee to be News Editor for US and Canada Sally Buzbee, most recently the executive editor of the Washington Post, will join Reuters as News Editor for the United States and Canada, overseeing the global news agency’s coverage of a second Donald Trump presidency, among other priorities, Reuters said on Tuesday.

Great news at Reuters: Sally Buzbee is joining us as News Editor for US and Canada bit.ly/3Od4Etb

In echo of Soviet era, Russians are informing on each other over Ukraine - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Exclusive: Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Scoop: Trump team plans to kill Biden’s EV tax credit. What does it mean for Elon?

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Reuters exposé of hack-for-hire world is back online after Indian court ruling Reuters found that Appin grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians and wealthy elites around the globe.

Reuters exposé of hack-for-hire world is back online after Indian court ruling

Definitely go read the investigation an Indian court censored for almost a year.

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Exclusive: Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.

Exclusive: Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say

The Musk Industrial Complex Reuters exposes grave harms to consumers, workers and laboratory animals across Elon Musk’s manufacturing empire, resulting in investigations by U.S. and European regulators and calls for action from U.S. lawmakers.

Here's Reuters' Pulitzer-winning look at Elon Musk's companies www.reuters.com/investigates...