Jon Gerberg

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Senior Video Journalist at The Washington Post

Investigative Producer @NBCNews

Articles

NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk's supercomputer in Memphis

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Jon Gerberg

Local regulators should immediately stop Elon Musk's supercomputer project from operating in South Memphis because it's out of compliance with environmental rules, the NAACP wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Shelby County officials. The civil rights group addressed the request to Dr. Michelle Taylor, director of the Shelby County Health Department and to the commissioners of Memphis Light Gas and Water.
NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk’s supercomputer in Memphis

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Bracey Harris |Jon Gerberg

NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk’s supercomputer in MemphisThe civil rights group alleges that the project’s pollution could be harmful to nearby residents. Local regulators should immediately stop Elon Musk’s supercomputer project from operating in South Memphis because it's out of compliance with environmental rules, the NAACP wrote in a letter sent …
A Tennessee neighborhood takes on Musk's xAI Colossus supercomputer in its fight for clean air

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Bracey Harris |Jon Gerberg |Stephanie Gosk |Lora Kolodny

May 15, 2025, 3:54 PM EDTMEMPHIS, Tennessee — Homes without indoor plumbing. Few streetlights. Virtually no public transportation. Half a century ago, residents of Boxtown, a neighborhood in South Memphis settled by formerly enslaved families, felt forgotten by the modern age. But no longer. They are now at the center of a battle with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who built what his company xAI has dubbed the world’s largest supercomputer, Colossus, roughly 2 miles away.
Up against Musk's Colossus supercomputer, a Memphis neighborhood fights for clean air

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Bracey Harris |Jon Gerberg |Stephanie Gosk

This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel back in time - up to 80 years. How to try itEver wondered what your street looked like in the 80s - or even the 30s? Now you can view just about anywhere and see it throughout time in seconds …
A South American waterway becomes a cocaine superhighway

Dec 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Samantha Schmidt |Jon Gerberg |Júlia Ledur |Sebastián López Brach

8 minIt was envisioned to be the Mississippi River of South America. The Paraguay-Paraná waterway runs about 2,100 miles, connects at least 150 ports in five countries and serves as the most important commercial river routeon the continent. In 1992, the five countries - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay - agreed to establish the two natural rivers, which meet at the Paraguay-Argentina border, as a transit route for goods, dredging them to allow commercial traffic.
Israel wants civilians to arm up, and gun permit applications are soaring

Dec 8, 2023 | stripes.com | Claire Parker |Jon Gerberg |Judith Sudilovsky |John Hudson

Off-duty Israeli reserve soldiers with their weapons in Tel Aviv in November. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) JERUSALEM — Since Hamas rampaged through Israeli communities on Oct.7, the government here has promoted a simple message: Guns save lives.
Israel wants civilians to arm up. Gun permit applications are soaring.

Dec 8, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Claire Parker |Jon Gerberg |Judith Sudilovsky |John Hudson

CommentSaveJERUSALEM — Since Hamas rampaged through Israeli communities on Oct.7, the government here has promoted a simple message: Guns save lives. Using rhetoric redolent of gun rights advocates in the United States, hard-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir has pushed to loosen firearm licensing requirements and create more civilian “standby teams” to harden communities against a repeat of the deadly surprise attack. “In the right hands, a weapon can save lives.
Hamas attack survivors recount horrors they saw during rampage in Israel

Oct 13, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Jon Gerberg |Miriam Berger |Whitney Shefte |Zoeann Murphy

This browser does not support the video element. Middle EastBy Zoeann Murphy, Jon Gerberg, Miriam Berger and Whitney Shefte | Oct 13, 2023At a crowded resort on the Dead Sea, the survivors of Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Kissufim keep reliving the nightmare. Their small farming collective of 300 people was a paradise, they remembered. But that’s all it is now — a memory. In the early hours of Saturday, their home became a scene of gun battles, kidnappings and slaughter.