
Brandon Roberts
News Applications Developer at ProPublica
News Applications Consultant at Freelance
Investigative journalist. News Apps Developer @ProPublica Occasional AI/ML researcher. Using data+code to hold power to account. Signal: brandonrobertz.01
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propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky |Hannah Allam
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When an AI script written by a Department of Government Efficiency employee came across a contract for internet service, it flagged it as cancelable. Not because it was waste, fraud or abuse — the Department of Veterans Affairs needs internet connectivity after all — but because the model was given unclear and conflicting instructions.
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propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky |Hannah Allam
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them.
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2 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Robert Faturechi |Pratheek Rebala |Brandon Roberts |Mark Olalde
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.
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flipboard.com | Robert Faturechi |Pratheek Rebala |Brandon Roberts
NowCNN — The decidedly unsexy bond market is usually pretty quiet. But when they want to, bond investors can send a loud, clear message to Washington. They did just that Thursday. The 20-year bond auction conducted by the US Treasury on Wednesday afternoon was unusually weak: Demand for the bonds was …
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propublica.org | Robert Faturechi |Brandon Roberts |Mark Olalde |Tim Golden
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Two days before President Donald Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. The Feb.
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RT @charlesornstein: More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market https://t.co/hEIOlimrcx @RobertFat…

RT @jackfleonard: New: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stocks two days before Trump announced a plan for reciprocal tariffs in Feb…

RT @jackfleonard: BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi sold more than $1 million worth of Trump Media stock the day Trump announced bruisin…