Vacation Bookmark Purge
I am on vacation this week (hello from Italy and Albania!) so here are some stories that have been taking up space in my bookmarks for awhile. Enjoy!
Vox - Nearly half the world’s children have dangerous lead exposure levels.
VICE - Wyoming group trying to build a blockchain city gets scammed by hackers.
ProPublica - Why the US can’t stop syphilis from killing babies.
WSJ - NYU leaves families and students drowning in debt chasing its degrees.
High Country News - Half a million abandoned mines threaten public lands and the environment.
BBC - An elaborate con tricked dozens of people into working for a fake design agency.
Bloomberg - Ending monthly child tax credits pushed 3 million kids into poverty.
ProPublica - A profitable Michigan utility shut off electricity hundreds of thousands of times.
WSJ - China’s Tencent repeatedly violated anti-money laundering laws with its payment apps.
Bloomberg - Former Goldman exec Tim Leissner reveals the inner workings of the massive 1MDB fraud scandal.
Bloomberg - A timber company CEO thinks about how to reform flawed carbon offset programs.
BuzzFeed News - TikTok doctor influencers are getting into NFTs (and it’s a mess.)
VICE - Leaked Facebook documents reveal the company doesn’t know what it does with your data.
CNBC - What went wrong at CNN+ and why it was cancelled.
Bloomberg - JP Morgan sued after $272 million drained from Ray-Ban’s accounts.
Forbes - A deeper look into the Bitcoin Couple.
ProPublica - How Trump’s team built the Big Lie before and after the election.
THR - Dr Oz’s Senate run reveals how TV personalities make money.
Yahoo Finance - Google pays “raters” $10 an hour to verify search results while making billions off the ads.
Business Insider - The rise and fall of Clubhouse, the audio social network that briefly got hot during the pandmic.
ProPublica - Why rapid COVID-19 tests were so expensive and hard to find last year.
We’ll return to our regularly scheduled blogging next week.
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