Frank Matt
@fxmatt4.bsky.social
Documentaries and visual investigations @nbcnews.bsky.social
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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
August 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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...
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
@nbcnews.com's investigation discredits Rwanda's narrative of this conflict and lays bare their hidden invasion.
🧵 with links to watch & read
June 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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
@nbcnews.com's investigation discredits Rwanda's narrative of this conflict and lays bare their hidden invasion.
🧵 with links to watch & read
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!
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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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!
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!
March 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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!
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!
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...
FT reporting that the press release issued by Trevor Milton is genuine and he has been pardoned.
Nikola’s Trevor Milton pardoned by Donald Trump
Founder of electric and hydrogen-powered truckmaker was found guilty in 2022 of lying to investors
www.ft.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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...
Houthi and the No-SCIF
March 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Houthi and the No-SCIF
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Starlink - the satellite internet service owned and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX - has a growing footprint in the federal government... www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... Fri. evening scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social + me + Jonathan Allen @nbcnews.com
Elon Musk’s Starlink has a growing footprint in the federal government
The use of Starlink has been adopted by at least one additional federal agency since President Donald Trump began his second term, and it’s being considered by more.
www.nbcnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Starlink - the satellite internet service owned and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX - has a growing footprint in the federal government... www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... Fri. evening scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social + me + Jonathan Allen @nbcnews.com
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.
March 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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...
Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...
February 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...
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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...
“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
January 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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...
“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Someone was giving away the uplifting opposite of never-worn baby shoes on my block this morning
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Someone was giving away the uplifting opposite of never-worn baby shoes on my block this morning
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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
January 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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.
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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!
🧵👇
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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!
🧵👇
⚓️ 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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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
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
December 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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
Our latest investigation [gift link]: wapo.st/4gFoSrO
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.
December 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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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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
December 13, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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...
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EVAN GERSHKOVICH IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS — on the byline of a WSJ article.
So great to see Evan publishing stories again.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
So great to see Evan publishing stories again.
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 Stalin. era.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:22 AM
EVAN GERSHKOVICH IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS — on the byline of a WSJ article.
So great to see Evan publishing stories again.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
So great to see Evan publishing stories again.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January!
New year, new skills. Join us:
New year, new skills. Join us:
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
- 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
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January!
New year, new skills. Join us:
New year, new skills. Join us:
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This is a really fun and illuminating profile of Brian Krebs, the most badass cybersecurity journalist in the game. Great story by @bobmcmillan.bsky.social and well worth your time.
The hacker sent a message: “I really want to play you in chess.”
It was just another day for Brian Krebs, who works from a secret location to expose the dangerous world of cybercrime.
It was just another day for Brian Krebs, who works from a secret location to expose the dangerous world of cybercrime.
He Investigates the Internet’s Most Vicious Hackers—From a Secret Location
In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge.
on.wsj.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM
This is a really fun and illuminating profile of Brian Krebs, the most badass cybersecurity journalist in the game. Great story by @bobmcmillan.bsky.social and well worth your time.
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Napoleon, December 3, 1812
i've sobered up and the cold is getting to me so I may have to retreat from history
December 3, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Napoleon, December 3, 1812
I suppose I should celebrate joining a platform that doesn't throttle links by linking some recent work!
My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...
My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...
Zone of destruction
The Israeli military claims to have limited goals for its southern Lebanon invasion. But an NBC News investigation found widespread destruction in areas occupied by the IDF.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I suppose I should celebrate joining a platform that doesn't throttle links by linking some recent work!
My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...
My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...
About time! Grandma Millie's been living high on the hog.
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
About time! Grandma Millie's been living high on the hog.