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Brandon Roberts

Washington

News Applications Developer at ProPublica

News Applications Consultant at Freelance

News applications developer @ProPublica. Occasional AI/ML researcher. He/him 📧 [email protected]

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  • Jan 16, 2025 | projects.propublica.org | Sergio Hernandez |Brandon Roberts

    Read the latest education investigations from ProPublica. Do you have information about private schools? Send us a tip. A new ProPublica analysis shows the extent to which private schools segregate students. Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with white students.

  • Sep 25, 2024 | flipboard.com | A.C. Thompson |James Bandler |Brandon Roberts

    Neo-Nazi Telegram Users Panic Amid Crackdown and Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Online Extremist GroupAn analysis by ProPublica and FRONTLINE shows a surge in activity on Telegram channels aligned with the Terrorgram Collective, as allies tried to …

  • Aug 28, 2024 | propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Doug Bock Clark |Annie Waldman |Maya Miller

    ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When Congress held hearings in December 2023 to investigate allegations of campus antisemitism, they brought in the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. At the same time, ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer got surges of traffic to pages for all three universities.

  • Jul 2, 2024 | propublica.org | Ruth Talbot |Brandon Roberts |Vianna Davila |Alec MacGillis

    ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the wake of President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance, his opponents and most major media organizations have pointed out that he has done few interviews that give the public an opportunity to hear him speak without a script or teleprompters. Defend the facts. Support independent journalism by donating to ProPublica.

  • Jun 18, 2024 | projects.propublica.org | Ruth Talbot |Brandon Roberts

    About This DataWhat is a 527? A 527 is a nonprofit formed under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, which grants tax-exempt status to organizations whose primary purpose is attempting to influence the election of one or more people to public office at the national, state or local level. But contributions to these organizations are not considered tax-deductible, unlike gifts to charities. What organizations are in the 527 Explorer?

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Brandon Roberts
Brandon Roberts @bxroberts
15 Apr 25

Student journalists are stepping up big rn

The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson

Harvard-affiliated researchers have been receiving stop-work orders on contracts worth millions of dollars just one day after the Trump administration announced a $2.2 billion pause of federally-funded research. @avaniiiirai & @saketh_sundar report. https://t.co/8U60tje1Sj

Brandon Roberts
Brandon Roberts @bxroberts
7 Apr 25

RT @CREWcrew: The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates FOIA and the Administrative Procedures Act. Americans deserve to have t…

Brandon Roberts
Brandon Roberts @bxroberts
21 Mar 25

During a special lighting talk at #NICAR25, it was brought to our attention that some organizations on Nonprofit Explorer can only be surfaced by typing in the EIN 🫣 We just deployed a fix for this! All names are now searchable. Thx @TishaESPN https://t.co/BuhMlAd3ei https://t.co/Vx8bQ4wEBZ