Frank Matt
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Elon Musk's net worth is ~$414.9 billion according to various wealth trackers now. But this is still a meaningful consequence (for 1,000 reasons) for Tesla to have to pay a crash survivor & the bereft family of the other victim $242.5 million.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...
Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says
A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.
www.cnbc.com
fxmatt4.bsky.social
My wonderful colleagues @jeanleenbc.bsky.social, @tavleennbc.bsky.social, @marinscott.bsky.social and I scoured 3 years worth of leaked military documents and surveillance footage—and interviewed sources who spoke to us at great personal risk. We're very grateful to them for their courage.
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Rwanda has been accused by the UN and Western governments of supporting the M23 rebel movement and sending their own troops into eastern Congo.

In our short documentary, you can see for yourself the extent of Rwanda's covert war. Watch here: youtu.be/-do8Y7Gw7NM?...
Hidden Invasion: Inside Rwanda's Covert War in Eastern Congo
YouTube video by NBC News
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Rwanda has never admitted to taking part in the conflict in the DRC that since 2021 has killed thousands and displaced millions.

@nbcnews.com's investigation discredits Rwanda's narrative of this conflict and lays bare their hidden invasion.

🧵 with links to watch & read
NBC News Digital Docs
Hidden Invasion: Rwanda's covert war in eastern Congo
fxmatt4.bsky.social
An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Hi friends, help me boost?
Looking to talk to people who work in child vaccines (providers, schools, health depts, clinics, data folks or coalitions, etc.) who might have insight or experiences to share about how their work has been impacted the last couple of months. Don't reply just DM me please!
fxmatt4.bsky.social
If you want the backstory on Trevor Milton—a few years ago I helped produce a podcast series about his rise and fall with my old colleagues at WSJ and Jigsaw Productions. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Houthi and the No-SCIF
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New season of White Lotus needs some online tie-in content. HBO, please let me write fake Journal articles about Jason Isaac's financial fraud.
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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...
Whitehouse.gov captures from: 2008 Sept. 15; 2013 Mar. 21; 2017 Feb. 3; and 2021 Feb. 25
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.

“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
www.nbcnews.com
fxmatt4.bsky.social
Someone was giving away the uplifting opposite of never-worn baby shoes on my block this morning
Funeral visitor sign-in book, never used
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zachschonfeld.bsky.social
An incalculable loss. Madlib owned an estimated 16,000 records, full of rare groove and soul, filling up multiple rooms in his house. There are things lost in these fires that can never be rebuilt.
Madlib lost home, equipment, & "decades of music" in LA fires; fundraiser launched
Flying Lotus, DJ Premier, and others helped share the news.
www.brooklynvegan.com
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

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Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.
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evanhill.bsky.social
Israel is cutting a new corridor through northern Gaza, wiping Palestinian towns off the map, forcibly displacing nearly the whole population, and fortifying military positions in what many fear is a plan for long-term control.

Our latest investigation [gift link]: wapo.st/4gFoSrO
Israel is demolishing northern Gaza and fortifying military positions, imagery shows
Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military cuts a new corridor through Gaza.
wapo.st
fxmatt4.bsky.social
Went down a fun rabbit hole last night about how the French government spent the better part of 1993 freaking out about Jurassic Park—making it a big issue in trade talks, as well as trying and failing to prop up a French epic about coal miners to take on Jurassic Park at the domestic box office.
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dylanmp.bsky.social
Fantastic to see Evan Gershkovich's byline back in the WSJ, with a very illuminating article from this WSJ team on the elite Russian security service responsible for much of the intensifying repression of the last few years (including Evan's own arrest)! www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.
www.wsj.com
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janelytv.bsky.social
Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January!

New year, new skills. Join us:
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Join @craigsilverman.bsky.social & @janelytv.bsky.social and learn to 🔎:

- Verify and geolocate images/videos
- Conduct background checks
- Analyze digital footprints
- Use AI tools for data analysis
- And more!

🎁 Perfect for you or as a gift for a fellow journalist! https://bit.ly/4g2u88K