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2025-04-13
@veritenewsnola 9/ But under Gov. Landry's tough-on-crime agenda, TIGER became the sole measure of parole eligibility last August. Legal scholars say the way risk tools calculate a person's odds of reoffending is part of why no other state exclusively uses them to bar individuals from parole.
2025-04-13 View on X
ProPublica

A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

@veritenewsnola 8/ Here's the thing: TIGER was never intended to be punitive. The creators said they developed the tool to help prison officials determine classes or counseling a prisoner might need to help *prevent* them from landing back behind bars. [image]
2025-04-13 View on X
ProPublica

A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

@veritenewsnola 10/ Because the algorithm measures factors where racial disparities already exist, it could disproportionately harm Black people, civil rights attorneys added. Already, Black people make up two-thirds of Louisiana's prisons, more than double their share of the state population. [image]
2025-04-13 View on X
ProPublica

A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
2025-04-13 View on X
ProPublica

A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

4/ From Aug. 1 — when the law took effect — to Dec. 13, 2024, at least 70 Louisiana prisoners' parole hearings were canceled just like that, ProPublica and @VeriteNewsNOLA found: https://www.propublica.org/...
2025-04-13 View on X
ProPublica

A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

2024-11-17
Some involved in the Microsoft offer likened it to a drug dealer luring in customers with free samples. “When it comes time for us to take the crack away, your end users will say, 'Don't take it away from me.' And you'll be forced to pay me.” https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-17 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

New: When the White House welcomed Microsoft's offer of $150 million in tech services, it helped the world's largest software provider tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out competitors. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-17 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

Microsoft's seemingly straightforward commitment to helping the U.S. government was, in fact, a calculated business maneuver designed to bring in billions in new revenue, box out competitors and tighten the company's grip on federal business. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-17 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

2024-11-16
Some involved in the Microsoft offer likened it to a drug dealer luring in customers with free samples. “When it comes time for us to take the crack away, your end users will say, 'Don't take it away from me.' And you'll be forced to pay me.” https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-16 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

Microsoft's seemingly straightforward commitment to helping the U.S. government was, in fact, a calculated business maneuver designed to bring in billions in new revenue, box out competitors and tighten the company's grip on federal business. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-16 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

New: When the White House welcomed Microsoft's offer of $150 million in tech services, it helped the world's largest software provider tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out competitors. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-11-16 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs

- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”

2024-10-31
The deceptive ads employ tactics that Meta has banned, including the undisclosed use of deepfake audio and video of national political figures and promoting misleading claims about government programs to bait people into sharing personal information. https://www.propublica.org/...
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 …

New: Despite Meta's stated commitment to crack down on harmful content, it failed to catch tens of thousands of ads that used false claims and deepfakes of political figures to collect users' sensitive personal data or bait them into monthly charges. https://www.propublica.org/...
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 …

2024-07-09
There have been no public examinations by the government of the Microsoft security issue exploited in SolarWinds, a devastating Russian cyberattack. No reports identified or interviewed the whistleblower who exposed problems inside Microsoft. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-07-09 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited

2024-07-08
There have been no public examinations by the government of the Microsoft security issue exploited in SolarWinds, a devastating Russian cyberattack. No reports identified or interviewed the whistleblower who exposed problems inside Microsoft. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-07-08 View on X
ProPublica

Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited

Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures  —  Investigating how the world's largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.

2024-06-13
New: Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others. https://www.propublica.org/...
2024-06-13 View on X
ProPublica

Ex-employee Andrew Harris says Microsoft for years dismissed his warnings of an Active Directory flaw that led to the 2021 SolarWinds hack; Harris left in 2020

Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation's most sensitive computer networks.

Microsoft has long downplayed its role in the 2020 “SolarWinds” attack — one of the largest cyberattacks in US history — but a new ProPublica investigation reveals that the tech giant ignored warnings that could have stemmed the damage... 🧵 [image]
2024-06-13 View on X
ProPublica

Ex-employee Andrew Harris says Microsoft for years dismissed his warnings of an Active Directory flaw that led to the 2021 SolarWinds hack; Harris left in 2020

Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation's most sensitive computer networks.

2023-09-09
A FTC judge ruled this week that TurboTax parent company Intuit deceived consumers with ads for “free” tax products for which many consumers were ineligible. The FTC began investigating TurboTax in response to ProPublica's ongoing TurboTax Trap series: https://www.propublica.org/...
2023-09-09 View on X
Bloomberg

An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software

- Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free  — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision

2023-03-27
By allowing anyone to report an Instagram account for violating the company's standards, Meta gives enormous leverage to people who are able to trick it into banning someone who relies on Instagram for income. https://www.propublica.org/...
2023-03-27 View on X
ProPublica

A look at OBNBrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' accounts, mainly on Instagram, and extorting for “reactivation”

https://www.propublica.org/... … @craigsilverman@mastodon.social : OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram's security gap...

Takedown-for-hire scammers like OBN are proliferating on Instagram, exploiting the app's slow and often ineffective customer support services and its easily manipulated account reporting systems. https://www.propublica.org/...
2023-03-27 View on X
ProPublica

A look at OBNBrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' accounts, mainly on Instagram, and extorting for “reactivation”

https://www.propublica.org/... … @craigsilverman@mastodon.social : OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram's security gap...