Jeff Horwitz
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
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For those of you keeping score at home, the actual cut to the Post newsroom was 45%, not the widely reported one third. Remaining journalists are a bit over 400, down from around 1100 four years ago and 580 when Bezos bought the place.
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
For those of you keeping score at home, the actual cut to the Post newsroom was 45%, not the widely reported one third. Remaining journalists are a bit over 400, down from around 1100 four years ago and 580 when Bezos bought the place.
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Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
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Uber Eats asking if you need a loan to pay for this burrito? 😭
February 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Uber Eats asking if you need a loan to pay for this burrito? 😭
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
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NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
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He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I always think the goal of reporting is to produce work tied as closely as possible to primary sources.
I don’t understand why so many folks in my line of work seem to prefer reporting on why official bodies say.
I don’t understand why so many folks in my line of work seem to prefer reporting on why official bodies say.
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I always think the goal of reporting is to produce work tied as closely as possible to primary sources.
I don’t understand why so many folks in my line of work seem to prefer reporting on why official bodies say.
I don’t understand why so many folks in my line of work seem to prefer reporting on why official bodies say.
Trying to do some cooking today and the sheer proliferation of sham websites using AI-generated copy to come up with crappier versions of existing recipes is just crazy.
January 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Trying to do some cooking today and the sheer proliferation of sham websites using AI-generated copy to come up with crappier versions of existing recipes is just crazy.
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...
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December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Sometimes I regret not going into maritime law. Everything about the below seems like a party.
December 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Sometimes I regret not going into maritime law. Everything about the below seems like a party.
It's been a long time since I covered straight finance, but to see analysts -- and Bloomberg -- questioning the reliability of US inflation and labor data like this is remarkable.
Strange(r) times ahead, I guess.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Strange(r) times ahead, I guess.
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CPI Report With Shutdown Voids Raises Doubts About US Inflation Data
After long-awaited government data showed underlying US inflation cooled to a four-year low in November, economists agreed on at least this much: something was off.
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's been a long time since I covered straight finance, but to see analysts -- and Bloomberg -- questioning the reliability of US inflation and labor data like this is remarkable.
Strange(r) times ahead, I guess.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Strange(r) times ahead, I guess.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
The frequency with which I see prominent ads for Instagram Teen Accounts makes me think that they're currently providing a non-negligible subsidy to to a lot of publications.
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The frequency with which I see prominent ads for Instagram Teen Accounts makes me think that they're currently providing a non-negligible subsidy to to a lot of publications.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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AI can be hilarious. Here's Google giving two contradictory answers to the exact same travel-related question. (Accidentally tested within 30 seconds by my wife and me on separate computers.)
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
AI can be hilarious. Here's Google giving two contradictory answers to the exact same travel-related question. (Accidentally tested within 30 seconds by my wife and me on separate computers.)
The value provided by having the rough geographic location data of X users available to see is a reminder how this feature isn’t standard elsewhere. (Including here).
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The value provided by having the rough geographic location data of X users available to see is a reminder how this feature isn’t standard elsewhere. (Including here).
I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
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jmail.world
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AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
Mystery Fuels Unease in Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain?
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November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I knew doing scam research would put me into the "dumbest guy alive" digital ad targeting category, but nonexistent Milwaukee Brand cyberpunk staplers?
Holy hell I don't think I was ready for the ad-based internet to get even worse.
Holy hell I don't think I was ready for the ad-based internet to get even worse.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I knew doing scam research would put me into the "dumbest guy alive" digital ad targeting category, but nonexistent Milwaukee Brand cyberpunk staplers?
Holy hell I don't think I was ready for the ad-based internet to get even worse.
Holy hell I don't think I was ready for the ad-based internet to get even worse.