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Charles Ornstein

@charlesornstein
18 posts
2025-11-06
The Trump administration's gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.  ⁦
2025-11-06 View on X
ProPublica

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M+ to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies

so poor all they have is money.  And Andreessen is the OG — Original Greed www.propublica.org/article/trum... Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : Given all the ways in which the ul...

2025-08-20
Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.  Yet a copy of Microsoft's security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company's China-based operations.  —  @reneedudley.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke
2025-08-20 View on X
ProPublica

Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems

The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.

Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.  Yet a copy of Microsoft's security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company's China-based operations.  —  @reneedudley.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke
2025-08-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Microsoft says it curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July, after probing the SharePoint breach

Microsoft Corp. has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its technology …

2025-06-06
Experts who reviewed the code a DOGE employee used to identify VA contracts to cut found numerous and troubling flaws, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to guide critical cuts in services.
2025-06-06 View on X
ProPublica

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.

2025-05-26
“The extraordinary blurring of government negotiations and private business dealings is rewriting the diplomatic playbook for some foreign countries looking to gain traction with the new Trump administration.” @wsj.com
2025-05-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals with countries like Pakistan

Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @charlesornstein . X: @chellaney and @husainhaqqani Bluesky: Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein : “The extraordinary blurring of government negotia...

2025-05-15
“I honestly didn't think we were capable of doing this,” one official told ProPublica. “That is bad on every level.” The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. https://www.propublica.org/...
2025-05-15 View on X
ProPublica

How the US conducted a monthslong campaign to push The Gambia and at least four other developing nations to license Starlink; diplomats call the events alarming

The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company in five developing nations. Bluesky: @karlbode.com , @emptywheel , @rimaanabtawi , and @malwareja...

2024-10-31
NEW: Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook, IG in Run-Up to Election https://www.propublica.org/... by @CraigSilverman @acookiecrumbles @propublica @TowCenter
2024-10-31 View on X
ProPublica

An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K+ ads to collect users' information

Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism  — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …

2023-02-25
RIP Politwoops. Twitter killed you. After a Decade of Tracking Politicians' Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More https://www.propublica.org/... by @derekwillis
2023-02-25 View on X
ProPublica

Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work

Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.

2022-12-26
Alameda Research's former CEO Caroline Ellison apologized for misconduct in the FTX collapse this week, telling a judge she knew her actions were illegal https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-26 View on X
Los Angeles Times

FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz

Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …

Alameda Research's former CEO Caroline Ellison apologized for misconduct in the FTX collapse this week, telling a judge she knew her actions were illegal https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-26 View on X
Reuters

Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX

bond packages only require around 10-15% of the total amount to be paid. Teflon Tom / @agrizzi8 : This case offers an insight into the world of crypto. Rather than accidental, the ...

2022-12-25
Alameda Research's former CEO Caroline Ellison apologized for misconduct in the FTX collapse this week, telling a judge she knew her actions were illegal https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-25 View on X
Reuters

Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul's Alameda Research …

2022-12-24
Alameda Research's former CEO Caroline Ellison apologized for misconduct in the FTX collapse this week, telling a judge she knew her actions were illegal https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-24 View on X
Reuters

Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul's Alameda Research …

2022-12-22
Alongside reputable publishers and popular games and online tools, we uncovered scores of previously unreported peddlers of pirated content, porn and fake audiences that take advantage of Google's lax oversight to rake in revenue. https://www.propublica.org/...
2022-12-22 View on X
ProPublica

Google's Display Network, which places ads on 2M+ websites, lets site owners stay anonymous while putting ads beside pirated content, porn, and disinformation

In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizer's CEO for fraud. Tweets: @craigsilverman , @craigsilverman , @t...

2022-07-20
Once again, Facebook shows it is not a friend of journalism. Facebook says its Facebook News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin would be put on the back burner https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
2022-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy

to pay Rupert's and the Germans' blackmail, actually—without paying for links. Danny Denhard / @dannydenhard : Most people forget Facebook is ahead of the curve when it comes to wh...

2021-07-08
The hottest new thing in banking has become a magnet for complaints... A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers' Money https://www.propublica.org/... by @CarsonKessler
2021-07-08 View on X
ProPublica

Some users have reported getting locked out of their accounts at Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, with 920 complaints filed to CFPB since April 15, 2020

2020-03-19
Social distancing has come to the NYSE. No more traders touching their faces, at least on camera. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-19 View on X
CNBC

NYSE will temporarily close its trading floor and move to all-electronic trading starting March 23, after two people tested positive for COVID-19

ALL THESE GUYS DO IS TOUCH THEIR FACES https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @desertdave2012 : This was 8 years ago (Hurricane Sandy) but they told us there was no way th...

2020-01-02
After our reporting... IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax https://www.propublica.org/...
2020-01-02 View on X
ProPublica

IRS amends its deal with tax prep software firms, now barred from hiding free products from search, and ends its ban on making its own online filing system

Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans.  —  The IRS announced significant changes Monday …

2020-01-01
After our reporting... IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax https://www.propublica.org/...
2020-01-01 View on X
ProPublica

IRS amends its deal with tax prep software firms, now barred from hiding free products from search, and ends its ban on making its own online filing system

Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans.  —  The IRS announced significant changes Monday …